Review by Brad L. Halo Wars was an experiment in expanding upon a universe entirely viewed in first person. Though Bungie originally wanted Halo to be a real time strategy, some could argue that Microsoft caught lightning in a bottle when the company convinced Bungie to shift the focus over…
Read MoreWelcome to the DDNet Awards, our annual celebration of the best and brightest games that we’ve been playing throughout the year. It has been a really good year for games in 2016, with great examples of every genre popping up through the year. Across 15 categories over the next three…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Car combat games have never really been a dominant genre, but if they ever had a heyday, it was the 64-bit era. The genre goes back a lot farther than that – Taito released Crashing Race in 1976 – but the latter half of the ‘90s…
Read MoreNews by Matt C Until December 31, the acclaimed Xbox 360 JRPG Lost Odyssey is freely available on Xbox 360 and Xbox One – for everyone, not just Xbox Live Gold subscribers. To get the game, simply go to the game’s page on Xbox Marketplace and click “Download to Xbox…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Frank West has done it all. He covered the original zombie outbreak in Willamette USA for which he himself got infected for his efforts. He then helped develop a cure for it which then become a well-known pharmaceutical product known as Zombrex which helped both Frank…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I am one lucky girl: it seems as though much of what I love from my childhood in the late ’80s and ’90s is coming back with gusto. Tamagotchis, Lisa Frank stationary sets, Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles… these have all had a reboot in recent memory, and…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Battlefield 1 is fascinating to me, in large part because the game takes a step into the past with its World War 1 source material and in doing so gives the Battlefield franchise a future full of exciting potential. With excellent multiplayer and a single player…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Over the last few years, the WWE series has done a nice job of adding substantial new features while improving upon some of its weaker areas. This has made the annual releases something for wrestling fans to look forward to. This year’s release of WWE 2K17…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. In NBA 2k17, the action is smoother than ever and there are so many different modes, options and sliders that almost anyone should be able to pick up this latest release in the popular franchise and enjoy themselves. Admittedly 2K Sports has had the best NBA…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. I must admit I started to lose interest in the Gears of War games after the third, but I was excited to see where the game would go under a new development team in The Coalition. The good news is that the new development team has…
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