In an era where it’s common for publishers to charge sixty dollars for a barebones, six-hour single player campaign, Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga seems like a outlandish outlier. By delivering two separate, protracted ...
Read More »NASCAR The Game 2011 Review
Although I’ve spent weeks careening around the replicated tarmac surfaces of the Forza, F1, and Shift franchises, the merits of a concentrated stock car simulation have largely evaded me. Blame the three-year hiatus since console ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of April 17th, 2011
As the Winter chill relinquishes its grasp, yard and garage sales are proliferating like a plague, filling neighborhoods with the corpses of used goods. With six compilations of older titles in this week’s new release ...
Read More »Podcast 6-9: Everyone Falls for Paper Dolls
This week SeanNOLA offers impressions on Playstation Move Heroes and assails the notion of ‘paper dolls’ in modern RPGs, while Samurage finds gratification in Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Meanwhile DesertEagle dusts off his Move controller to ...
Read More »Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars Review
At first glance, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is an unlikely 3DS inaugural title. With a launch library focusing on exhibiting quick, palatable demonstrations of the hardware’s capabilities, a thoughtful turn-based game which delivers a middling ...
Read More »More Face Than Heel- WWE All Stars Review
Although popular perception often regards professional wrestling as an insubstantial diversion, contemporary recreations of the sport deliver a involved experience. With complex control systems, intricate storylines, and aspirations for authenticity, most of today’s wresting games ...
Read More »Podcast 6-8: Nothing But Ninjas
This week the shuriken-throwing, tabi-wearing trio deliver stealthy impressions of 3rd Birthday, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Super Street Fighter IV 3D multiplayer, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, as well as Streets of Rage ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of April 10th, 2011
This week has clearly gone to the animals. With new titles featuring dragons, monkeys, rabbids, a macaw and a man named Bear Grylls, humans seem woefully underrepresented in this week’s releases. One group which resists ...
Read More »StarDrone Review
With a resume which includes the (as of yet unreleased) 2010 Independent Games Festival honoree, MelodyBloxx, as well as the woeful Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter, the quality of Beatshapers output has varied widely. With StarDrone, the ...
Read More »Major League Baseball 2K11 Review
With a fervent amount of critical acclaim and an impressive amount of polish garnered across its eleven year lifecycle, the MLB: The Show franchise is the interactive equivalent of the New York Yankees. Love them ...
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