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Review: Sonic Free Riders – Grab Air Tricks With Sonic & Co. -StickTwiddlers

So if you are like me and went out and bought Kinect on launch, you will want to know what games to get and which to avoid. Over the next few days I have the pleasure of reviewing a fair few Kinect launch titles to keep our Twiddlers on the right path.

The first title on the hit list is Sonic Free Riders, which is one of the very few games out at the moment that is not a mini-game compilation, a dance game or a keep-fit title. So let’s get started and see how Sonic and co. do in the world of the human controller.

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Five Forgotten Firsts in Video Games History

Certain video games firsts have become common knowledge over the years, while some incredible feats have fallen into the dustbin of time - TechStomper has dug up five of those forgotten firsts.

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Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Review – A Pirates Life For Me - Pixelbytegaming

Zach reviewed Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii for PC. While it has some issues, it is still an adventure worth having and a great showcase of how the series can evolve.

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Sega Explains Why Reviews of its Japanese Games Have Improved as Metaphor Sold Better than Expected

Sega published some interesting insight on how the company sees the success of its games including Metaphor: ReFantazio.

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Profchaos63d ago (Edited 63d ago )

Look at sales from big western studios like EA and Ubisoft they are building their games for "modern audiences" who are not interested in actually paying for them. Then crying foul when sales inevitably don't meet expectations.

Sega builds games the way they want to look at rgg yeah we want to build a pirate Yakuza game. Sega board thumbs up.

I'm thrilled to see a Sega revival of late I think their leadership has the right attitude again

jznrpg63d ago

There have always been great Japanese games even if reviewers didn’t respond favorably to them. There was less investment in them for the west during the PS3 gen for whatever reasons but even then there was some great games.