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This UMD should've been redshirted.

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series is certainly off to a painful start. The award winning book's film adaptation has been greeted with some less than favorable reviews. The movie can take solace in the fact that as bad as it is, it's not the worst adaptation of the book, an honor firmly held by video games. Thanks to the A2M developed The Golden Compass for the Nintendo DS, literature fans can be even more frustrated at the half-baked rehashing of a once great novel.

A championship season or a rebuilding year?

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When students from DigiPen showed off their student project Narbacular Drop to a room full of Valve personell, they probably didn't expect that they would not only be hired, but given a budget to expand that idea into something as special as we see with Portal. It's quirky, clever, polished, and presented with a spark of a subtly evil humor that it's hard not to enjoy the quick romp through Aperture Laboratories. The problem is that it is so quick. Players wanting to get their money's worth will

There's trouble in Eastern Europe. The Delta Force is called in, inserting a three-man team into the field to thwart a terrorist threat bent on creating instability in the region. You control that three-man team, which includes a point man, a sniper, and a bomb-diffusing engineer that also has the ability to heal teammates and call down air strikes.

Still the best portable baseball game around?

Dinosaurs. Fearsome fiends from an ancient age, they walked the earth as tyrant kings. They lorded over all, their mastery of the planet unchallenged by any other beings – until a lowly plumber came and tamed them all for sport. Reduced to simple, saddled beasts of burden, the once mighty creatures nonetheless cooperated with their new, red-capped master, bearing him forth to victory in Super Mario World.

Don't touch this squirrel's nuts, but feel free to whack his balls.

Who would've thought animal abuse would be so boring?

How many characters does it take to make a decent game?

The future is one bright, funky place.

Potter holds his own on the Game Boy Advance.

The refinement of the drive of your life.

Star Wars: Republic Commando stars elite killer clones and towering Wookiees. LucasArts' military experiment is good, not great.

Kevin Garnett must own stock in EA. Sure, he's one of the best players in the NBA, but even "The Big Ticket" has never dominated a court like he does in NBA Street V3. First you might see KG go off the "heezay", "footay" or even off the "bootay", next thing you know he's taking off from beyond the free throw line, rolling the rock along his arms Globetrotter-style, alley ooping the ball to himself -- while already in the air -- then finishing the dunk off with a spin. The letters KG appear autograph style on the screen, and Garnett even gives you a little dance to rub it in.

I wanted to make this review short and sweet, but it's hard to stop writing, even when excluding facts that could potentially contaminate an exceptionally well thought-out gaming experience. There's just so much to say. Half-Life 2 is, simply put, the best single-player shooter ever released for the PC. It does so many things right in so many ways that it might be possible to write a thesis on the topic of Half-Life 2 compared to other single player shooters. What Valve has created is simply a m

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America gets its first online wrestler! Does it live up to the hype?

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