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...

Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta was originally released to Japanese arcades on the NAOMI arcade hardware. Now, this unusual shoot-em-up with a mouthful of a title (translated literally as Little Mamoru Got Cursed!) finally comes to the PS3 with new enhancements to boot. The first disc-release...

So the new Medal of Honor game launches in less than two weeks, and unless you’re a tremendously big MoH fan, you might not have realized that. It’s this lack of market permeation that has led at least one analyst to declare EA’s latest shooter a runner-up in the pageant of “Best...

Game: Alan Wake Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Remedy Entertainment Genre: Horror/Shooter Price: $59.99 Pros: Creepy atmosphere, very well put together in all respects Cons: Kinda short, a bit confusing; how long will we have to wait for a proper sequel? Alan Wake has been in pre-production...

Platform: Xbox 360 (XBLA) Developer/Publisher: Premium Agency/Square Enix Genre: Twin-Stick Shooter Verdict: Death by Cube attempts to innovate and expand on its predecessors in the genre, with often mixed results. Pros: Demands a strategy that other twin-stick shooters often don’t; world-based...

Brink is an upcoming first-person shooter (FPS) being developed by Splash Damage and published by the good folks at Bethesda, and it looks like it could take the FPS world by storm. Brink seeks to merge a FPS, a plot-based storyline, and cooperative online gameplay, with up to eight players in co-op. Other...

In the new (we assume dual-stick) shooter, 0 Day Attack On Earth, players assume the heavy responsibility of a unique challenge: Saving Earth. Ok, not so unique in the scheme of things, but whatevs. Also? Kind of a basic name, right? Anyway, Players avoid enemy bullets, shoot said enemies with their own...

Escapist Games Limited announced today that they will be releasing a version of the PC/iPhone/PSP  popular Platypus for Xbox Live Indy Games.  Platypus is a side scrolling shooter made entirely out of clay.  So just like claymation, each object and frame has been tenderly sculpted to be the game that...

If sci-fi is your thing – and, let’s face it, it probably is if you’re a gamer – then your interest may have been piqued by Shattered Horizon.  The futuristic shooter is set in space after a mining colony on the moon suffers colossal disaster, and huge chunks of the moon...

Back in the day I never really played that many online multiplayer games. Actually for the most part, I still don’t. In a rare exception to the rule, one game that I did play on occasion was Tribes Online. Section 8 immediately brought back all the fun memories that I had of that game, and then...