Despite being released in late January, Dead Space 2 has effortlessly become one of my most played games of all time. I'm currently on my fourth play, and I still find the game utterly engaging, helped in no small part by the...

If you're picking up a Nintendo 3DS at launch, you're likely suffering anxiety over which game to buy along with it. Let's face it: the 3DS launch line up isn't littered with winners.With more than ten launch titles available...

As someone who grew up in the ’80s, I have fond memories of these rubber WWF toys that I’d ricochet all over my house. Drop Hulk Hogan on his rubbery toes in just the right place and he’d spring forward, sma...

Commander Shepard, protagonist of last year's undisputed GOTY Mass Effect 2, has a lot of favorite things. Whether it's a store on the Citadel, carrying out Pyjak genocide, or punching reporters in the face, Shepard likes ...

More than any other game I can recall playing, Swarm gets right to the point in its main menu screen. As with all PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade titles, there are the usual options to select from by hitting, in my c...

A few days ago, we brought news that Japanese-exclusive Mega Drive title Monster World IV was heading onto PSN and XBLA. Considering that the previous entries in the Wonder Boy / Monster World series had been released on VC, ...

Little Charlie Blackmore may have succeeded in rescuing his doll family from the evil baron, but his adventures are not yet over. A new quest for the smallest Matryoska doll arrives this week on PlayStation Network and Xbox L...

Without digging into the semantic details too much, auteur theory -- the idea that a single, charismatic designer can leave his mark on a game -- was a popular talking point a few years ago. While no longer part of the games ...

The Need For Speed: Shift series has been about capturing the adrenaline pumping speed and finesse of hardcore style racing. Now, the Shift series is making a return to the iOS with a port of Shift 2: Unleashed.

Bonk: Brink of Extinction was one the more prominent titles to get the big boot once Hudson Entertainment closed. Sure, our impression from last year's E3 was rather lukewarm, but it was still a revival of a beloved property ...

If I hadn't been reviewing so many of them lately, I would have thought the shoot-em-up genre was dead.  Apparently I was wrong as I've reviewed more games from this genre than any other over the last six months. ...

I'm unsure how sales for the original DS version of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes were, but I'd be willing to wager they weren't nearly as high as they should have been. Capybara Games has taken that excellent handheld p...

Gearbox Software is looking for fan feedback when it comes to Borderlands 2, as we heard earlier today. Going a step further, the company is experimenting with a limited-time stat-tracking service called BTest. The Steam vers...

Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale is an action-RPG developed by Bedlam Games, the new dudes behind the troubled Scratch: The Ultimate DJ project. This isn’t the kind of pedigree you want from a studio handling a new Dung...

Vanguard Entertainment Group was recently formed from Karami, founded by two ex-Guerrilla Games guys, and W!Games, the developers behind Greed Corp. Now their new game Gatling Gears has been released on Xbox Live Arcade, with...

Traveler's Tales has once again taken a popular film franchise and those colorful Danish building blocks, and thrown them into a videogame blender. This time, its dart board of pop-culture has Disney's Pirates of the Carib...

I love racing games, but my favorite kind are the ones that take you off the road and into the elements. Rally racing has always been my preference. Actually (cue harps and clouds), my money-no-object dream is to actually ral...

How complex is R2-D2? He's got all those tools and holographic equipment, but they couldn't put in a voice chip that makes him speak English? Woah, sorry. I'm getting off topic. This is about Kinect and E3. You'l...

The March release of 2K Sports’ Major League Baseball 2K11 came with the fanfare of the publisher’s second annual competition to throw an in-game perfect game for a $1 million cash prize. This time around, 2K twea...

The last time inXile graced the world with a console roleplaying was with The Bard's Tale back in 2004. Since then, the studio has been quietly working away on a number of mobile games, so it's certainly interesting to see th...

Tonight at a press conference THQ and Adidas revealed a new interactive athletic training program for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 called miCoach. The title brings together training programs developed for sports like basket...

Last year's E3 had an intriguing teaser for an exclusive Xbox 360 game by Crytek called Codename: Kingdoms. And since then...we've heard nothing about it. Now, the codename has been dropped, with the game going by the new mon...

Back in 2010 Tecmo Koei promised us a darker, bloodier Ninja Gaiden and that's exactly what the E3 floor demo is all about.  The buckets of blood are back in full force as Ryu rips every ugly thing in the alley to shr...

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer sees quite a few similarities between Children's Television Workshop, the folks responsible for Sesame Street, and his own studio. At Double Fine, says Schafer, the goal is always to try someth...

Breaking news on the Hole in the Wall front: the game is real! The crazed television show in which people wear gross bodysuits and attempt to contort their way through silly shaped holes in moving walls is headed to Xbox Live...

Pay no attention to the silly kids that jumped around on the stage at Microsoft's E3 press conference. They might have left a bad taste in your mouth. That was definitely the case for me. The on-stage presentation for Kinect ...

A week ago, the Humble Double Fine Bundle was announced. For some, it was easy to resist; though the games on the list range from decent to great, fans of the studio already owned most, if not all of the titles. Of course th...

I hadn't heard of Akimi Village prior to today, but it's instantly recognizable. You see, I played (and loved) A Kingdom for Keflings and its follow-up, A World of Keflings. Akimi Village is now available on the PlayStation ...

Poor Alice Liddell, mentally torturing herself after her family perished in a fire that consumed her childhood home. Enough to drive a girl mad, which is exactly what led to the events of 2000's cult-classic, American McGee's...

Codemaster will end online play for GRID for PS3 and PC. It's always a sad day when online ends for a good game. For some reason the Xbox 360 online play will live on. For now. "After three years of service, 2008's Race Drive...

