Monday, November 5, 2012
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a trend that’s been sweeping the gaming industry. Lately, we’ve gotten a lot of re-releases and HD re-mastering of classic titles like…
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Good: Burnout Paradise gets a spiritual successor. The Bad: Handling quirks and texture pop-in are problematic. The Ugly: Menus are sometimes illogically laid-out. Criterion’s second reboot…
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Monday, October 29, 2012
2K Sports has such a stranglehold on the virtual basketball playground that it’s not even fair. EA has not even bothered to release a product to market for…
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Monday, October 22, 2012
The Good: Sid Meier does XCOM?!? Sign me up! The Bad: Special missions rely on cheap scripted events. Occasionally unforgiving difficulty. The Ugly: Nothing This is one…
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Forza series has gone on strong for seven years now, and while it may be my favorite sim racing series ever, I also must admit that the…
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Monday, October 15, 2012
One of the hardest aspects of being a reviewer is not giving in to your biases. Having said that, I think the world of soccer video games is…
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
I described Dishonored to somebody a few days ago as “Thief, if Garrett could fight his way out of a wet paper bag.” Now that I’ve cleared the…
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
As far as I’m concerned, the Origins package is worth it for an arcade-perfect version of Marvel Super Heroes (MSH), but that’s probably the nostalgia talking. I put…
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Monday, October 8, 2012
There was a time when the Resident Evil games were actually scary. Since the first title’s release in 1996, the series became the industry’s equivalent of a horror…
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Sometimes simple ideas yield impressive and unexpected results. LittleBigPlanet is such an example, a veritable phenomenon. At first glance it’s a pretty straightforward puzzle platformer, the kind we’ve…
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