Tweet Gaming’s favorite vampire vixen has been in retirement for a long, long time.  After three (THREE!) Uwe Boll movies and franchise publisher Majesco deciding to focus on the casual Cooking Mama crowd, the Bloodrayne franchise roars back into gaming relevance courtesy of developer WayForward...

Tweet Elevator Action is a classic 1983 arcade game from Taito that showed up right at the dawn of the great arcade crash, which pretty much decimated the industry from over-population. This has made Elevator Action one of the more obscure classics of the era. Since that day, it hasn’t seen a whole lot...

Tweet Ever see a bowl of fruit and want to mess that shit up? I know, me too. Developer Halfbrick Games had that same primal urge as well and created an ode to slicing and dicing fruit with the destructive force of a Margaritaville Blender, Fruit Ninja. Game: Fruit Ninja Kinect Publisher: Halfbrick...

Tweet Ever had one of those crunchy wafer cookies? You know—the rectangular ones with the criss-cross pattern. They’re mostly air inside, and not a ton of flavor. That’s Hector: Badge of Carnage Episode 2. Except the cookie tastes vaguely of England. Game: Hector: Badge of Carnage Episode 2 Publisher:...

Tweet After being betrayed by the Seven Deities and locked in a deep slumber for several thousand years, demigod Asura awakens to a changed world ruled by the very gods who betrayed him. His memory is fuzzy, his daughter is missing, and he’s angry…very, very angry. That may not be such a bad...

Tweet Grab your Pringles and your Haagen Daaz and get started on growing your “Curleh mustache,” because Mahvel is back, baby! Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 can be described as a Super Street Fighter 4-esque psuedosequel to the original Marvel vs. Capcom 3: everything the original was, plus a...

Tweet 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,...

Tweet 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...

Tweet The Year is 2027.  Mankind is teetering on the brink of social implosion over the escalating conflict of biological “augmentations.”  Referred to as “enhancements” by those fortunate enough to afford the technology, these organic proxies have drawn criticism for tainting the...

Tweet There are two things in this world that greatly please me. Those two things are Tequila shots and looking back on the Cold War era and remembering only what I want to remember. Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Cold War) itches my Cold War scratch with a fantastically hilarious take on an equally–if not...