Tweet The Force was somewhat strong with Soul Calibur IV, but it was held back by a combination of controversial guest characters, egregious DLC, and a fighting system that wasn’t very friendly to high-level tournament play.  Three years later, Project Soul is back with a new title in the...

Tweet What do legendary pitcher Curt Schilling, best selling author R. A. Salvatore and famed game designer Ken Rolston have in common? They’re all working hard to bring out the first big RPG in the post Skyrim era. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the debut title from 38 Studios and is a game you...

Tweet In Japan, Gundam is everywhere.  It’s literally impossible to walk two steps in Tokyo without encountering some sort of franchised product featuring the giant robot-themed series.  There are more Gundam console video games than versions of Madden or Call of Duty (by far), and they continue to...

Tweet This week is predominately dedicated to downloadable content. Several of last year’s biggest games are getting content updates. Rise of the Rakghouls is the first content update for the new MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. Gears of War 3 is getting its third major content update with the Fenix...

Tweet When it comes to creating ground breaking and highly marketable characters, the team over at Naughty Dog are in a pantheon all their own.  In the last fifteen years alone Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Nathan Drake have emerged from the studio.  The birth of the PlayStation 3 era was ushered in...

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 entry in the House of the Dead franchise takes the original Wii-exclusive release and brings it to the PS3 with a high-definition makeover, PlayStation Move support, and a glut of new content (including two brand-new stages). The result is a game that, while not perfect, manages to scratch that...

Tweet Uncharted is perhaps the single most important PlayStation 3 exclusive IP. Uncharted 2 won over 200 game of the year awards on the way to selling nearly 5 million copies worldwide. This week Naughty Dog hopes to do it again with Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. This time instead of a hulking...

Tweet Batman: Arkham Asylum was a bit of a pleasant surprise when it came out in 2009. It was a gritty game with a fantastic combat and stealth system that provided the nostalgia of animated series without the cheesy reality of the show. Good atmosphere and game mechanics made Arkham Asylum the first truly...

Tweet “In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.” Etched across the bottom of the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game rulebook, this saying completely epitomizes the 40k universe. There have been many video games that have ventured into Games Workshop’s world during its nearly 25...