The product of 1995’s singleplayer-only Warhawk on the original PlayStation and 2007’s multiplayer-only Warhawk on the PlayStation 3, Starhawk has undergone many transformations over the years. Like the legendary tale of the phoenix, the Hawk series hasn’t made many appearances since its debut and like the development studio behind the series and the Hawks themselves, Starhawk... Read More »

Like Hollywood, the gaming industry has a trend of releasing similar competing games around the same time. One of the most recent and biggest gaming showdowns after Call of Duty and Battlefield is the epic battle between Prototype and Infamous -- both good games, both involving superheroes in open-world cities, and both debuting in the summer of 2009. Although Infamous seemed to be ... Read More »

With Resident Evil 5 failing to improve upon anything from Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space series perfecting the survival horror genre, Capcom needed to make some improvements to the Resident Evil series to win back some of their fans. In a move that nobody saw coming, the developers behind almost completely killing the SOCOM series before Zipper somehow made it even worse, Slant... Read More »

Promising the sun, moon, and stars in the form of a game featuring a fully alive universe with a story driven by the choices of a player, BioWare's original Mass Effect seemed like an idea that could no way would live up to the hype. But after its amazing debut in 2007 and even better sequel in 2010, nobody was left questioning what BioWare could achieve in their Mass Effect games. ... Read More »

With yearly installments to slower-paced modern day shooters, it’s a damn shame that the once dominant arena twitch shooter genre is now becoming extinct. Being a huge fan of both Unreal Tournament and Quake, like many others I've been dying for a new fast-paced futuristic shooter ever since playing 2008's Unreal Tournament III to death with friends on the Xbox 360 and PS3. Enter ... Read More »

It’s been a while since the riders of SSX have seen fresh powder. Not counting 2007’s Wii exclusive, the latest in the series, simply titled SSX (formerly SSX: Deadly Descents), is the first real sequel to debut on current generation consoles after EA Sports’ BIG line of games ceased production. Now with a revival of over-the-top sports games, Electronic Arts has brought the b... Read More »

Yet another classic franchise that's jumping genres and switching into the first person perspective is Syndicate, a futuristic cyber-punk FPS that's being revived after almost two full decades since the original was released as a real-time tactical game. Now the same studio behind breakout hits like The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and The Darkness, Starbreeze Studi... Read More »

It's been over a decade since we've last seen Sweet Tooth and the rest of the Twisted gang on a major console. After releasing one of the best and most mature games on the PlayStation 2, the Eat Sleep Play team behind the best games of the Twisted franchise has finally returned, and they're serving up a sequel with everyone's favorite killer clown taking the spotlight. Twisted M... Read More »

Emerging from the darkness after being released during the early days of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, The Darkness series is finally back with a new developer, new features, and a brand new look. Just like its predecessor, The Darkness II will hook you right from the start with a very brutal and memorable action-packed sequence of events, only to slow things down midway through t... Read More »

Games these days... they’re all the same. Take, for example, Rebellion’s latest, NeverDead, a game in which you play as a wisecracking human named Bryce, who was cursed with immortality five hundred years ago, and now in modern times hunts demons for money and revenge with the power to regenerate lost limbs. Sound familiar? Maybe a little bit of a Hellboy vibe… but other than ... Read More »

Apart from the Duke Nukem series, no other gaming franchise better sums up the late '90s / early '00s than NFL Blitz. It was a time when steroids were running rampant amongst all of professional sports and fans could care less (because this is America, damn it!) and the bigger the athletes and plays, the better. While American football wasn't that much different than it is today, Mi... Read More »

Announced back in 2008, Star Wars: The Old Republic is the second take on a MMORPG based on the most popular sci-fi series of all time. 2003's Star Wars Galaxies was a complete disaster, and once MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft came around a year later in 2004, there hasn't been a single PC game that has been able to come close to its success, with over 10 million copies sold in th... Read More »

Shown behind closed doors with no playable version just six months ago at E3, it’s surprising that Bethesda is already releasing their latest dragon-slaying, dungeon-crawling RPG. With an entirely new engine and tons of improvements, Bethesda is going all out with the latest installment in the popular Elder Scrolls franchise. So is Bethesda’s latest not only their best, but the ... Read More »

Another year, another Battlefield and Call of Duty. War. War never changes. Or does it? It's been six years since Battlefield 2 hit store shelves and we've seen a new version or expansion to the series released every year since 2005. Electronic Arts' latest Battlefield game looks to shake things up a bit in the gaming industry by making some big improvements to its graphics engine i... Read More »

Welcome to a fanboy's review of Activision's latest record-breaking blockbuster, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. First, let me introduce myself. I used to be a huge gamer, dipping into video game testing at my peak and still occasionally achievement whoring. But as I've had less and less time to enjoy the many facets of entertainment, movies is ultimately my true passion. It's a big... Read More »

Jack of all trades and master of none. It's a saying that Naughty Dog clearly doesn't believe in because they're back and once again trying to do it all with the latest installment in the now iconic Uncharted series that seems to do just about everything right. Naughty Dog has some big shoes to fill after 2009's Game of the Year, Uncharted 2, blew everyone away. With all eyes on the... Read More »