Transitional periods often elicit unforeseen, and sporadically- serendipitous events. That’s the premise behind Zakuro (based on Lili Hoshino’s 2006 manga, Otome Yōkai Zakuro), which set during Japan’s Meiji era, reveals the country adjusting to the ...

Whether players are working up a sweat with Wreckateer, a title which combines two casual game darlings- Angry Birds and the Kinect Sensor, or burning calories with Adidas MiCoach, this week’s new releases offer a ...

This week DesertEagle, SeanNOLA, BlueSwim and Jeremy “Lawman” LaMont climb aboard Guns of Icarus’ dirigibles, dig their fingers into Spelunky, visit the Rainbow Moon, stumble around with The Walking Dead: Episode 2 and even careen ...

Since its inception as Bill Walsh College Football in 1993, Electronic Arts interpretation of collegiate athleticism has doggedly attempted to recreate every last minutiae of the sport. From acquiring the NCAA license during the last ...

What is the concept? With consummate coding, a pulsing techno soundtrack, and an elevated difficulty level, players could be forgiven for assuming SideQuest Studios’ Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer and Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype originated from the Land ...

French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once wrote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”. While the novelist surely didn’t use the epigram to refer to a medium which wouldn’t be created for ...

Last year’s release of Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls hoped to revitalize the dungeon crawler on Western shores. Regretfully, the game’s sharp learning curve and utilitarian visuals likely did the genre a disservice. With the ...

A few years ago, a majority of my friends became obsessed with the television series, Lost. When they weren’t arranging their schedule around the release of new episodes, each spent hours analyzing each cryptic reference ...

Whether players prefer to take the field and direct USC to their 34th Rose Bowl appearance in NCAA Football 13 or hack their way through hordes of enemies in Dungeon Fighter LIVE: Fall of Hendon ...

Like an eighth-year undergrad, the shooter often seems ensnared in the coils of stagnancy. Sustained by advancements in visual fidelity and the development of thrill ride-like pacing, the genre’s foremost failing mirrors that of the ...