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“Bigger, Badder and Better!” How many sequels have laid claim to that moniker? Probably too many to count. The more appropriate question would be how many have actually delivered. The answer? Very few. While most of the time, sequels do ... read more ›
Searching for the proper metaphor for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2, the best I can conjure is a glass of milk. There's nothing really wrong with it ... read more ›
One of the things that make Gameloft one of the top mobile game developers in the world right now is their mix of ports and original titles that are both well made and great to look at. This latest ... read more ›
Fighting games are a dime a dozen. For every Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, there’s a bushel full of others like Tekken, Virtua FIghter, Dead or Alive, and many, many more. The fans of the genre are not just casual ... read more ›
Translating the tome that is author George R.R. Martin's masterwork A Song of Ice and Fire is a task that must be both daunting and erratic. In its ... read more ›
Sniper Elite V2 is a remake of Rebellions 2005 game Sniper Elite (also known as Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945 ). It takes place in the same location and timeframe set in ... read more ›
Max Payne can't even find peace in a graveyard. A quiet moment of remembrance, dour and dusted in snow, is ... read more ›
We're of the firm opinion that your time is too precious, too valuable to be spent reading a full review for a game that was already reviewed many, many years ago. What's the point of applying a score to a game that's old enough to be enrolled ... read more ›
Now, Minecraft comes exclusively to the Microsoft Xbox, with Markus “Notch” Persson, the brains behind Minecraft, at the helm. Read the rest of this entry » ... read more ›
Datura is named after the plant, which is known to have hallucination-inducing effects. Players will also have that same feeling of difficulty in distinguishing fantasy from virtual reality in this new game from Team Plastic for the Playstation 3. ... read more ›
Decked out with garish signs and weatherworn workers, the refueling platform looks more like a truck stop than a sophisticated ... read more ›
In my still-young career as a games writer, I’ve had the opportunity to review some triple-A titles that demanded a lot of attention to detail. Some heralded franchises have passed through my gaming systems since I joined GameFocus, and building ... read more ›
Prototype was a free-roaming action game set in a populated city where a strange virus has given your character scary and destructive powers. Prototype 2 is also a free-roaming action game set in a populated ... read more ›
Love makes you act a little crazy. I once took a bus interstate to meet up with a woman I’d never seen face to face so we could stay in the same cheap hostel room ... read more ›
Mortal Kombat comes to the Playstation Vita with this new and exciting fighting game from the beloved cult classic series! Mortal Kombat is one of the premier and most popular one-on-one fighting games from the nineties, third only to ... read more ›
The fighting genre hasn’t really excelled in the portable market. Sure, there have been some valiant efforts to translate the fast-twitch, combo-pounding gameplay onto previous generations, but fighting has never, you know, made it when ... read more ›
Superhero games have been in the spotlight over the last few years. While the subgenre didn’t have the best reputation in the past, it certainly picked up speed with titles such as Batman Arkham Asylum and Infamous. Activision’s take on ... read more ›
Naruto. The series seems to have been around for decades now, but is only just over ten years old. How times have flown. Naruto has seen hundreds of Manga and dozens of seasons of the Anime, not ... read more ›
“The Raven” is the title of, perhaps, Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous literary piece. In the film of the same title, John Cusack takes on the role of the troubled poet, but is cast in a completely ... read more ›
There has been a lot of focus on games that bring deep storylines, shocking twists, well developed characters, and ambiguous endings, which shows how far video games have come as a narrative medium. However, there are still those games ... read more ›
