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 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 Gamers rejoice! Not only is the PSN back online, but two huge games debut this week. The PC crowd gets The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, a must own for fans of Action RPGs. Polish developer CD Projekt’s 2007 hit redefined morality in games. The decisions made by the players weren’t simply...

Tweet Grand Theft Auto IV and its subsequent expansions are often hailed as one of the brightest spots of gaming’s current generation. While millions have already enjoyed the main game as well as add-ons “The Lost and the Damned” and “The Ballad of Gay Tony” there are still some...

Tweet From time to time (read: whenever we feel like it) two members of the Portable Gamer staff will cut their workload in half by co-authoring a review. What they never realize is that it actually results in behemoth-sized pieces which, upon seeing, cause our editors to run away screaming...

Tweet Release: Feb 17 2009 Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games Genre: Action, Adventure ***Post-release content is a somewhat different beast to full retail titles and as such we do not currently award fixed scores to such products. The Lost and Damned redefines what the increasingly...

Tweet Top Global Reports, a joint venture between gaming retail monitors Enterbrain (Japan), Gfk Chart Track (UK) and NPD (US), has today announced its findings for the entirety of 2008.  The report found that total games sales had increased 11% from 367.7 million units to 409.9 million. Across individual...

Tweet This week it’s Rockstar’s rather exciting Steam portfolio getting the fiscal chop (a 30% chop, to be precise). Amongst the deals are the recently released Grand Theft Auto IV; perhaps a sign that PC sales aren’t doing as well as T2 would have liked? Or maybe Steam negotiated the deal...

Tweet We know you’ve heard that the Grand Theft Auto series is coming to the DS, right? Well, if not, here’s the teaser page at Rockstar Games. I”m not sure sure if this game will adequately make the translation to the DS, but I’m hoping they don’t just make it a puzzle game...