By Dan Chiappini
Aug 15, 2008 4:51 pm PT
The 2008 edition of ICC breaks little new ground, but if you simply must have the latest season’s statistics and rosters, there’s still a competent sim management game for devoted cricket fans.
International Cricket Captain 2008 for the PC builds on the changes introduced in last year’s [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
28 July 2008
Beijing 2008 proves beyond a doubt that rapidly pushing buttons is not fun.
Who knew qualifying for the Olympics could be so difficult? Instead of a worldwide competition crafted around ideas that fit in with the modern gaming landscape, this is just an archaic compilation of mostly old, painful gameplay techniques [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Aug 11, 2008 11:17 am PT
Strong Bad and Co. venture into new territory and find themselves out of their element.
Over the past two years, Sam & Max has shown that short, humorous games can be commercially viable when released as a series of episodes. Continuing this trend, the webcomic Penny [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Aug 1, 2008 5:47 pm PT
This online RPG offers some witty humor and short-lived fun, but you’ll be ready to move on after a scant few hours.
Fantasy is so cliche. At least, that’s what the developer of Dungeon Runners would have us believe. In this online role-playing game, genre standards [...]
By Brett Todd July 25 2008
Out of the Park Baseball 9 doesn’t add a lot to an already fantastic formula, but a host of small refinements make it the best game in the history of the franchise.
For a game franchise in transition, Out of the Park Baseball 9 is incredibly well polished. The baseball [...]
By Brett Todd July 23 2008
A number of small improvements make Baseball Mogul 2009 only a minor evolution over its predecessor.
It seems to be the year for incremental improvements in baseball management simulations. Just like its main rival, Out of the Park Baseball 9, Baseball Mogul 2009 enters a new season looking a lot [...]
By Jon Miller
With great power comes great gameplay. We check out Cryptic Studios’ new cross-platform superhero massively multiplayer online game.
No more heroes? Don’t tell that to Cryptic Studios, the renowned massively multiplayer online game developer that created City of Heroes. Next up for Cryptic is Champions Online, a new superhero MMOG based on the classic [...]
Blazing Angels 2 is a fairly straightforward mission-based flight game set against the backdrop of World War II, much like its predecessor was. But instead of sticking to the facts like the first game tried to do, the sequel heads off into that not-so-lofty “what if?” territory that World War II-themed games eventually seem to [...]
By Brett Todd
Old and almost impossible, Stronghold Crusader Extreme is hard to recommend even to diehard fans of this RTS series.
You can’t go home again. That’s the lesson of Stronghold Crusader Extreme, a revamping of Firefly Studios’ classic 2002 real-time strategy game Stronghold Crusader. This minor reimagining of an oldie but goodie is several years [...]
By Brett Todd
Political junkies and board-game fans should love The Political Machine 2008, even if it is a bit too close for comfort to its predecessor.
Four years seem to be making a lot of difference in the real American political landscape, but things haven’t changed all that much in the virtual one created by [...]
