Tweet Firstly, it must be admitted that we don’t live in as awesome an era as we did in the late 90s, in regards to “extreme content.” Entertainment today must be politically correct, so everything goes through the PR department now. Things were different in the late 90s. In 1998, the NFL was...

Tweet The popular mobile game Fruit Ninja is making its way to the 360 this week as a part of the Summer of Arcade. In the mobile space, gamers have used their fingers to slash juice produce via a touch screen. As anyone will tell you, this will leave the player disappointingly stationary and calm. This is a...

Tweet Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is the latest game featured in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade. It can be described as a Metroid-vania style exploration adventure shooter game. You control an alien in a spaceship who must collect various tools in order to progress. Tools include various...

Tweet It’s the middle of July, which means the days are long and the sun is hot. It also means that all the AAA games are having the finishing touches put on as they prepare for a jam packed holiday season. That used to mean a slow release schedule and time for gamers to catch up with their stack of...

Tweet Normally June means a slow down in game releases. People are going outside and taking vacations, so game sales tend to drop as consumers leave the couch behind. It is unusual, then, for so many games to be released this week.  For example, F.3.A.R. is a messed up psychological thriller that might...

Tweet Today, GamesAreEvil was alive and live tweeting the Microsoft press conference as it took place this morning in LA, for better or worse. Take a look at today’s comedic highlights followed by an overview from some of our staffers at the bottom. Way to go Microsoft, so Halo 4? Okay Microsoft...

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 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 Diablo Clone: Though many would consider this to be the mark of inferiority–showing that a game couldn’t establish itself enough to warrant its own description–others see this as a badge of honor. And who else would be more fitting to carry the Diablo torch than former members of...