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This week the full crew forms into a giant, game-loving Voltron. Amongst the Robot Lions, there are impressions of Far Cry 3, LittleBigPlanet Karting, Halo 4, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Lollipop Chainsaw, and as this ...

In 2008’s The Dark Knight, Alfred offers up an astute analysis of the Joker’s motivations to Bruce Wayne- “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”  With an unmatched conflagration algorithm which let players ...

The game industry’s holiday period is similar to Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season- both are bursting with visceral, big-budget thrill rides fated for the top of the charts. From Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of ...

With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, the number of new releases is stating to dwindle. Despite this drop is quantity, quality remains. From expansions for Battlefield 3 and Skyrim, a port of ...

Undoubtedly, the concept of a Transformers game seems like a surefire proposition. With two factions of pugnacious robots capable of reconfiguring into cars, jets, tanks and guns, the ceaseless struggle between Autobots and Decepticons is ...

While graphical fidelity is habitually debated across internet gaming forums, sonic quality is often overlooked. Considering that both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 pump out immersive, 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Surround Sound (with the PS3 ...

Even for enthusiasts of other Japanese role-playing games, the Shin Megami Tensei series can be initially off-putting. From the pistol-like evokers which teen protagonists point to their heads in SMT: Persona 3 to the Jungian ...

Considered the apogee of the late baroque period, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is now ubiquitous. Reduced to a hackneyed signifier of luxury, the concertos have been used in ads for Hewlett-Packard, Lincoln as well ...

With Brown Thursday, Black Friday, and any other color-coded shopping days behind us, the number of new retail titles has certainly decreased. Yet, thanks to digital download services, several notable releases will week from being empty of ...

For the vast majority of my video gaming career, pro-wrestling games have been my go-to genre. Long car trips and weekends at my grandparents’ house went by in the blink of an eye thanks to ...