While You Were Gaming: Weekend News Recap

While You Were Gaming: Weekend News Recap

Did you enjoy one of the rare non-holiday weekends that land between Thanksgiving and New Year’s? Finish some holiday shopping perhaps? We were here picking up some of the latest gaming news. Yeah, our loved ones don’t get a Christmas because we’re so devoted to you, the reader. Feel...

Weekly Poll: What has been the Best Game Release for Fall 2010?

Weekly Poll: What has been the Best Game Release for Fall 2010?

It’s fairly divided down even thirds for your feelings on Epic Mickey. I do have one question, though, for those who didn’t care: do you have a Wii? I swear this isn’t a smartass question (it’s a first for me, I know). It’s just that if you don’t have a Wii, then it makes...

Sony’s Mysterious TV-and-PlayStation Combo

Sony’s Mysterious TV-and-PlayStation Combo

In a somewhat peculiar move that some might call a desperate bid to hold on to their former market supremacy, Sony have launched an HD Bravia TV featuring the guts of a PlayStation console. Awesome, you might think, especially if you haven’t yet joined the HD brigade and were thinking about planting...

EvilCast Recap, Episode #59

EvilCast Recap, Episode #59

It is that time of the week again, for the planets to align, a light to shine down from the heavens and the dulcet tones of Ross, Keri, Chris and Blake to ring out, discussing everything but the topic of gaming.  Somewhere along the lines, they still managed to stumble into discussions about OnLive, more...

Aladdin (SNES) Retro Review

Aladdin (SNES) Retro Review

Welcome to Game are Evil Retro Reviews. Our retro reviews are a little different. We’re going to be reviewing retro games as though they were just released yesterday. After all, a true classic should be timeless. Let’s see how yesterday’s classics stack up amongst today’s...

The Sonic Cycle: 2010 Edition

The Sonic Cycle: 2010 Edition

The Sonic Cycle. Sega fans are all too familiar with the roller coaster of expectations and disappointments that are an inevitable part of each new Sonic the Hedgehog game release.  For those unfamiliar with this formula of failure, it can be summarized as follows: A Sonic game announcement will initially...

The Rapid Release Rate and Its Effect on Stacks of Shame

The Rapid Release Rate and Its Effect on Stacks of Shame

A few weeks ago, I nicely coerced the staff here at Games are Evil to confess what’s in their stacks of shame. While I was compiling my own stack of shame, I looked very closely at what games I’ve bought this year alone, particularly those that released this year. This selection consists of...

4.1 Million PlayStation Move Units… Moved?

4.1 Million PlayStation Move Units… Moved?

Microsoft are pretty pleased with themselves right now, what with 2.5 million Kinects having been sold and all. Sony, understandably, are keen to prove that they’re not playing second fiddle to Microsoft. Because buttons are better, after all. Right? Well, the fact that Sony’s...

Gadgets are Evil: iPhone 4

Gadgets are Evil: iPhone 4

I know, I know… the iPhone 4 is old news. But you know what is new news? The fact that my parents now each have an iPhone 4. Before you get too bored, you have to understand something: My parents are the biggest technophobes and techno-clueless you could imagine. My mom still pays for an AOL account....

As Gwen Stefani would say “This ish is Bananas”

As Gwen Stefani would say “This ish is Bananas”

Alright, with my dated reference down for this news article, if you are currently in the UK and have a few spare bananas at your disposal, I’ve got the deal for you. A few retailers are making with the Donkey Kong by offering the first twenty people lined up for the game a brand new copy of Donkey...