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This Week in Review is hunting Trophies

Comments (2) by Ross Miller Aug 8th 2008 7:30PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

If you haven't caught wind yet, our friends at PS3 Fanboy have become a bit obsessed with Trophies -- we always knew they'd be addicting. If you need some fix, check out their Trophy Portal full of Trophy lists and guides. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

PlayStation 3

• The Last Guy goes to America (Hands-on
• Legendary (Hands-on)
• Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli (Hands-on)
• WipEout HD (Hands-on)

Continue reading This Week in Review is hunting Trophies

All our E3 2008 impressions are belong to you!

Comments (36) by Ross Miller Aug 1st 2008 5:25PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, E3, Mobile

We thought it'd be best to start off the month of August by cleaning house and collecting all our E3 impressions from around the Joystiq Network into one easy-to-peruse guide. In case you missed anything (and there's a pretty good chance you did), check out all of our impressions from E3 2008.

Multiplatform

• Age of Booty (E3 hands-on)
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (E3 hands-on)
• Dark Void (E3 hands-on)
• Dead Space (E3 hands-on)
• Fallout 3 (E3 hands-on)
• Far Cry 2 (E3 hands-on)
• Flock (E3 hands-on)
• HAWX (E3 hands-on)
• Left 4 Dead (E3 hands-on)
• Mega Man 9 (E3 hands-on)
• Mirror's Edge (E3 hands-on)
• Neopets Puzzle Adventures (E3 hands-on)
• Puzzle Quest Galactric (E3 hands-on)
• Red Faction: Guerilla (E3 hands-on)
• Resident Evil 5 (E3 hands-on)
• Sonic Unleashed (E3 eyes-on)
• Silent Hill: Homecoming (E3 hands-on)
• Stormrise (E3 eyes-on: Stormrise)
• This is Vegas (E3 impressions)
• Tomb Raider Underworld (E3 hands-on)
• Tom Clancy's EndWar (E3 hands-on)
• Wheelman (E3 impressions)

Continue reading All our E3 2008 impressions are belong to you!

This Week in Review is preparing for the storm

Comments (9) by Ross Miller Jul 11th 2008 8:55PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

It's the calm before the storm, and next week, we're not looking forward to compiling that behemoth of a hands-on roundup. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Nintendo Wii

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (hands-on)
• Skate (feet-on)
• Top Spin 3 (Review)
• SPOGS Racing (Review)
• King of Monsters (VC Monday Madness)

Continue reading This Week in Review is preparing for the storm

This Week in Review is evolution, baby

Comments (4) by Ross Miller Jul 4th 2008 7:00PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Oh yes, we got to play Spore. The entire thing. With Will Wright providing backseat commentary. We also got some time with the Wrath of the Lich King's Death Knight, and DS Fanboy decided to play Homie Rollerz (so you don't have to). Check out all of our impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

PC

• American McGee's Grimm (hands-on)
• Spore (the whole thing) (hands-on)
• Wrath of the Lich King (Death Knight hands-on)

Continue reading This Week in Review is evolution, baby

This Week in Review is Left 4 Dead ... again

Comments (11) by Ross Miller Jun 27th 2008 8:00PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Sure, we got to see some Call of Duty the Fifth this week, but the big fun was to be had with Valve's Left 4 Dead. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Multiplatform

• Left 4 Dead (hands-on)
• Madden NFL 09 (hands-on)
• Legendary (hands-on)
• Call of Duty: World at War (impressions)
• Battlefield: Bad Company (Metareview)

Continue reading This Week in Review is Left 4 Dead ... again

This Week in Review wants to rock (ROCK!)

Comments (5) by Ross Miller Jun 20th 2008 4:00PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Continue reading This Week in Review wants to rock (ROCK!)

This Week in Review is sneaking ... and stuff

Comments (66) by Ross Miller Jun 14th 2008 7:30PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

No time to talk, must sneak. Check out all of our impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Metal Gear Solid 4

• Metareview
• Nega-review
• War has changed: a veteran's MGS4 experience
• You have rookie eyes: a first-timer's MGS4 experience

Continue reading This Week in Review is sneaking ... and stuff

This Week in Review is just a little different

Comments (7) by Ross Miller May 31st 2008 8:00PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Mac, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

In one of the most interesting case studies since Galileo tested Aristotle's law of gravity, two console versions of Quake Wars were released this week. But, like identical twins separated at birth, their development rendered different results. Take a look for yourself. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Multiplatform

• Far Cry 2 (hands-on)
• Quake Wars (Metareview)
• Mass Effect (Big Versus)
• Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode One (in-depth, Big Versus)

