This week, DesertEagle, SeanNOLA, and Samurage discuss StarCraft II parody mods, Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, Gatling Gears, and topics too abhorrent for video games. Beyond offering our usual serving of gaming ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of May 15th, 2011
This week the anticipation ends. After an aeonian wait of four years, L.A. Noire is finally hitting store shelves, bringing its series of post-war murder mysteries onto our high definition consoles. Likewise, Chrono Trigger hits ...
Read More »Gatling Gears Review
Over the last two decades, appreciation for twin-stick shooters has followed a reoccurring cycle of admiration and apathy. Once the darling of arcades with titles like Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV, scoot-and-shoot games struggled to ...
Read More »LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Review
In 2003, with the theatrical release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl looming, many critics speculated on the success of turning a Disneyland thrill ride into a full-length feature film. ...
Read More »First Ten: Gatling Gears
Typically, when a studio’s inaugural effort is a turn-based strategy title, you’d might expect to see some traces of contemplative mechanics in a follow-up title. Yet, beyond a shared setting, this week’s XBLA release of ...
Read More »Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury Review
Historically, Japanese developer Treasure have enjoyed pushing consoles to their absolute limits. Whether explicitly stated on the Engrish-reading pause screen of 1995’s Alien Soldier (“now is the time to the 68000 heart on fire”) or ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of May 8th, 2011
With punks, pirates and pro tennis players, this week’s new releases offer a potpourri of plucky protagonists. From the high anticipated blending of first-person shooter and parkour maneuvering in Brink to the blistering, mechanized mayhem ...
Read More »Drop Like It’s Hot- Section 8: Prejudice Review
Although much of 2008’s Section 8 instinctively followed sci-fi shooter convention, the game delivered one stirring hook. Borrowing Medal of Honor: Airborne‘s paratrooping mechanic, the title allowed players to choose their landing position on a ...
Read More »Pro Evolution Soccer 3D 2011 Review
Historically, sports simulations on portables have been at a distinct disadvantage. With limited processing power and diminutive screens, pocket-sized system struggle to deliver the spectacle offered by their home-based brethren. Traditionally, Nintendo owners have incurred ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of May 1st, 2011
Few would argue that Buffy, Freddy Kruger, Machete, and The Walking Dead‘s Merle Dixon make one hell of formidable zombie-killing team. Yet the cast of Call of Duty: Black Ops: Call of the Dead might ...
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