Sometimes you just have to sit back and be thankful for indie devs. With the cost of game development as high as it is now, most of the cool new ideas aren’t coming from the big publisher houses anymore. Leave it to ACE Team (creators of Zeno Clash) to come up with something as wacky, original, and...

When DeadRising 2: Off the Record was first announced earlier this year, a lot of fans were left with more questions than answers: what exactly is this product? Why reuse the locale of Dead Rising 2 but with a different main character? What was the design methodology behind all of this? And most...

Zen Studios deserves a lot of credit for bringing pinball back to the fold of interactive entertainment. When the era of arcades gave way to video game consoles, it was easy for players to forget about pinball. High scores became secondary to “beating” games and players have gradually come to...

The results are in from the poll last week, and they are not too far off from what I would expect. Just about everyone enjoys video games for a variety of reasons, be it the story, pretty visuals, as an escape from life, or an abundance of many other factors. The end result is still the same; we all enjoy...

Not much has changed since our hands-on with the game back at E3, but SEGA did have a few surprises in store for its Sonic Generations showing here at PAX. For those unfamiliar with the game, here’s a brief summary. The player takes control of both “retro” Sonic and “modern”...

I had a really hard time enjoying Kirby’s Epic Yarn, last year’s Wii outing featuring Nintendo fans’ favorite pink puffball. Maybe it was the childish dubbing, the lack of challenge in progressing through the game, or the unorthodox gameplay quirks (when compared to other titles in the...

Lord of the Rings: War in the North could be seen as a spiritual successor to the Lord of the Rings strategy games released on the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and original XBOX several years ago. The gameplay of Snowblind Studios’ new side story in the Lord of the Rings universe takes more than a few...

Football season is right around the corner. Its the time for Fantasy Football drafts, speculation on Brett Favre’s return and another edition of Madden. Yes, the long running football franchise is back once again, even if the season itself was in question. Unfortunately it looks like most of the...

Do you have what it takes to be a soldier in the war of the Gangs of Gotham? At first glance, Gotham City Impostors seemed like little more than a traditional multiplayer-focused first-person shooter. However, after diving into the game for a little while, the expansive array of customization options, solid...

You’re a cheerleader, and your high school has been completely infested by zombies. That simply won’t do, so you grab your heart-covered chainsaw and your partner-in-crime (a severed head), and begin dispensing justice in the goriest way possible. Yes, it’s just as ridiculous as it sounds,...