Tweet Release: Jan 21 2009 (US), Jan 31 2009 (UK) Developer: Black Box Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Alternative Sports Skate 2 is a difficult game; it’s a game of skill.  In many ways it evokes a sense of gaming’s retro past in just how taxing it can be; both o your command of the control...

Tweet I had high hopes for this; being both a fan of the Tom Clancy games (especially since I was one of the few people who bought EndWar on day one, it seems) and of less-than-sim flight games, this was potentially a match made in heaven. I also managed to play this title at the EG EXPO in London last year,...

Tweet [A note from the Evil Editor™: We're continually striving to separate ourselves from the pack of carbon copy gaming sites out there. To that end, we've decided to phase out simply "reporting the news" and instead serve up conversations about it. This, then, is our first stab at that...] Before we...

Tweet Release: Feb 10 2009 Developer: EA North Carolina Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Arcade Racing Pros: Amusing characters, emphasizes teamwork, shallow learning curve, four player split screen Cons: Rubberband AI, not enough variety, power-ups are clones of Mario Kart items NASCAR is an American...

Tweet Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE IN iTUNES Those Decepticons are back to their old destructive ways and this time you can join in the...

Tweet Capcom has confirmed that Dead Rising 2 is in development for three different platforms; Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Dead Rising 2, in the words of Capcom, will; “take the franchise to a new level of zombie killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies..” While thousands of...

Tweet It’s beginning to look like third party publishers will be focusing more on the Wii in 2009.  Nintendo fared far better than many game companies and developers in the recent economic downturn.  In a recent conference call with Gameindustry.biz Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, commented,...

Tweet In anticipation of the upcoming Transformers film from DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will allow players to step into the shoes of the Autobots or the Decepticons, with the largest and most diverse range of playable Transformers to date. Set in unique...

Tweet Release Date: Feb 04 2009 Developer: Southend Interactive Publisher: Microsoft Genre: Shooter Pros: Enduring gameplay, unforgiving difficulty, HD graphics. Cons: No replay function, steep cost. In our contemporary times the global economy has resigned itself to walking the streets at night in tight...

Tweet At first glance, the environment around us looks to be nothing special. Certainly nothing worth fighting over. Barren, cracked ground stretches out across the horizon, occasionally broken by whichever exotic looking plant has managed to win the fight for water. Ruins blight the landscape on what could...