Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force Review
May the Force Tilt with You Pinball FX 2 is the best pinball video game ever created. Experiencing all it has to offer is an expensive endeavor, but each of its expansion packs feature something for everyone. The original Star ...
The Wolf Among Us: Episode One – Faith Review
Silver AwardWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Telltale Games brought the graphic adventure back into relevancy last year with the The Walking Dead.  The Walking Dead  was a perfect marriage of gameplay and narrative, so much so th...
10 Xbox Live Indie Games Worth Playing
The Xbox Live Indie Games section of the Xbox Live Marketplace is depressing. I’ll actually go a step further: it’s utter junk. Most of the games available on it are poor clones of popular games, games filled with p...
Ascend: Hand of Kul Review
No Strings Attached I’ll be honest: I hate microtransactions. I don’t like it when they’re shoved in my face, like they were in Dead Space 3 (which I enjoyed). I especially don’t like it when I canR...
Nick Borrego and Enola: A Perfect Pairing
Not many folks in the games industry have heard of The Domaginarium or Nick Borrego. That’s unfortunate because The Domaginarium is the developer behind the promising psychological horror game, Enola, which SpawnFirstR...
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Review
Bronze AwardOffbeat GemDream a Little Dream 17 years have passed since the release of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, which is kind of unbelievable. It’s because of that game that the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series e...
Pandora’s Tower Review
Ascend! Pandora’s Tower should have released in North America sooner. It came out in Japan in 2011. Europe and Australia got it last year. It’s the type of game that could have carried the Wii during those dull mon...
Crash City Mayhem Review
How to Turn the 3DS Into a 3DN64 Remember Crazy Taxi? It’s pretty much impossible to forget as it’s still sitting waiting to be fed quarters in almost every single one of the few remaining arcades in the U.S. and p...
Hideo Kojima: An “A” for Effort
On Sept. 4 Hideo Kojima provided some more details via Twitter about a female character named Quiet from Metal Gear Solid V. He said he told Yoji Shinkawa, the game’s art director, to make Quiet “more erotic.”...
Heavy Fire: The Chosen Few Review
Shooting At Idiots On-rails shooters are a dying breed. No real explanation exists as to why that is so. It’s not like they’re bad or outdated; they just don’t sell well. The House of the Dead: Overkill andÂ...
Diablo 3 Mega-Review
Editor's ChoiceGold AwardI Want It All and I Want It Now Hey, remember Baldur’s Gate and its sequel, Shadows of Amn? Remember how awesome those games were? I do. I also remember when Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was announced, and how ...
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F Review
Offbeat GemBecause Japan I honestly didn’t know what to expect going into Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F. I knew it was a rhythm game, and I figured it was from Japan because of its title, but I had no idea if I’d be able to un...
LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins Review
Not a Good Way to Begin the Chase, Chase I have a soft spot in my heart for LEGO games. I know they’re simplistic, silly and primarily for children, but I’ve still had hours of fun with Traveller’s Tales’...
Killer Is Dead Review
The Man on the Moon “Suda51” is a name that’s synonymous with “strange”. Goichi Suda has been involved with the creation of some of the oddest games to have ever been released, from killer7 to N...
A Message for People Who Play Video Games: Stop Being Dumb
On July 23, David Vonderhaar, the design director for Treyarch, received death threats and other disturbing messages via Twitter after tweeting out details of a Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch that included some minor tweaks t...
