Tweet The lovely ladies of Dead or Alive are back, and this time, they’re portable.  In recent years the Dead or Alive series has become more well known for moe fanservice resort dress-up simulators and mini-games  (DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball and its sequel) than hardcore fighting, so it is...

Tweet It is decidedly the Age of the Remake.  Many game companies, faced with an ever-expanding audience of potential gamers, are choosing to tap into their IP vaults to create something new out of something very, very old.  Some titles, such as Capcom’s 8-bit Megaman sequels, survived the test of...

Tweet RRRRRRRIIIIIIIDDDDDGGGGGGEEEEEEE RRRRRAAAACCCCCEEEEERRRR! Well, actually that is a lie. Sega Rally Online Arcade is a downloadable rally game from – yes, you guessed it, Sega – that channels arcade racing games of old while adding a new coat of paint to the package. Although it is easy to...

Tweet “When death smiles, lolis smile back”…again.  Welcome to Hell’s Merry Christmas. The original DeathSmiles was one of the first games from Japanese developer CAVE to make the trip overseas with a full localization, courtesy of niche publisher Aksys Games.  It was also the first...

Tweet When it comes to things that go together, video games and sports mix like chocolate and peanut butter. Living vicariously through digital avatars is an activity that has existed for as long as the hobby has been around, and there is no better analog between real life and fantasy than racing. Now that...

Tweet Outland is a gorgeous 2D platformer with a beautiful silhouette aesthetic. The world comes to life in what can only be described as an incredibly smart, refined, and fluid 2D platformer set inside the visual stylings of a jungle shadow box, or animated black felt impressionist canvas. It’s truly...

Tweet Mortal Kombat has surely been through many drab releases over the past few years. The latest release turns the tide on these hohum games and takes the fighter back to its dark, violent, and extremely fun roots. The game includes a bounty of things to do starting with a surprisingly...

Tweet Hector: Badge of Carnage wants you to cringe. It seems like the developers of Hector want you to contemplate whether you should even continue playing in the first minutes of the game. Fans of the adventure genre will no doubt be surprised when they boot up Hector for the first time. The game starts...

Tweet It is finally time to bury the term “for a Wii game.” The overused review qualifier that was imagined as a means to quell the fervent and insistent Nintendo fanbase has become a liability that has lead to the creation of a bias towards an underpowered system with ambitions far beyond its scope. The...

Tweet With Apple’s iOS making definitive strides into the ever budding gaming market, it would seem reasonable to expect that some titles may attempt to make the jump from a device like iPad to the Mac–a process that has been aided even more so by the rapid growth of the Mac App Store. However,...