Microsoft and Apple have been at war for control of the living room for most of the past decade. In fact, the entire motive behind the Xbox in the first place was to create a trojan horse that would allow Microsoft a place in every American living room. Looking at it this way, it stands to reason that...

What happens when you fuse the fling-happy gameplay of Angry Birds with the random and chaotic physics based gameplay of pinball, while tossing the whole thing into space? Well, you get Star Drone Extreme. The game has some things holding it back however. We’ll get to the heavy stuff near the...

We’ve got new hardware in the form of the PlayStation Vita, and as such, it seems only fitting for the platform to have it’s own mini-game compliation to break in all the new feaatures that come with new hardware. Does Little Deviants manage to set itself apart from past generations...

Pool games get a bad rap, being relegated to the far background of the virtual sports community. Though truth being told, virtual pool games are more or less the same when it comes down to it. What matters most when dissecting them is the physics, interface, and setting. Hustle Kings is the best improvement...

The block puzzle genre has fallen out of the good graces of the console gaming community in recent years. Even Tetris – the genre’s mighty forefather – is taken for granted in this day where disposable cell-phone titles rule the puzzle gaming land. You can hardly find Tetris on dedicated gaming...

The average age of today’s traditional Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 owner is 37. A couple of years ago that number was 35. Looking back near the start of the generation, that number was 30. Notice a trend? Every time the age of the current gaming demographic is surveyed by one organization or another,...

TNT Racers is basically a throwback to the top-down arcade racers of the 8-bit days. If you’ve ever played a kart racer, or an arcade racer from the early 90s, you’ll know what to expect. Think of RC Pro AM or Rock n’ Roll Racing for a comparison. The sad thing however is that TNT Racers...

We take midnight launches for granted nowadays. Every time a major title rolls down the pipeline, players expect to line up at midnight at their local GameStop and prepare to hand over their $60, rain, shine, or hurricane. It’s not an exaggeration really. I’ve seen nearly 1,000 players stand in...

Firstly, it must be admitted that we don’t live in as awesome an era as we did in the late 90s, in regards to “extreme content.” Entertainment today must be politically correct, so everything goes through the PR department now. Things were different in the late 90s. In 1998, the NFL was...

I’m sort of known as the local “horder” amongst my group of friends. I collect video games and video game memorabilia, and I rarely sell my games after completing them. Walking into my game room can often feel like walking into a video game museum in many ways, but unlike most collectors I...