War games have always been fascinating to me. I’m not talking the action packed Call of Duties or the bloody and gruesome Gears of Wars either.  I’m talking your down-right strategy games; games that require a great deal of patience, skill and thinking to them. Sure, you have to have brains and be...

In the ocean of modern cover-based shooters currently on the market, does Biart’s new offering hold water against the competition?  Hold your breath and dive in. Title: Deep Black Reloaded Publisher: Biart Developer: Biart Genre: Action/Cover-Based Shooter Price: $29.99                   ...

Publishers?  Who needs ‘em? Apparently not Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Studios.  After creating one of the most blatant examples of a corporate “sellout” title in recent years, coupled with one of the most awkward and creepy E3 conference moments in history (Sesame Street: Once Upon...

Normally the week before Christmas is pretty quiet as far as major releases go. A couple generic titles might make an appearance, but with gifts already purchased a major game would do better releasing in the new year. Star Wars: The Old Republic is breaking this trend in a big way. This isn’t just a...

There was a time not to long ago when the market was absolutely flooded with World War 2 shooters. This changed when Infinity Ward made the somewhat gutsy decision to move their franchise shooter Call of Duty into the current era with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. After that the copycats followed and the...

Game Time: City of Heroes: Going Rogue (PC) In any MMO, the player may come to dislike something about their character (toon, avatar, etc…) well my character Funky Sunshine suffered this and got little play from me. I loved his background. Who could not love a 20 something young man, trained in the...

According to this tweet, and as reported on the Unknown Gamer blog, Magicka, the new sensation from Paradox, is getting PvP. As soon as they finish up the Magicka: Vietnam expansion, they’ll be putting out the player vs player additions. According to Shams Jorjani, Magicka’s producer, “The...

Gamers probably spending 90% of there time killing three groups of creatures: aliens, terrorists and zombies. This weeks biggest release focuses on the later of the trio. Capcom’s latest iteration of their zombie killing series is back! Unlike other games that are centered around the living dead, Dead...

Software piracy is something that really rubs me the wrong way.  As a developer of PC software (not of the gaming variety) it makes me especially irritated when game studios chose to release a game DRM-free as a show of good faith, only to have it exploited to hell and back by the selfish masses. ...

Well, ALMOST half: Of the 44.8 million PC games sold in the US last year, 21.3 million of them, that’s 48%, were digital downloads. Physical unit sales only just managed to top that figure with 23.5 million, despite a year-on-year decline in physical game sales, notes the NPD report. That’s a...