Kutargi Is Uncharacteristically Closed Mouthed About the PSP2

Kutargi Is Uncharacteristically Closed Mouthed About the PSP2

“I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect’s blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It’s the same as that.” “With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home...

PlatinumGames Returns, Anarchy Reigns

PlatinumGames Returns, Anarchy Reigns

Fans of Bayonetta and Vanquish will be happy; SEGA has just announced the latest title from the creative, manic minds at PlatinumGames. Anarchy Reigns is described as a “multiplayer brawler set in a world where anarchy is king”. SEGA claim it “challenges the boundaries of the conventional...

California Congressman Wants Warning Labels on Games

California Congressman Wants Warning Labels on Games

You may remember a couple years back when a Congressman out of California tried passing a bill that would require health warnings on the boxes of video games. well, that man is Joe Baca (D-CA) and he is up to it again. This time, the proposed bill has a new title: “The Video Game Health Labeling Act...

Review: Star Dash (XBLA)

Review: Star Dash (XBLA)

Indie developer Rascal Haven has put forth another effort on the Xbox Live Indie Games named Star Dash. This new title has the player taking the role of their own Avatar in a mad dash to collect stars for points while racing against the clock and the screen itself to complete each of the 100...

JRPGs and the Cookie Cutter Story

JRPGs and the Cookie Cutter Story

In early December, I heard one of the women from the IGN Girl Fight podcast say that she couldn’t play JRPGs anymore, because she didn’t think she could play the same story one more time. My immediate response was, “Wait, they don’t all have the same story!” But almost as...

PSP2: The Facts

PSP2: The Facts

If you’ve been paying attention to the news on Games Are Evil, and pretty much everywhere else on the net, then you should know full well that Sony is finally letting the PSP2 make its debut (as well as other new Playstation announcements) at a press event in Tokyo (which took place early this...

Last Guardian Release Date?

Last Guardian Release Date?

Team ICO has been toying with us about Last Guardian since the ambiguous trailer shown at E3 two years ago. We expected to hear quite a bit at E3 2010, and then nothing. But now, after hearing so very, very little about this gorgeous game, it seems that it may in fact have a release day for this...

Community Question of the Week: 3DS or Duke?

Community Question of the Week: 3DS or Duke?

Last week we had two relatively large pieces of news fill the internet. The first was that we finally have a solid release date and price for the Big N’s newest handheld: the 3DS. The rumors poured in after last year’s E3 that this hot new hardware was going to run close to $300. Well, now we know...

Video Games “Kill Babies”… Again

Video Games “Kill Babies”… Again

Five-month old Mikara Ranui Jarius Reti from New Zealand died on the evening of January 11 this year. His mother found him alone with her partner, 21-year old Trent Owen Ngaruhe Hapuku, who has now been charged with manslaughter. The baby’s death resulted from critical blunt-force injury to the...

Explodemon Is Coming!

Explodemon Is Coming!

Everyone loves the quirky heyday of the Super NES era in which localizations of Japanese titles were hit or miss and premises were downright insane. Coming from Curve Studios exclusively for the Sony PlayStation 3 is Explodemon, a twelve-level 2.5D action platformer in the vein of Super Mario Bros. and...