Review: Bastion

Bastion is a contradiction, a finished work-in-progress. As soon as you begin the game, you will get the feeling that it is unfolding live before your eyes, and that your character’s every move affects… Continue reading →

Review: Shadows of the Damned

In Shadows of the Damned, you’ll be playing as a smooth-talking, badass Mexican named Garcia Hotspur as he travels through the shadowy depths of Hell to rescue his beloved Paula who was abducted… Continue reading →

Review: Dungeon Siege III

Getting rid of the traditional party-based system, deep character customizations, and slower strategic format of its past two games, Dungeon Siege III is a refreshing take on the series that provides you with… Continue reading →

Review: L.A. Noire

One way of knowing whether a film is a success or not is if it manages to engage its audience by sucking them into its world with its use of ambiance, spectacle, and… Continue reading →

Review: Mortal Kombat

Remember playing Mortal Kombat back in the 90s when it dominated arcades and ate your quarters faster than a trip to Vegas? Ever since those glory (and gory) days, the franchise has never… Continue reading →

Review: Rio

Labeled as a multiplayer party game, Rio gives you some of the flavor of the movie in a collection of mini-games that is best played with friends. The game is definitely geared toward… Continue reading →

Review: Rush’n Attack: Ex Patriot

Konami’s classic arcade game Rush’n Attack gets an HD facelift on your Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the game still plays very much like its 1985 predecessor. Rush’n Attack: Ex-Patriot may give… Continue reading →

Review: Stacking

Leave it to a developer like Double Fine to create a game that puts you in a world of Russian matryoshka dolls and lets you harness the simple power of stacking as the… Continue reading →

Review: Breach

When you play a first person shooter game like Breach, you will feel a lot closer to the battlefield than you would if you played any other shooter. Sure, you are still playing… Continue reading →

Review: Bomberman Live: Battlefest

The first time I played a Bomberman game, I was hooked on its multiplayer mode. Bomberman games don’t really have an impressive single player mode, but get some people together in a room,… Continue reading →

Review: Microbot

Microbot is a futuristic twin-stick shooter published by Electronic Arts and currently available on Xbox Live Arcade. In the future, it seems humans don’t have enough white blood cells in their bodies to… Continue reading →

Review: Cthulhu Saves the World

If you were around during the 16bit era when Japanese RPGs were the hottest imports, you’d remember how many hours you might have spent leveling up your party members as you traveled from… Continue reading →

Review: A World of Keflings

If you’re looking for a real-time strategy game that’s simple to play and yet still as engrossing as some of the more well-known titles, look no further than NinjaBee’s A World of Keflings.… Continue reading →

Review: Unbound Saga

Sometimes a game’s storyline has so much potential and yet dies because of weak gameplay. That’s what I thought about when I started playing Unbound Saga for the Xbox Live Arcade. Despite coming… Continue reading →

Review: Marvel Pinball

A few weeks ago, Zen Studios released Pinball FX 2 on Xbox Live Arcade. The game provides a good outlet that lets you play a variety of fun and distinctive pinball tables by… Continue reading →

Review: Splatterhouse

The original Splatterhouse came out in arcades back in 1988, and while it wasn’t a ground-breaking beat ‘em up title, it did gain a cult following due to its controversial graphics and horror… Continue reading →

Review: The UnderGarden

With the sudden influx in casual gaming, more and more companies are developing games for different types of people that may not be inclined to picking up a game controller and playing a… Continue reading →

Review: Pinball FX 2

Arcades and pinball machines aren’t as common as they were a decade ago, so being able to play a game like Pinball FX 2 by Zen Studios, is a great way to experience… Continue reading →

Review: Fallout New Vegas

Get ready to traverse a vast and dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland all over again. If you’ve played Bethesda’s Fallout 3, then you won’t have any trouble transitioning into this game as the gameplay is… Continue reading →