Puzzle Kingdoms for the Wii/DS and PC. Developer: Infinite Interactive, Publisher: Zoo Games When Puzzle Quest was released in 2007, I became unspeakably addicted to its amalgam of wispy role-playing storyline merged with Bejeweled-inspired combat. ...
Read More »New Releases 6/7-6/13: Time Traveling Edition
Apparently, there’s no consistency in the world of video sports. Why else would Virtua Tennis 2009 be released on the same day as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10? For those unwilling to ponder that conundrum, ...
Read More »TGP: The Tech-Gaming Podcast, World 1-1
DesertEagle, TideGear, and SeanNOLA discuss their E3 favorites, Nintendo impressions, and argue over fighting mechs in our premier episode of TGP- The Tech-Gaming Podcast, recorded live from the E3 show floor.
Read More »Elevated Condemnation- Damnation Reviewed
Damnation for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Developer: Blue Omega, Publisher: Codemasters If there is an afterlife for games, Damnation doesn’t deserve the fate its moniker implies. Sure, the title’s imprudences are numerous- shooting ...
Read More »E3 2009 Photostream
As Dickens famously, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The 2009 Electronic Entertainments Expo (or E3) was a tale of two conventions- the conspicuous gathering at the Los Angeles ...
Read More »A Sparkling Portable RPG- Crimson Gem Saga
Crimson Gem Saga for the Sony PSP. Developer: Matrix Software, Publisher: Atlus USA Recently, a colleague in the gaming press lamented over the stagnancy of the role playing gaming. He claimed that the genre remained ...
Read More »Cross Edge Reviewed
Cross Edge for the Playstation 3. Developer: Compile Heart, Publisher: NIS America For gaming geeks, there are few moments as pleasingly delicious as the crossover. The hybridization of two fictional universes in a single title ...
Read More »New Releases 6/1-6/6: Attack of the Moorhen Edition
Never heard of the Moorhuhn? He started life as a German promotional tool for Johnny Walker whiskey, starring in a Duck Hunt-like game in 1999. In the early 2000’s he had a comic book, hit ...
Read More »The Blox That Rox- Boom Blox Bash Party Reviewed
Boom Blox Bash Party for the Wii. Developer: EA Los Angeles, Publisher: Electronic Arts Regrettably, the Nintendo Wii suffered from a forlorn infancy. The console subsisted on an irregular first-party release schedule for the first ...
Read More »Egg-citing:Toki Tori Reviewed
Toki Tori for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Developer: Two Tribes, Publisher: Chillingo Why do we root for the underdog? We do because there’s not a single person who’s never felt left out or abandoned in some ...
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