“Have you played Titanfall?” This week PC and Xbox One players will finally be able to answer that query with a resounding, “yes!” as the release of the highly anticipated shooter draws near. For Xbox ...

A number of news articles revealed that 2010’s Lords of Shadow nearly wasn’t a Castlevania game. Purportedly, an early build veered too far from franchise canon- causing Konami to ask for the removal of their ...

Seemingly, Retro City Rampage developer Brian Provinciano is a hexadecimal-chanting sorcerer. After alchemizing a provisional NES development kit back in 2002, he went on code Grand Theftendo– a game which miraculously adapted Rockstar’s urban sandbox ...

On the surface, Go! Go! Nippon! My First Trip to Japan‘s plotline seems like a setup for a lively eroge title. After the visual novel’s protagonist befriends siblings Mokoto and Akira while online, he’s invited ...

Save for of Let’s Go Tower Defense Play, those perpetual fourth graders from South Park, Colorado haven’t enjoyed much critical success in the interactive realm. From Chef’s Luv Shack– a lukewarm Mario Party rip-off to ...

As the ever-growing convoy of action anthologies such as the Killzone, Ratchet & Clack, Sly Cooper, and Zone of the Enders collections have demonstrated, high-definition remasters appear to be profitable. Naturally, publishers have been expanding ...

The timeworn cliché, “you only have one chance to make a first impression” often doesn’t apply to the game industry. Quite often, a developer shows off a slice of an alpha, which seems to be ...

Level-5’s Guild01 was undoubtedly a curious concept, bundling a quartet of smaller games developed by Japanese gaming luminaries such as Goichi Suda, Yasumi Matsuno, and Yoot Saito. Whereas the compilation was released as a single ...

This week’s list of new game releases unites a diverse array of protagonists- from Lords of Shadow 2’s The Man Formerly Known as Gabriel Belmont to Plant vs. Zombies’ slightly unstable survivalist, Crazy Dave. Meanwhile, ...

Robert’s Take: First introduced in Japan in 1998, D3 Publisher’s Simple series of budget-priced games has become a modest phenomenon. With an assortment of nearly four hundred titles spread across ten different hardware platforms, the ...