Though the RPG-turned-fighting-game Persona 4: Arena (otherwise known as P4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena) won’t be hitting PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 until August, the game has been white-hot in Japanese arcades running the NESiCA x Live platform for several months now.  GamesAreEvil is currently on location in Nagoya, Japan, and we were able to put...

It’s a relatively slow week in terms of game releases. Well, there is Resistance: Burning Skies and Retro City Rampage on the PlayStation Vita, but who owns one of those things? Thankfully the PC edition of Max Payne 3 is a little late getting here, which gives me a chance to discus it. After all, it’s gutsy to launch your AAA game against Diablo...

Spring has sprung in North America, triumphantly signaling the return of America’s Pastime.  The smells of freshly cut grass and even fresher grilled brats, set against the combined cacophony of street vendors and bellowing umpires, can bring out the kid in all of us.  While many would prefer to spend their lazy Saturday afternoons at the ballpark, there...

Sorcery is the latest game from developers The Workshop and SCE Santa Monica Studio. Gamers will play as a young magic user who must employ a variety of spells and potions to combat enemies and solve puzzles! Announced at E3 2010, Sorcery was shown off as the killer app for Sony’s new PlayStation Move peripheral. For those of you who can’t remember,...

What do you get when you cross four disgruntled gamers with microphones?  You get the best damn podcast since the invention of the internet, that’s what!  Okay, maybe that might be overselling them a bit, but Ross, Keri, Chris and Blake are back once again to discuss all things gaming for the last seven days.  This week’s topics included 38...

Say what you will about empire-building, 4X style strategy games, but if there is one genre that will get me to turn my PC on in a heartbeat, it’s these. I even went out and got a new computer just to play Civilization V. Games like Sins of the Solar Empire always had me sitting there on my computer for hours. So when a game of this fashion comes around, and...

Diablo II is one of the most popular and influential games of all time. The game launched back in June 2000, only a few months after the PlayStation 2 launched in Japan, and yet the game is still being sold at retail. The Diablo: Battle Chest was still the 19th best selling PC game in 2008 and was still hitting top 10 lists as recent as 2010. The game is a major...

Not only is Chris back this week from his adventures abroad, but we also have a special guest, Mike Deneen, of the Yet Another Gaming Show! This stellar cast, along with Blake, Keri and Ross dug into the meaty topics of Minecraft’s massive XBLA success, the possibility of Internet Explorer on the Xbox, and the ramifications of Bioshock: Infinite getting...

Microsoft and Apple have been at war for control of the living room for most of the past decade. In fact, the entire motive behind the Xbox in the first place was to create a trojan horse that would allow Microsoft a place in every American living room. Looking at it this way, it stands to reason that Microsoft never truly cared about the gaming industry in the...

While zombie fever has died down somewhat (no pun intended), “ghoul”-sanity still lives on in the hearts of fans of The Walking Dead franchise.  Both the graphic novels and television show have spawned a love of the doomsday scenario in both young and old.  So it is no surprise that Robert Kirkman and company would expand their property into the gaming...

The Walking Dead: Episode 1 is the perfect game for fans of The Walking Dead franchise. In other words, this isn’t another game where you run around and shoot zombies with a near endless supply of weaponry. This experience is more about interacting with other characters, building relationships with them and making tough choices. Telltale has carefully...

Warhawk was a one of the great early PlayStation 3 games and was Sony’s way to highlight some of the features of their new system. It was the first title shown with the new Sixaxis motion controls at E3 in 2006. It was also the first PlayStation game to be available on both a Blu-ray disc and available to download on the PlayStation Network. The full $60...

MAN DOWN! MAN DOWN!  With Chris away in the tropics, this week the blood alcohol level of the episode was about eighty percent lower than usual.  Don’t worry, there were still plenty of rambling discussions to be had anyway.  Some of the items on the hit list included potential Kickstarter tomfoolery, Draw Something’s user base bottoming out, and...