As Excitetruck and Mario Kart Wii have shown, Nintendo’s console can deliver an extremely proficient racing game. However, trouble often ensues when third-party developers try to port their graphically-rich titles onto the Wii platform. The ...

Traditionally, the third week of November is one of the busiest weeks in gaming, with publishers releasing a deluge of new titles just in time for Black Friday sales. Thankfully, this year is no different, ...

If only my senior class trip was as exciting as Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble. Pitifully, my pugilistic catharsis was limited to dropping a handful of quarters down the coin slots of Double Dragon and Final ...

When franchises offer an annual iteration for five consecutive years, stagnancy is a near inevitability.  Few series can offer a continual improvement in gameplay, graphical richness, and depth over extended durations. While the Infinity Ward ...

For something as intangible and unchangeable as the past, it is so very natural to wish we could change it. Artists of all kinds love to play “What if?” because the fiction that follows feels ...

When the original Touchmaster was released in 2007, its skillful collection of twenty-three card and puzzle games occupied the cartridge slot on my Nintendo DS for an extended duration. The title often became a staple ...

In the beginning, there was only “Game.”  In time, Game begat Role Playing Game.   Role Playing Game begat Strategy Role Playing Game who, in turn, finally begat Giant Robot Role Playing Game.  In the family ...

After thirty years of gaming and hundreds of written reviews, I am still having a difficult time putting the experience of Dragon Age into words.  A portion of the problem is related to the game’s ...

This week’s trivia: In the 1980’s, a certain coin-op game gained notoriety after two young men died within minutes of archiving a high score. Name this legendary game AND its smiling antagonist. 360Call of Duty: ...

Many gamers have described the sporadic nightmare induced by a late-night gaming session. Although, I’ve typically been immune to the condition, one recent evening’s nocturnal hours were filled with Ubisoft’s rabbids. It’s not that the ...