Evolve
Four on one? No problem. 2K and Turtle Rock Studios bring us the full release of this asymmetrical, multiplayer driven action/shooter that relishes in tweaking conventions and attempts to give us a fresh experience in an otherwise crowded genre.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Havoc
Advanced Warfare fans, the wait is over. It is officially DLC season! Sledgehammer's first round of extra content is now available for Xbox LIVE members in the form of Havoc. The customary four new multiplayer maps are met by a new assault rifle and a new spin on the classic CoD Zombies experience.
Forza Horizon 2: Storm Island
With only a few days before Christmas, it looks like there's a storm coming! The Xbox exclusive racer Forza Horizon 2 is getting its first expansion in the form of Storm Island. This $20 add-on features brand new terrain, vehicles, events, and Championships that'll push your car control skills to the max.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
If, indeed, "the seeds of our future are sown in his past," then the future looks very bright. Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries have coalesced the "numbered" Halo entries into one set. All campaign and multiplayer elements of each game have been included, along with the Anniversary debut of Halo 2, making this the definitive Halo experience.
Evolve Big Alpha Impressions
When I first saw the pre-rendered Happy Hunting trailer for Evolve, I was entranced. The eerie setting of the jungle, great musical tone set by Lissie's cover of "Mother" by Danzig, and the reveal of what this group of human beings is after, a giant monster. From the onset, it was clear Turtle Rock Studios wanted to do something ambitious: create an entire game with a stark "numbers" imbalance....[Read More]
Project Spark
Game development for dummies + a seemingly endless amount of playable creations = a pretty good time. Microsoft Studios and the newly minted Team Dakota recently took the "beta" label off of Project Spark, a game that is all about empowering players to dabble a bit in making games of their own and being able to instantly share them with all of the other Spark players around the world. Now that i...[Read More]
Forza Horizon 2
With the holidays fast approaching, it's time to rev up those next-gen engines! A wave of open world racing titles releasing in the latter stages of 2014 and early '15 begins on the Xbox One with the sequel to Forza's expansion franchise from Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games that puts a premium on addictive, fun gameplay while adhering to some of the "finer points" of Forza Motorsport's linea...[Read More]
South Park: The Complete Seventeenth Season
Right before their 18th birthday, the boys are back on Blu-ray! With the new season starting next week on Comedy Central, Paramount has treated us with the release of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's 2013 episodes that packed all the normal laughter, surprise, and shock into ten stellar episodes. Despite the "scaling back" in terms of chapter count, the presentation and insightful extras keeps the m...[Read More]
The Blacklist: The Complete First Season
He's made a list, and he's only checking it once. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing the DVD set for the first season of a crime/mystery/suspense caper starring James Spader and Megan Boone. Solid episodic formatting is hampered by some rigidly stock characters and too many chapters.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare — Multiplayer Preview
I was flown out to beautiful San Francisco to get a hands-on, first look at the multiplayer side of Advanced Warfare. When it was announced that Activision would be placing each installment of the CoD franchise on a three year development cycle, Sledgehammer Games was tapped as the new studio to stand alongside Infinity Ward and Treyarch to ensure fans will have a brand new game every holiday sea...[Read More]
Call of Duty: Ghosts Nemesis
Call of Duty fans, prepare to face your final, Nemesis! The last DLC pack for Ghosts is here: four new multiplayer maps and the defining final chapter in the Extinction anthology.
Bad Grandpa .5
Hold on to your tuckus, Irving is back! Paramount Digital Entertainment brings us a supplemental feature to last years Bad Grandpa, with an extended look at some of the main production elements as well as a swath of footage that didn't make the cut.