Growing up, I had a love hate relationship with 989 Sports and its various franchises. While some years I loved ShootOut and GameDay and FaceOff, other years they just left me cold. As time went on, I would look more towards EA or Sega's alternatives. But after playing the amazing MLB on the PSP, I truly hoped that this was a turning point for 989 and I was eagerly awaiting NBA. Read More.
As much as sport titles, first person shooters, RPGs and adventure games are fun and satisfying to play, handhelds also need titles that simply provide quick-fix entertainment without heavy-handed stories, long texts to scroll through and 9 innings when 3 will do. Read More.
Canadian game studio Digital Extremes has teamed up with publisher Groove Games (of "Playboy: The Mansion" infamy) to produce Pariah, a fantastical first-person shooter set in earth's distant future. Like a slew of FPS' before it, the game uses the ubiquitous and dated Unreal engine. Read More.
Canadian game studio Digital Extremes has teamed up with publisher Groove Games (of "Playboy: The Mansion" infamy) to produce Pariah, a fantastical first-person shooter set in earth's distant future. Like a slew of FPS' before it, the game uses the ubiquitous and dated Unreal engine. Read More.
Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular games from the arcade era of the 90's. The fighting system was innovative and the brutal ways to kill your enemies "with fatality" were challenging and fun to watch. Over the years, Midway has released a few new titles to continue the franchise, notably MK Deadly Alliance, Deception, among others. Read More.
Less than a year ago, Microsoft and Phantagram gave us Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, a game that took many gamers by surprise and built a strong and loyal following almost immediately. While not the over-the-top success of a Halo or a Jade Empire, Kingdom Under Fire's success came from the simple fact that it filled a void in many gamers' libraries. Read More.
Halo 2 is easily the most popular title on the Xbox, and what else could fans ask for then a collection of new maps for this legendary game? Bungie gave the Halo fans what they wanted when they announced the release of new maps, available in both downloadable and hardcopy format. Read More.
I'm a 30 year old male. I rip through Mature-rated games like candy, completely unfazed in the least. I watch Unrated movies from France and Europe. Late night TV has nothing on me. And I confess; I became a giant freaky mess of goofiness when I found out that there would be a sequel to Katamari Damacy. Read More.
As a reviewer, it is hard (and mostly unheard of) to give a sequel a higher score than its predecessor. In this case, factor in that the predecessor in question is a landmark title like Burnout 3: Takedown and that this iteration simply builds upon greatness and you'd have a good case against scoring it higher. Read More.
I still remember quite vividly the day my friends and I picked up the original Ape Escape game for the Playstation. I remember coming home and hoping that all the previews I'd read were right. To me Ape Escape looked like a children's game. I was hoping the articles that had previewed the title using words like "innovative and "defining" hadn't led me astray. Read More.
As a reviewer, it is hard (and mostly unheard of) to give a sequel a higher score than its predecessor. In this case, factor in that the predecessor in question is a landmark title like Burnout 3: Takedown and that this iteration simply builds upon greatness and you'd have a good case against scoring it higher. Read More.
Devastation could have been a great game, but it is deeply flawed in fundamental ways and is instead just another first-person shooter thrown into the pile of mediocrity. There are some really interesting elements of this game that make it worth mentioning. Read More.
I love discovering a good game. You know, the ones that have been out for a while and that you've never really payed a lot of mind to only to chance upon them as a fluke and wonder how you could of lived without them? Well, Champions of Norrath is exactly that kind of game. Read More.
Sid Meier is a legend in the world of strategy games. He has become one of the world's most respected names in the gaming industry, with both the Civilization and Pirates franchises under his belt. He stands alongside other great strategy developers like Rick Goodman (Age of Empires, Co-founder of Ensemble Studios), and continues to push the strategy envelope higher at every release. Read More.
Gamers who enjoyed playing Commandos 3's predecessors will have a blast playing this recent addition to the series. Filled with action packed gameplay, Commandos 3 is divided into three campaigns. These campaigns range in locales from the Normandy Beaches on D-day, to the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin Germany. Read More.
