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LittleBigPlanet PSP by Phil Harris | 28-01-10

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Could Sackboy make the transition to Sony's compact and bijou PSP after playing about on the PS3 a year past? Will the game still be as playable and loveable as before? Yes! So that's this review over but just in case you're not sure of the phenomena...

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For the Love of... Vagrant Story by Michael Black | 26-01-10

Anyone who played Final Fantasy XII will instantly recognise that Vagrant Story had the same director, Yasumi Matsuno. Sights, sounds and everything else in between. He’s the reason you can pick up Vagrant Story today and still see a beautiful game, despite how pixellated textures can appear. Remarkable for little touches like how the mouths actually moved when people spoke during in-game cut-scenes. Even if they were speaking with comic book speech bubbles, it’s hard to think of another PS1 game that animated the mouth movements, generally opting for head bobbing instead.

Killer Instinct – A Statement on Violence and the Videogames Industry on All Consoles, PS2, PC, Mac, Linux, DS, PSP, Other Portable, iPhone, Java Games, Other Mobile, Free

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Killer Instinct – A Statement on Violence and the Videogames Industry by Editorial | 25-01-10

As voices of the games industry, we are the first to admit that there are violent videogames around and that the interactive nature of this medium provides a unique opportunity to take personal responsibility in carrying out acts of decapitation, maiming and murder. Doom was a horrific slaught'-em-up back in its day, while Mortal Kombat relished in its variations on carnage and the less that can be said for Carmageddon and Postal the better. Importantly though, these games are in the minority in an industry which churns out thousands of titles a year, with around 3% (in 2007) of those being video nasties. For every game that takes ultraviolence as a means to replace gameplay, there are ten that use violence as means to illustrate moral choices (the Fable series being one example), or to show a clear separation between good and bad in a plot. This tactic has been used in all kinds of media over the decades, and if anything it promotes virtuous living and responsible choices due to the playable character always being the hero.

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Tekken 6 PAL Regional Finals by Sean Bamberger | 05-01-10

The Tekken series is probably one of the most popular and respectable virtual fighters in the world, neck and neck along with the Streetfighter iterations. Korea has its own show dedicated to it named Tekken Crash!, where skilled competitors battle it out for prizes and personal glory, and the rest of the Far East are not far behind in terms of coverage and rabidly dedicated fanbases. The internet is a treasure trove of information about each and every character, with its own terminology used to describe moves and a lot of emphasis on 'Frame Data' (how long each moves takes to perform) and stratagems to beat any possible opponent. Simply put, Tekken is big business.

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Tekken 6 by Sean Bamberger | 29-12-09

Tekken 6 is the latest offering in a series which has always been seen as the slow, clunky and chunky foil to the flash-bang-kapow Street Fighter (SF) games. Whereas SF had the player jumping 15 feet high across the screen, lobbing balls of flaming goop and turning themselves into a living ball of electricity the best you could manage out of Tekken was a puff of sparkles every time you pulled off a well timed punch or kick. Glitzy it is not, but the amount of depth and tactical know-how required to master the game (especially in later iterations when the hardware finally managed to catch up with the developers intentions) made Tekken the thinking man's fighter.