Growing up, owning your own pinball machine was an indicator of success.  I recall spending countless afternoons in an affluent friend’s garage taking turns on his family’s beloved Captain Fantastic table. Having neither the assets ...

While the notion of time travel is a popular motif in gaming, only a handful of titles have effectively exploited the concept. For every game like Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask or Braid, whose central ...

As much as the mainstream media would like to portray gamers as Mountain Dew fueled, attention deficit disorder-riddled misfits, this week’s new releases would paint a contradictory picture. With entries based on crime-novelist James Patterson, ...

Arguably, one of the best things to happen to the Guitar Hero series has been the creation of the Rock Band franchise. Without a robust competitor, Activision’s seminal series might still be mired in awkward ...

Undoubtedly, one of the most reinvented franchises within the gaming industry must be the Need for Speed series. The title’s 1994 commencement utilized the power of the 3DO to create a graphically impressive, realistic driving ...

Raven Squad for the Xbox 360/PC. Developer: Evolved Games, Publisher: Southpeak Games ESRB: T In gaming, warfare is usually presented in one of two distinctive perspectives. Titles like Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty ...

WET for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Developer: A2M, Publisher: Bethesda Softworks ESRB: M Something sinister is going on at the Artificial Mind and Movement production labs. It seems the ominously named developers have ...

Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Wii. Developed by Retro Studios, Publisher by Nintendo ESRB: T Sci-fi should balance realism with fiction in a way that is fantastic enough to pull you in, and believable enough ...

DiRT 2 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3. Developer: Codemasters, Publisher: Codemasters ESRB: T During the late 90’s, when most gamers immersed themselves in the depths of the Gran Turismo series, I found a worthy ...

Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Wii. Developer: Vanillaware, Publisher: Ignition ESRB: T Having grown up on a steady diet of 2D masterpieces that ranged from Gunstar Heroes to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, I ...