I get that Divekick is meant to be more parody than in-depth game, but I also didn’t find myself laughing. With that said, the premise is an interesting exercise in minimalism. Just how far down can you reduce the fighting game, in terms of both buttons and complexity, while maintaining…
Read MoreMars: War Logs is one of those games. If you hadn’t played it, and relied on the vast bulk of the reviews out there on the game you’d get the impression that it’s a shortish, generally ugly game hampered by its minimal budget when compared to Bioware and Mass Effect.…
Read MoreNamco Bandai Games recently revealed that it will be rolling out new streams of information daily on the Dark Souls II Facebook page, starting September 5th. This closed-beta will allow players to step into one of the most treacherous areas of the game and are stating that only the hardcore…
Read MoreTo be fair, Bloober does try to warn you right out of the gates, as A-Men’s description calls it out as a title geared toward “hardcore gamers”, and describes it as a strategy title. I initially was thinking more tactical/combat/war strategy than puzzle strategy, but upon firing this title up…
Read MoreThunder Wolves comes out of the gates, all of its guns blazing. It makes not apologies for being what it is: an shooting title that looks and sounds like it would be right at home with a buddy action movie from the 80’s. The V8 Ninja wrote up a nice…
Read MoreWatching what Edward D. Wood thought would be his magnum opus, Plan 9 From Outer Space, it’s easy to see how much care went into such a flawed product. Wood was a truly horrible director, but the ideas found within his work were remarkably progressive; he’s a man that cared…
Read MoreCastlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate already hit the 3DS earlier this year during March, but fast-forward half a year later and the game is slated for a multi-platform console release. Konami revealed the re-release as well as a batch of screenshots via the game’s official Facebook page…
Read MoreAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Sony is very close to reaching a deal with media giant Viacom to stream live TV over the Internet. TV is one of the few areas that Sony’s entertainment portfolio doesn’t cover, and in the face of the sheer focus on TV that Microsoft…
Read MoreDoom. Quake. Heretic. Hexen. Those four names will mean a world of nostalgia for any gamer over the age of 25 or so. These games were all pioneers of the FPS genre and they all followed a remarkably similar theme; they were dark Gothic nightmares filled with demonic horrors. Painkiller.…
Read MoreThere hasn’t been that many free-to-play games on the PS3 to date, but those that are there are generally definable as console games. Titles like From Dust and DC Universe Online are free-to-play, and haven’t necessarily been well received by the PS3 gaming community, but they are at least on…
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