L.A. Noire has been a long time coming. With its genesis occurring on the PS2, with a subsequent upgrade in hardware once the next generation of consoles were released, this is a game that has been anticipated and on the tip of people’s tongues for quite some time. So [...]
As one of the half-dozen European gamers to have actually owned a Sega Saturn back in the 90’s, I have fond memories of the original Sega Rally — one of the first arcade racers to successfully make the transition to home consoles. 16 years later, the franchise is still going strong, [...]
With the launch of the Xbox Live Arcade, there was an opportunity for lesser-known developers to get their name out there without the sometimes-prohibitive costs of releasing a disc-based game. And sometimes, XBLA is used by larger, more well-known developers to get a game out the door which they don’t deem necessary to put on [...]
Duke Nukem 3D was one of the first FPS titles to really leave an impact on me. During the mid-90s an adolescent version of me was stunned to see the guts, gore and girls DN3D had to offer. Even if Duke himself was a one dimensional, chain smoking, wise cracking misogynist he resonated with the [...]
The F.E.A.R franchise has been through a few hurdles since its debut in 2005. The first game in the series was developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi. Just 5 short years later and the original publisher have ceased to be. Like the ghostly little girls that populate this horror FPS series it has [...]
Some may believe that the music rhythm genre died when Activision disbanded its Guitar Hero unit earlier this year. We may see a decline in the amount of music games created by western developers but that leaves room for innovations from others in the gaming community. Tetsuya Mizuguchi returns to the music genre, after his [...]
History has shown us that the Japanese are quite resistant to change and rarely up-to-date when it comes to popular culture. This is, of course, in sharp contrast to the Land of the Rising Sun’s thirst for cutting-edge technology. To see a micro laptop in Japan playing an episode of Columbo or a gadget-riddled Nissan [...]
I’ll say it straight up: If you’ve never played some form of Peggle, you aren’t a gamer. Sure, Halo is a great game series, the Grand Theft Auto franchise broke ground for all open-world games and the Gears of War games have upped the grittiness for first-person shooters, but Peggle is in a class of [...]
Despite some very positive reviews coming back on the Warner Brothers film, “Watchmen,” many die-hard fans of the ’80s DC series/novel are up in arms. Just like many novels turned into movies, there are rumors of some interesting liberties that have been taken with the original storyline. It looks like we could have another “LotR”/ [...]
Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy line of games has really expanded from the Rainbow Sixes and Splinter Cells to add other entries—each one with a specific gameplay focus. The latest, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., take to the air with real-world combat jets.
It’s important to note, for those who didn’t get a taste of the game through the demo [...]