Last week at E3, I had a chance to sit down ... er, stand up with Blackwater, a new Kinect-exclusive first-person shooter from publisher 505 Games. Just recently announced, the game has already caused quite the stir over its ...

Those looking for an inexpensive, challenging platformer need look no further: Magiko Gaming has released its follow-up to Platformance: Castle Pain. Out today on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel is Platformance: Temple Dea...

Knock me over the head with a jug of orange juice! What a great deal coming from Capcom. They've sliced the price of the zombie mowing horror survival Dead Rising 2 in half, down from $59.99 to only $29.99. That's all version...

Arm flapping does not come with the latest Harry Potter game. EA producer Gary Napper told Joystiq that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 won't have any Kinect kind of functionality, though earlier titles did. EA ...

Before the review begins, I feel it's my duty to warn anybody who considers purchasing this -- there's barely any mention of the Moon at all. In fact, the Moon appears in the campaign's end credits more than it appears in the game itself.  Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a big lie.

Darkworks will be known to those who played Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and checked the box to see who to blame. The studio also did work on Ubisoft's I Am Alive, which appears to be filling in the vaporware gap lef...

I love arcade racing games. The sense of speed, the excitement of hairpin turns, and the hum of the engine get my blood pumping in a fast and fun way. Racing sims can offer the same enjoyment yet allow for more customization ...

The "online pass" system was designed to combat used sales and make money from those who buy secondhand games. Except in the case of F.E.A.R 3, in which Warner Bros. apparently got so excited and giddy over the idea of the sy...

Kalypso Media has announced a release date of July 13th for Boulder Dash XL on Xbox Live Arcade. A PC release is planned for later in the year. This modernized version of the classic Boulder Dash from 1984 has five ...

The "online pass" system was designed to combat used sales and make money from those who buy secondhand games. Except in the case of F.E.A.R 3, in which Warner Bros. apparently got so excited and giddy over the idea of the sy...

A Namco Bandai representative has stated that Microsoft paid to keep Tales of Vesperia an Xbox 360 exclusive outside of Japan ... then backtracked to say that it didn't.  "Microsoft paid for the exclusivity the same...

This first trailer for indie game Storm shows off the Spring season, in what looks to be a very calming puzzle game. Using three main elements -- rain, wind, and lightning -- and four 'secondary' elements, you have to guide u...

In a rather odd move, Xbox Live Arcade has been updated with four new releases this week. I guess they're clearing out the queue in preparation for the Summer of Arcade later this month? Sure, let's go with that. Half-Minute...

In a rather odd move, Xbox Live Arcade has been updated with four new releases this week. I guess they're clearing out the queue in preparation for the Summer of Arcade later this month? Sure, let's go with that. Half-Minute...

I really dig WWE All-Stars, but haven't been giving it much love lately. Maybe that'll change soon, as THQ has announced a slew of upcoming downloadable wrestlers for the title. Available right now is "The Million Dollar Man"...

Sequel time!  For the originals, here's Crysis and Portal. I've learned my lesson.  Crysis joins the list of franchises I'll never touch again.  That's not to say Crysis 2 was a bad game.  Just a bad all ...

It's incredibly difficult to make a bad beat 'em up. The concept of moving from left to right while mashing buttons to clear out groups of attackers is an incredibly simple one. You've got a game in the bag if you can nail th...

While certain people in the games industry make me jump up and down with excitement, there are others who make my personality do a complete U-turn and Tomonobu Itagaki is one of them. Instead of swearing and squealing&n...

Space bees are the worst. They think they're so cool, but they're really not. Fortunately, games like Galaga exist to take them down a peg or two, and Galaga Legions DX exists to take them down in the coolest way possible.  Stupid space bees.

Machinima's Adam Kovic and John Yniguez have a new series where they mess with different mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. The first episode sees them flying around Liberty City as Iron Man, and as it turns out, he's kind of a dick.

According to Runic Games, Torchlight has surpassed an impressive one million sales across PC, Mac, and Xbox Live Arcade. That's a helluva lot of clicking going on. The game is fun, no question, but who knew people were still ...

Having just read the fourteenth vol of The Walking Dead I've been in full zombie mode, so this latest video from the crew over at dorkly was just what I was looking for. Personally, I don't know if zombies would even bother ...

Usually, downloadable games on Xbox Live can only offer 200 Gamer Points' worth of Achievements. The HD reissues of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica, however, will offer 1,000 Points each, boasting full-fledge...

The original Half-Minute Hero is quite possibly my favorite game released for the PlayStation Portable. Its inventive take on role-playing games was refreshing, while its self-referential humor regarding the conventions ...

WWE games, such as their most recent WWE All-Stars, are the type of game that probably come to mind when you think of the wrestling franchise. The corporate brain behind this old entertainment past-time is trying something n...

During the EA Summer showcase, the newest entry to the Harry Potter videogame series was available to check out just before it becomes available this Tuesday. In this final chapter of the story, you must save the world and yo...

After the days of the Super Nintendo, I stopped playing any and all sports games that did not feature Princess Peach in a tennis skirt. Not that I don't think sports games are good -- I just think they got too realistic and c...

Last year, EA Sports decided to take a some risks, change up a few things and make a pretty darn good college football game. Well, apparently, we liked the experimental title enough that they decided to do some...

Topware Interactive is releasing Two Worlds II: Velvet Game of the Year Edition on October 18 and yes, there is velvet.  The velvet covers the entire box -- black for PC and Mac, red for Xbox 360 and PS3 -- along with me...

In some circles, the Green Lantern movie and games have been a major success. So much so that the folks at WB have decided to give fans a chance to peek behind the curtain at the making of Rise of the Manhunters. They're definitely right about one thing, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, specifically) is a fantastic super hero. The jury may be out on the movie and games, but he's a damn good character.