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Fallout: New Vegas somehow manages to have even more technical problems than Fallout 3 did, but its great characters and setting still shine through.

Nintendo and Good-Feel stab straight at the cute center of your brain in this adorable and addictive platformer.

Medal of Honor's derivative style is cool for a while, but it suffers from too many technical issues to last.

Def Jam Rapstar provides a solid home base for hip-hop-loving rhythm game fans.

Deeply engaging characters and mostly solid action combine in Ninja Theory's latest effort.

Comic Jumper isn't a great game, but it's such a hilarious one that it's still worth seeing from start to finish.

The underlying formula and a handful of good songs still provide some bright moments, but Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock feels all too obligatory to be very exciting.

Sports Champions feels cold and calculated, but it's hard to argue with its solid base of motion-based gameplay.

Reach's expanded multiplayer component offers a huge amount of variety that will keep Halo fans going for a good, long time.

Five dollars is an absurdly low price for the equally absurd, wholesale zombie slaughter in this download.

Few games share Shank's violent enthusiasm, even if it can't carry the whole experience.

Samus Aran's transition to fast-paced third-person action is mostly a smooth one.

It would seem that a change of perspective is all Lara Croft needed to revitalize her tomb-raiding antics.

Kane and Lynch's trek through Shanghai's underworld is astoundingly brief, leaving you just enough time to get a feel for the game's great visual style, but not much else. Also, we experienced a fairly crippling technical issue while testing the Xbox 360 version.

Madden NFL 11 makes the act of getting into a simulation football game a great deal easier, and without removing any of the complexity of the game, to boot.

For $15, there's an awful lot of varied, satisfying multiplayer action in here.

Harmony of Despair's multiplayer design isn't fleshed out well enough to make you forget about the grind.

Top to bottom, this is a totally worthy successor to one of the best strategy games in history.

Look past the dull single-player modes and get online if you want to have a great time racing boats.

DeathSpank can be very charming, but it's rarely much more than that.