From a Bomberman clone with a moniker that pushes the E10+ envelope to MouseCraft’s deft fusion of Lemmings and Tetris, this week’s inventory of new releases offers plenty of eccentric titles. PC players will have ...

Like any enthusiast-based conventions, this year’s Anime Expo will have several essential events. For gamers and aural aficionados, this year’s rePlay: Symphony of Heroes promises to be one of those occasions, with a seventy piece ...

Not long ago, the shooter was one of the most visceral and engaging genres around, consistently delivering frantic firefights that outmatched the best summer blockbusters. But over time, those once-invigorating action sequences began to lose ...

Not long ago, it was nearly impossible for Westerners to play a localized visual novel. As former Nippon Ichi Software president (and now CEO of Idea Factory International) Haru Akenaga once explained, SCEA wasn’t interested ...

Lock and load! This week’s itinerary of new releases offers a number of remarkable titles. From the integration of two new levels and bosses in Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, the retro-inspired charms of Shovel ...

The on-rail shooter genre is a particularly contentious genre. While some take pleasure in the adrenaline rush derived by using potent weaponry to plow through processions of angry foes, others have little patience for linear ...

The old cliché “variety is the spice of life” has been the driving concept behind in a number of noteworthy games. Early coin-ops such as Tron or Gorf were conceived around the notion that an ...

From a role-playing game built for the PSP (End of Serenity) to a visual novel that’s set 150 years before the events in BlazBlue (XBlaze Code: Embryo), this week’s roster of new releases offers a ...

Although Nippon Ichi’s internally developed titles span a wide swath of genres, they habitually abide by one near-universal principal. While seemingly simple on the surface, each game conceals an enormous amount of intricacy. The latest ...

E3 is four day event in which you endure an unremitting assault on the senses to experience fleeting moments of elation. Between the deafening dub-step, pushy PR people, and crowds of courtesy-deficient attendees, the show ...