Review: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS3/360)

Review: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS3/360)

Tweet It’s ULTIMATE Mahvel, baby. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 launched to much fanfare nine months ago. Now, though crumbs of Pringles still litter the landscape and there’s still leftover Haagen Dazs in the fridges of fighting game fans worldwide, a new update (more than an add-on, less than a sequel)...

Review: Saints Row: The Third

Review: Saints Row: The Third

Tweet The Saints Row franchise is one that is easily looked over or dismissed. On the surface it appears to be just another Grand Theft Auto ripoff. Both franchises are third-person open world games taking place in a city that you and your gang are attempting to take over. In that respect Saints Row: The...

Release of the Week: Infinity Blade II (iOS)

Release of the Week: Infinity Blade II (iOS)

Tweet It isn’t very often that the week’s biggest game is on the iOS. Publishers tend to push rather hard to get their games out before Black Friday as they apparently want to make money. Downloadable games, especially those in the mobile space, aren’t as particular. This is especially true...

EvilCast Recap, Episode #105

EvilCast Recap, Episode #105

Tweet Now that the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us, Blake, Ross, Keri, and Chris considered taking a week off.  Then they realized that no one had any special Thanksgiving plans to prevent recording.  Does this means that nobody loves them?  Choosing to take the high road, they shunned talk of holiday...

Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Tweet “And the best selling game of 2011 goes to…” If history is any indicator of the future, it would be a safe bet that Activision’s cash cow, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, will be among the highest selling releases of the year, if not of all time.  Though the franchise has been...

Review: Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)

Review: Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)

Tweet When Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 for the Nintendo 64, it took Mario out of his flat screen roots and placed him squarely in the third dimension. What is rarely spoken of is all the things that were lost in the transition. Many of these things were staples of Mario’s identity. Gone was the...

Release of the Week: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)

Release of the Week: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)

Tweet There was once a time when grown men would cry when a new Legend of Zelda game was announced. The 25 year-old franchise is second only to Mario when it comes to Nintendo’s most valuable and beloved intellectual properties. In a time when Nintendo has gone from the most successful console...

EvilCast Recap, Episode #104

EvilCast Recap, Episode #104

Tweet Third time is the charm, right?  Sure it may take Ross, Keri, Chis and Blake three restarts to actually come up with an acceptable podcast intro, but at least they care about the quality of the show.  Aww, who the hell are they kidding…  In this fustercluck of an episode our favorite hosts...

Review: Uncharted 3

Review: Uncharted 3

Tweet When it comes to creating ground breaking and highly marketable characters, the team over at Naughty Dog are in a pantheon all their own.  In the last fifteen years alone Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Nathan Drake have emerged from the studio.  The birth of the PlayStation 3 era was ushered in...

Review: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (360/PS3)

Review: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (360/PS3)

Tweet Due to a mysterious delay in Metal Gear Solid: Rising‘s development, stealth-craving gamers this holiday season are greeted instead with a compilation of classic titles from the long-running series.  Kojima’s classic series is reborn on current-generation consoles with a high definition...