Ninja Gaiden 3 Review

Ninja Gaiden used to be about careful combat for skilled players. Knowing the skill-set inside and out was as important as understanding individual opponents, and digging into the complex mechanics was necessary to succeed. One basic enemy could kill Ryu Hayabusa, and getting him out of each encounter alive was an accomplishment. Ninja Gaiden 3 rejects this identity in an attempt to do something fresh and interesting with its hero.This...

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Gaming's Greatest Guilty Pleasures

The world is full of amazing games yet to be discovered, played and enjoyed. And yet we all find ourselves playing bad games, oldgames and just plain annoying games again and again. It's like some sort of weird compulsion, a psychological need to punish ourselves.So the IGN team gathered together and decided to reveal our gaming guilty pleasures. Harvest Moon Why I Love It  I'm an urban creature. Harvest Moon's...

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Redesigning 3DS

It's not a matter of if, just when -- Nintendo always remixes and reissues its portable systems, so it's inevitable that we'll be getting a new 3DS Lite, or 3DS XL, or 3DS SP Advance Plus or whatever sometime in the future. When that happens, we have a few suggestions for fixes and changes we'd like to see. Here's our latest infographic, Redesigning 3DS. From guaranteed upgrades like the second Circle Pad to off-the-wall ideas like letting the...

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The Six Best-Looking Games for Your New iPad

The new iPad looks a lot like the old iPad. Until you turn it on, that is. Once gamers catch a glimpse of Apple's new high-res "Retina Display" iPad screen, they won't want to go back to the iPad 1 or iPad 2's comparatively blurry displays.The new screen contains four times the number of pixels as the previous iPad. That's a total resolution of 2048-by-1536. This is a higher resolution than 1080p HDTVs, for those keeping score at home.Luckily...

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