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One of the most difficult tasks at the Orlando-based offices of EA Tiberon must be determining what features to add to the yearly iteration of their sports titles. If the developers overreach with a exceedingly ...

To celebrate the release of DeathSpank, the comical action-role playing game from Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island), were inviting our readers to get spanked. Like many forms of corporal punishment, provocation ...

Upon inspection of this week’s new release schedule, it appears the animals have taken over. Whether players are being tempted by the lure of racing farm animals in the latest episode in the Calvin Tucker ...

Over the years, Bejeweled has become unavoidably ubiquitous. Originally released as a browser game in 2001, the diversion has been ported to nearly every contemporary computer, console, portable and cell phone, even making an appearance ...

This week the Tech-Gaming crew discusses Crackdown 2, Tales of Money Island, Arma 2: Combined Operations, Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, Anime Expo as well as the irrefutable merits of John Denver impersonators. To ...

Last year, NIS America released Cross Edge, a game which united a collection of characters from games as diverse as Darkstalkers, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg, and Mana Khemia 2: ...

Growing up  as a son of a Naval veteran in a town best known for its munitions depot meant nautical combat simulations were a routine part of my childhood. In darkened rooms, titles such as ...

As the fourth franchise to be given the brick-building treatment (following Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman), gamers could be forgiven if they approached Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 with indifference. Each new Lego iteration ...

Devoted players may be familiar with Summer Gaming Theory- the hypothesis which explains a reverse correlation between the rising temperatures of July and August and the dwindling number of new releases on store shelves. While ...

This week on the Tech-Gaming podcast, the crew finds gratification is both new (Transformers: War For Cybertron and Sin and Punishment: Star Successor) titles, as well as a few disks that have been rescued from ...