Tweet I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but I have a strange fondness for Japanese cute-em-ups. In fact, the console port of Konami’s original Otomedius is one of the reasons I bought a Japanese Xbox 360.  With 2D side-scrolling shooters not as popular as they once were, it is indeed a rare...

Tweet Majesco Entertainment has become synonymous in recent years with its localizations of the popular Cooking Mama franchise for the Western market.  Their lineup this year is impressively diverse, ranging from casual titles such as a new 3DS iteration of the aforementioned Cooking Mama franchise and a...

Tweet I want to be forward with you. Declaring Duke Nukem: Forever this week’s “Release of the Week” is in no way an endorsement telling you to run out and buy the game. In reality this is more of a warning that if you are planning a trip to hell any time soon, I would pack some snow...

Tweet This week, I was planning on playing my copy of Resistance 2: Fall of Man. But then, as part of the gaming hype machine, I saw the Catwoman trailer for the new Arkham City game. I suddenly felt like playing Arkham Asylum. Am I that easily influenced? Yeah, I guess I am. However, in my defense, Arkham...

Tweet Two days ago, Nintendo’s new Wii U was finally unveiled, sporting a new look, sleek HD visuals, backwards compatibility with Wii Remotes/games/accessories, and a unique tablet controller that looks to change the way players interact with their games.  But is Wii U a true revolution, or merely a...

Tweet New York will never be the same again after what happened to Alex Mercer. A virus spread through the city, warping and twisting it while mutating its populace. In the first Prototype you played Alex Mercer as he tried to find out what happened to him, even as his body mutated to give you the weapons...

Tweet Now that Michael and Keri are out the door of E3, Ross, Matthew and Blake have all hell break loose in podcast form.  This giddy collection of nonsense includes the team’s thoughts on everything seen on their last two days of the show.  Just remained warned that the audio quality, while rough...

Tweet The Hitman series featured some of the best stealth based gameplay of the last generation. Agent 47 was a genetically engineered super killer working for the International Contract Agency, also known simply as “The Agency.” Each stage was a different hit you had to carry out, some times on...

Tweet Final Fantasy XIII was one of those games that you either loved or hated. There never seemed to be a middle ground. With its upcoming sequel, Square Enix  seemed to hear and take into consideration a great number of complaints from the first game, and at the same time, kept many things exactly as they...

Tweet Love is not over. Catherine is, without a doubt, a very difficult game to describe. It is also, without a doubt, one of the most intriguing games I’ve come across at E3Expo this year. Atlus’s adventure-puzzle-horror hybrid has turned more than a few heads this year, and likely perplexed...