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...

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...

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...

Tweet This week is the single biggest week of the year in terms of the number of the quantity of huge titles hitting store shelves. It seems like every major publisher is throwing their champion into the ring. Nintendo is hoping to drive 3DS sales with Super Mario 3D Land on Sunday. Microsoft is bringing out...

Tweet I’m going to be honest. I’ve been a big Sonic fan since 1991. The Genesis classics were platforming perfection. I also enjoyed the Dreamcast years with Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, as well as Sonic Heroes. While none were perfect, each tried to capture the essence of a Sonic game. When Sega...

Tweet This week gamers are going to have to wait all the way until Friday for the week’s biggest release. Of course, how could you let a novelty date like 11/11/11 go by without such a big game? Bethesda is doing us all a favor releasing the next title in their legendary open world RPG series on a...

Tweet Dear Activision, Hi there, Max Powers here, loyal video game player for decades running and someone crazy enough to write game reviews. I’ve been playing your games for a long time and we have to talk. I know what people have been saying behind your back and it isn’t pretty. I’m not going to talk...

Tweet On August 25th, 2009, gamers were treated to one of the most pleasant surprises to hit video games since the invention of Jumpman.  After being bombarded with an endless stream of terrible superhero inspired video games, Rocksteady Studios finally managed to knock on out of the park with their smash...

Tweet “Roolllliiinnnnggggg Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart!” For such an arcade classic, Daytona USA has a complicated history with consoles. For being the highest grossing arcade game of all time, you’d think it would be easy to port home. Sega tried to do it on Saturn in 1994, but the hardware...

Tweet This week’s biggest release isn’t the most interesting of games, but it is one of the most heavily advertised. EA and EA DICE are taking a second shot at dethroning Call of Duty as the premier military first-person shooter on the market. While they aren’t likely to overthrow Call of...