This week publisher THQ releases three new titles, in their ongoing attempt to dominate shelf space. While Frontlines: Fuel of War and Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed may be worthy of your coffers (we ...
Read More »Weekly Roundup: Good For You, Good For Me, It’s GDC!
The Game Developers Conference has come a long way since it’s inception in 1987, where it was humbly located in Balance of Power creator Chris Crawford’s living room. Now, the largest annual gathering of game ...
Read More »Amusement Despite a High Cover Charge at THE CLUB
With The Club, developer Bizarre Creations has taken the trigger-finger twitch of Geometry Wars and somehow merged it with the finesse of Program Gotham Racing 4. The basic premise of the game resolves directing one ...
Read More »New Releases 2/17-2/23 Rehash Edition
It looks like publishers have caught the sequel-itis bug, as there is only one title that hasn’t seen a prequel, or been released on another system. Somewhere Xzibit is popping Crystal, as his Pimp My ...
Read More »Random Number Generator Weekly Roundup
Two Dead Rising Games? It seems Capcom has filed a complaint with the MKR Group, owner of the Dawn of the Dead film copyright. The publisher is claiming that “humans battling zombies in a shopping ...
Read More »Raiders of the Lost Art
After getting our fill of recent Xbox Marketplace title, Omega Five, we at Tech-Gaming have been mourning the loss of a nearly forgotten genre- the shoot ‘em up. Affectionately called the ‘shmup’, by fans, the ...
Read More »New Releases 2/10-2/16
Xbox 360Conflict: Denied OpsDark Messiah: Might and Magic ElementsJumper: Griffin’s StoryLost Odyssey Playstation 3Conflict: Denied Ops WiiBalloon PopJumper: Griffin’s StoryGo Diego Go! Safari RescueWinter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge PSPChessmaster: The Art of LearningDungeon Explorer: Warriors ...
Read More »Dark Messiah of Money and Microtransactions
What’s one of the most worrisome trends in gaming? When a publisher deliberately scales back game content. Lately, there has been some speculation that some of the larger industry companies have not included levels, weapons, ...
Read More »Devil May Crash Weekly Roundup
After getting a retail box copy of Devil May Cry 4 for the PS3, we loaded the disk into our console, and started the loading process. Despite Penny Arcade’s satirical complaint about the twenty minute ...
Read More »Afternoons Enhanced by ‘Days of Ruin’
We at Tech-Gaming remember Wargames. Predating the 1980’s Mathew Broderick, global-thermal nuclear war film, these games were sold at outlets that dabbled in twenty-sided dice and lead figurines. War games were sold in cellophane zip-loc ...
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