Games based on cinematic licenses are a consistently tricky proposition.  For every competent interpretation of a movie, as illustrated by the Chronicles of Riddick titles, players seem to get a handful of awkward adaptations- such ...

Twentieth-century social commentator Will Rogers once wrote, “Many only learn in two ways- one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” For the last four years, Nintendo’s executives have been eagerly attempting ...

Rising from the ashes of a discarded stack of plungers, springs, flippers and drop targets, the pinball phoenix is in the midst of rebirth. With titles as diverse as Crave’s Williams and Gottlieb collections to ...

Forgot about those gold and platinum edition games for a moment; this week’s new release are all about a much more useful material- alloyed steel. From Black Ops‘ collection of light, submachine, and sniper rifles, ...

Regrettably, portable rhythm games are usually at a disadvantage when compared to their console counterparts. With the exception of the faux-fret peripheral for the Nintendo DS iterations of Guitar Hero, handheld titles fail to recreate ...

Even the savviest analyst couldn’t have predicted the impact Harmonix would have on gaming. While some might have forecasted 2005’s Guitar Hero launching an industry of plastic guitars and rhythm games in the West, few ...

As the most recent releases from NIS America superbly illustrates, becoming an Earth-saving superhero is no easy task. Yet, we’ve devised a way to make the process just a bit easier. To win one of ...

After spending the last four years strumming down note highways with a plastic six-string, 2009’s DJ Hero offered a refreshing reprieve. Sure, the three colored buttons on the mock-turntable were recontextualized fretboard buttons, but the ...

Following the precedent of every other medium, we are beginning to see a comprehensive chronicling of interactive entertainment. While game history is often structured around specific hardware generations, there has also been a number of ...

With a rivalry older than Ken and Ryu’s, a few of this week’s new releases reinvigorate a classic competition. Yes, it’s the 80’s all over again as Atari and Intellivision restage their eternal struggle on ...