Tower defense is an addictive genre, but the last time it was ever really ‘reinvented’ to feel fresh was in Q Entertainment’s PixelJunk Monsters. But now, someone’s finally stepped up to the plate and done the most obvious thing to totally jack the idea to new heights: space aliens, and stuff. Unveiled pre-PAX, Hidden Path’s upcoming [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Jagged Alliance is a tactical RPG series that first saw the light of day in the mid-to-late 1990’s on the PC. This game was originally announced quite some time ago, but disappeared off the radar when the publisher, Strategy First, cancelled all of the DS titles that they had in the works. The good news [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
For those of you who may not have heard of this title as of yet, Everyday Shooter was originally released for both PS3 and PC and has gotten fantastic reviews everywhere for it’s incredible usage of music paired with a fairly basic shooter. It sounds fairly run-of-the-mill, but anybody who has played the game will [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
Overlord, as a series, was most recently released for PC and Xbox 360 back in 2007 and PS3 in 2008 by publisher Codemasters. It has a lot of Pikmin-like elements in it’s controls, but that is where the comparison has to end. The game itself is quite a bit darker in subject matter, where you [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
How often do you wish that your RTS-commanded units would just shoot more accurately? They seem to go at it with an enemy squad for two or three minutes straight with slow deaths on either side - wouldn’t it just be better if you could pop in to the eyes of the squad leader and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Replay Studios’ upcoming Xbox 360/PC WWII stealth action game, Velvet Assassin, is inspired by the fascinating historic events and unbreakable spirit of British secret agent Violette Szabo, a super spy who perpetrated war from the shadows in the forties. Players will take on the role of Violette Summer, the “assassin” of the title’s namesake, and head [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The game’s been a long time coming, and as officially announced by Atari today, Alone in the Dark will finally see its pseudo-episodic release in June in Europe across the Wii, Xbox 360 and PC. No info is available regarding the release of the PlayStation 3 version of the game, nor do we have any [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
Whether you’re dual-wielding a mace and meat-cleaver combo, or mowing down monsters with a mana powered shotgun, Mythos features gameplay that’s familiar to dungeon-crawling veterans, and while it completely lacks originality, the fusion of familiar fundamental design elements has us excited to right click until our hands are numb. This Diablo-like loot-gathering skeleton-slaughter-simulator is not [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 8, 2008
It’s unfortunate news any time a print publication goes to the graveyard, but despite today’s announcement regarding the closure of Ziff Davis’ PC gaming mag, Games for Windows The Official Magazine, it isn’t the end of the world. At least, it isn’t the end of the magazine as a whole. After its 27 year run [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 22, 2008
There are two things Ubisoft can count on: that the die hard Rainbow Six fans will follow the premiere Clancy franchise every step of the way, and if they screw it up, God help them (see: Lockdown). Fortunately, the skilled team at Ubisoft Montreal has crafted a heartfelt sequel to 2006’s Rainbow Six Vegas that [...]
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
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