Continue reading This Week in Review is just a little different

This Week in Review is still in love with Sporky

Comments (3) by Ross Miller May 23rd 2008 6:55PM

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

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Apologies to everyone, but we're still in that "blind adulation" phase of our relationship with Sporky, the cute little abomination from Hell we made in Spore. Also receiving love this week is M-rated MMO (or MMMO) Age of Conan, a plethora of WiiWare reviews and a surprisingly positive outlook for Alone in the Dark. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

PC

• Age of Conan: The pros and cons
• Joystiq hands-on: Spore Creature Creator and the birth of Sporky

Continue reading This Week in Review is still in love with Sporky

This Week in Review is overstuffed

Comments (8) by Ross Miller May 17th 2008 7:00AM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

We're way over-stuffed this week thanks to a plethora of Gamers Day shenanigans this week, not to mention the launch of WiiWare. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

PlayStation 3
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Finished Game Hands-on)

Xbox 360
Ninja Gaiden II (Impressions)
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Impressions)
Penny Arcade Adventures (Impressions)
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (Impressions)
Too Human (Impressions)
Assault Heroes 2 (XBLA in Brief)

Gallery: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots

Continue reading This Week in Review is overstuffed

This Week in Review visits LittleBigPlanet

Comments (34) by Ross Miller May 10th 2008 8:00AM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Sure, there was Europe's PlayStation Day event, but our favorite Sony news of the week was PS3 Fanboy's hands-on time with the most exciting, most adorable, most user-generated, most sackboy-prevalent game coming to the PS3. Now that's a lot of mosts. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

PlayStation 3

• Haze (Demo hands-on)
• LittleBigPlanet (Hands-on)
• Super Stardust HD (Versus mode hands-on)

Gallery: LittleBigPlanet

Continue reading This Week in Review visits LittleBigPlanet

This Week in Review gets hijacked

Comments (35) by Ross Miller May 2nd 2008 9:30PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

Not even Sierra's Spring Event, a lineup of all the company's upcoming games (Ghostbusters!) could steal even a glint of the spotlight from Rockstar's behemoth, Viva Pinata. In fact, it's all we (and everyone else) can seem to talk about. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network with this week in review:

Viva Pinata*

• Viva Pinata impressions: A fistful of firsts (Xbox 360)
• Viva Pinata impressions: A stranger in Liberty City
• Impressions: VP online multiplayer (Xbox 360)
• Nega-review: Viva Pinata
  

Continue reading This Week in Review gets hijacked

This Week in Review isn't snaking either way

Comments (8) by Ross Miller Apr 25th 2008 11:30PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

We've had our hands full today mulling over what we should play -- Mario Kart Wii or Metal Gear Online, both titles we weren't expecting until the weekend. We were going to use the snaking joke regardless of the headlining game, but then we realized that you will not be snaking in either game.

We've got a rather hefty This Week in Review today. Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Nintendo Wii

• Mario Kart Wii (Review, Impressions, Controller)
• Deca Sports (hands-on)
• River City Ransom (Virtual Console)
• Phantasy Star III (Virtual Console)
• Brawl Stage of the Week: Super Mario World

Continue reading This Week in Review isn't snaking either way

This Week in Review has a Nintendo overload

Comments (5) by Ross Miller Apr 19th 2008 5:00PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

We had quite a bit of fun at Nintendo's Media Summit this year checking out the new DS, Wii and WiiWare titles. Enjoy our impressions from the event, including several WiiWare launch titles (Major League Eating!). While we keep re-reading the amazing "Cooking Mama 2" letter, check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Nintendo WiiWare

• Joystiq impressions: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (WiiWare)
• Joystiq hands-on: LostWinds (WiiWare)
• Joystiq hands-on: Major League Eating: The Game (WiiWare)
• Joystiq hands-on: Pop (Wiiware)
• Joystiq impressions: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (WiiWare)
• Joystiq hands-on: World of Goo (WiiWare)

Continue reading This Week in Review has a Nintendo overload

This Week in Review joins the Brotherhood of Steel

Comments (6) by Ross Miller Apr 11th 2008 9:30PM

Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360

We had some big items this week, including some time with Fallout 3, a video walkthrough of the upcoming Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack and the new Warhawk expansion (not to mention a metareview of the indie darling Mario Kart Wii). Check out all of our hands-on impressions and reviews from the Joystiq Network this week:

Multiplatform

• Fallout 3 (Xbox 360/PS3/PC; Impressions)
• Baja (Xbox 360/PS3; Hands-on)

Continue reading This Week in Review joins the Brotherhood of Steel

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