What is the concept? With a retina-searing sense of speed and an incessant succession of death defying jumps, 2010’s Nail’d brought gamers back to an era when racing titles offered doses of big, dumb fun ...
Read More »Akai Katana Review
In European territories, Rising Star Games is a prolific publishing juggernaut, with an output that matches the combined efforts of XSEED, Aksys, Natsume, and Ignition Entertainment. The company’s opening salvo on this side of the ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of June 3rd, 2012
Bang Bang Racing? Katy Perry’s Sweet “Treats”? With E3 in full swing this week, it seems marketers are using euphemisms to draw attention to this weeks titles. Keeping it clean across nearly every platform is ...
Read More »Resistance: Burning Skies Review
Although Sony’s two principal PS3 shooters series were adapted into a pair of PSP titles, substantial changes were required to accommodate the subordinate hardware. From the top-down perspective used to depict Helghast homicide in Killzone: ...
Read More »Podcast 10-7 On the Road to E3 2012
With the Electronic Entertainment Expo just days away, DesertEagle, SeanNOLA, Samurage, BlueSwim and The Lawman share their predictions, hopes, and concerns as the industry prepares to reveal its plans for the coming year. Fortunately, anticipation ...
Read More »Mario Tennis Open Review
Over the years, Camelot Software Planning’s fanciful interpretations of athletic recreations have accrued a legion of devotees. From an inaugural entry in the Everybody’s Golf franchise (known to U.S. players as Hot Shots Golf) to ...
Read More »Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland Review
With playtimes which routinely transcend the thirty-hour mark, it’s not common for role-playing games to deliver a slow burn, engrossing players once the obligatory expositional elements are laid out. For Gust Corporation’s Arland series, the ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of May 27th, 2012
From an add-on which unleashes all kinds of new beasts to challenge Abraham’s sacrificial son in The Binding of Isaac: The Wrath of the Lamb to Harley Quinn’s two-hour epilogue to Batman: Arkham City‘s storyline, ...
Read More »Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Review
Over its decade long legacy, the Ghost Recon franchise has endured a succession of substantial changes. Once a taut, tactics-heavy simulation tasking players with managing multiple teams across vast battlefields, more recent entries in the ...
Read More »Sorcery Review
When Sorcery was first revealed at Sony’s 2010 E3 press conference, the title seemed like the Move’s killer app, allowing players to cast fantastical spells by flicking and twirling the motion-sensing peripheral. Following two years ...
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