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Tearaway PS Vita Review: The Paper World That Uses Every Button You Forgot
Media Molecule’s papercraft adventure is the game the Vita was secretly designed for: rear pad, cameras and all, turned into a fairy tale.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss PS Vita Review: A Full Drake Adventure in Your Pocket
Bend Studio’s launch flagship put a complete Uncharted on a cartridge — touchscreen homework and all. We judge the adventure underneath.
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Gravity Rush PS Vita Review: Falling Never Felt This Good
Japan Studio’s gravity-shifting adventure: the most joyful traversal on any handheld, in the city Hekseville built to be fallen through.
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Persona 4 Golden PS Vita Review: A School Year You Will Never Forget
Atlus’s enhanced masterpiece judged on its home platform: the definitive edition of a great RPG, and the game that justifies the Vita on its own.
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Vectrex Hidden Gems: 10 Deep Cuts From the Vector Vault
A trench run older than its fame, pinball in light, two footballs, the light-pen twins, a submarine rescue and three homebrew landmarks: ten deep cuts beyond the famous names.
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The Vectrex Homebrew Scene in 2026: New Carts for a Vector Relic
Vector Vaders to Vector Pilot, Dondzila to the Vectrex Academy: a survey of the second library — the homebrew scene that gave a 1984 console a release calendar.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Vectrex Review: The Captain’s Arithmetic
The classic sector-defence campaign with a glowing first-person viewscreen: defend the bases, mind the energy, and plan for the mothership.
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Web Wars Vectrex Review: The Shooter That Collected Instead
Fly a cosmic hawk down a great web, capture twenty species for your trophy room, and shoot only what guards them: the collecting shooter before collecting was a genre.
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Pole Position Vectrex Review: Fuji, Rebuilt in Light
Namco’s qualifying-and-grid classic rebuilt as a vector game: the honest Pole Position, with Mount Fuji presiding over a circuit of light.
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Hyperchase Vectrex Review: An Endless Highway Drawn in Light
The library’s driving game: a windscreen view, true perspective traffic and the analogue stick’s finest early argument.