From the creators of the Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider series comes the sequel to Kane and Lynch. Story: Fresh off escaping from a prison, the heroes of the first game meet up in Shanghai and chase Brady, an informant, through the streets and rooftops. Ultimately ending the dash in a corner, and getting into [...]
In Mafia 2 you play an up and coming mobster named Vito Scaletta. The story revolves around a multitude of years of Veto experience’s with the Mob families he encounters in the game. The question is does your experience with the game match Vito’s? Story: The game starts you off with a cut-scene showing Vito [...]
I’ve mentioned it before but I’ll say it again. There seems to be a growing trend or interest in retro/classic games. We’ve seen many ports of classic NES, SNES, arcade cabinet games, and so on for the XBLA and with the XBLIG marketplace we’ve seen many original games with a classic look and feel. Even [...]
Japanese people come up with some of the strangest and funniest things in the world, from television shows to anime and of course video games. Most of these ideas stay in Japan, but occasionally an audience in North America requests a release here or a Japanese company decides to try the western market. Some of [...]
Lara Croft is still raiding tombs in Crystal Dynamics’ new Tomb Raider spin-off…
Blazblue Continuum Shift is a fighting game of epic proportions. As soon as you load the game up and hit the main menu you are greeted with about 6 choices for gameplay, including online play, and the ability to record and watch a match you’ve played. You know right then and there that this game [...]
Sports fans have Monday Night Football but with a new game from Uber Entertainment and the second last addition to the Summer of Arcade, gamers can now say they have Monday Night Combat. Monday Night Combat is a new arena based shooter that puts a slight twist on the third person shooter genre. Monday Night [...]
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair isn’t the first game on the Xbox 360. Symphony of the Night was the first to be ported over recently Castlevania but Harmony of Despair is definitely the first original 2D Castlevania game in a long time. Sure we’ve seen many new releases on the Nintendo DS, but this would be [...]
Have you ever played a game that lacked a story but was still fun to play; a game that you came back to when you had a break of about 15-30 minutes? Games like Geometry War or Texas Hold Em fit this bill. Death Smiles is a game that has a story but honestly it’s [...]
The first downloadable episode to the highly acclaimed psychological thriller Alan Wake is finally here. The aptly titled episode, “The Signal” provides a creepier and more action-packed experience that continues the story of Alan Wake. Story: “In “The Signal,” Alan finds himself facing a threat unlike anything he has encountered before – and yet, the [...]