With the PlayStation 4 now only a few months away, you wouldn't think there would be that many, if any, great new IPs springing up as the PlayStation 3 reaches the end of the road. But with the developers behind arguably the best game series of all time, Uncharted, becoming the best in the industry just over the course of this current console generation, it's not surprising that Nau... Read More »

With the first BioShock setting a tone unlike anything before it, it's easy to understand how BioShock Infinite has become one of the most anticipated games of this console generation. Ken Levine and the developers at Irrational Games, the team behind the original BioShock, are back in the driver's seat and have taken the series to new heights… literally. The first look at gamepla... Read More »

In Gears of War: Judgment, Epic Games and their newly acquired People Can Fly studio have tried to maintain the classic look and feel that made the original trilogy such a resounding success and flagship franchise for the Xbox 360, while at the same time implementing new features to keep gamers (and themselves) from getting Gears fatigue. But with the stellar Gears of War 3 having b... Read More »

Despite numerous hits during this console generation, the Tomb Raider franchise has begun to feel dated ever since the Uncharted series took the treasure-hunting action-adventure genre to the next level. Not to be outdone by their imitators and successors, Crystal Dynamics has once again brought back the video game industry’s most popular heroine in an effort to reboot the iconic ... Read More »

After numerous delays, the game Gearbox claims to be unrelated to the cancelled 2001 Alien: Colonial Marines on PlayStation 2 is finally here… and still manages to look like something that you would see on the PS2. All joking aside, the new Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t that bad looking, but when stacked up against other recently released games and the original E3 2011 demo sho... Read More »

With big budget games pulling in higher grosses than Hollywood blockbusters, gamers have been spoiled over the past few years with amazing Triple-A titles from talented developers. The Dead Space series has been one of the best examples of brilliant new ideas emerging during the current Golden Age of gaming. But has the latest sequel in the popular horror series become a perfect exa... Read More »

To celebrate the mid-season return of AMC's hit TV show The Walking Dead tonight, we took a look at Telltale Games' first set of The Walking Dead video game episodes, which were also based on the original comic book series from which the show was developed. And like the critically acclaimed and popular TV zombie drama, the cerebral and emotional game left us hungry for more. Tell... Read More »

Your girlfriend’s missing, your boat’s been destroyed, you’re trapped on a mysterious island where everyone is crazy... and best of all, like one of last year's best games, you don't have to worry about any of that if you don't want to. That's because in Far Cry 3 you can either worry about all that serious stuff by strictly playing the campaign, or you can ignore it all for a... Read More »

With the Xbox 360 in its twilight years, the franchise that built the house of Xbox has returned one last time this generation with its iconic hero back at the helm. It's been five years since we've last seen Master Chief and Cortana after Halo 3's post-credits stinger cliffhanger that left their fates up in the air (literally). With Bungie's last Halo game not involving the Chief o... Read More »

Admittedly, I was pretty hard on Resident Evil 5 in my review three years ago that was almost more of a rant than a review. Being a fan of the series since the very first game, I had high expectations after Resident Evil 4, and the next-gen sequel was sadly a train wreck of dated gameplay mechanics and a story that seemed to be straying even further away from the classic Resident Ev... Read More »

After three title changes, the game that simply wouldn’t play dead is finally here. First developed as an original IP, then announced as the third installment in the True Crime series to help sell more copies, True Crime: Hong Kong would eventually be cancelled by Activision after numerous issues with its development. Rescuing the game from being put down for good, Square Enix has... Read More »

Like the series of films, the Transformers game franchise has seen its share of ups and downs over the past few years. After a string of terrible low budget movie tie-in games, High Moon Studios delivered one of the most enjoyable games of 2010 with their breakout hit War for Cybertron. Their transformation of the gaming franchise seemed to be on the right path until their follow-up... Read More »

With the company falling on hard times due to financial problems, it’s safe to say that THQ and their development studio Vigil Games have a lot riding on the success of Darksiders II. The sequel to 2010’s breakout hit is far bigger than the original with a new lead character and a vast amount of improvements -- but is the second coming of the Horsemen enough to keep the struggli... Read More »

After just getting through Inversion last week, which was a decent Gears of War copycat that will be almost completely forgotten by everyone who played it in a couple years, I wasn’t dying to play another third-person shooter this month. Spec Ops: The Line aims at Gears of War-style gameplay in a modern war environment like Call of Duty but never crosses over into knockoff territo... Read More »

Yet another take on the popular Gears of War franchise from a Japanese publisher, Inversion is a Gears of War copycat on a tight budget with an interesting gimmick. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and developer Saber Interactive, who were behind the surprise hit TimeShift early on this console generation and more recently Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, have ... Read More »

Taking over one of gaming’s most well known franchises and moving away from the open world genre that they made the standard in the industry many years ago, Rockstar has proven once again that they’re one of the best in the world at what they do. With no open world, no story-driven player decisions, and no revolutionary L.A. Noire facial animations, Rockstar has released the thi... Read More »