EA and Valve follow up the hit game Left 4 Dead with the equally interesting sequel Left 4 Dead 2. The big question here is, "Can a game with such a simple premise really top itself again?" Let's find out.

I jumped into the newest Dragon Ball game from Namco with little to no experience with previous Dragon Ball games, or the Dragon Ball universe for that matter. As such, I can't draw interesting comparisons between Raging Blast and previous Dragon Ball titles like Burst Limit or the Budokai Tenkaichi series, but I can say that as a fan of fighting games, Raging Blast offers some compelling reasons ...[Read More]

All you Xbox junkies out there have been waiting for this one. The wait was worth it.

There's something about games that take a unique twist on an old story or fable that are inherently interesting to me. Looking back, American McGee's Alice still holds a special place in my gaming library as being wickedly unique and awesome. In the meantime, there have been a handful of other releases in that niche genre. Fairytale Fights from Playlogic is one such game. This hack and slash, bloo...[Read More]

I stopped playing Grand Theft Auto IV a few hours shy of the triple digit count. Two pigeons kept me from 100% perfection, but I gleefully devoured every other morsel of the offline experience. I picked the retail disc up for my Playstation 3, which meant I was out of luck if I ever wanted to play the Xbox350-exclusive downloadable content. For those of us in the same boat, or if you want it all o...[Read More]

While I appreciated the different aim for The Lost and Damned, the grimy overlay failed to appeal to me. I didn’t care for the biker theme, the music that blared over the safe house, or the personalities behind the characters. The world was masterfully reinterpreted for the new take on Liberty City, but it just didn’t connect with my tastes. The Ballad of Gay Tony, on the other hand, g...[Read More]

With Need For Speed taking a decidedly more sim based approach earlier this year with SHIFT, and Sony's Gran Turismo 5 still some months away from release, Microsoft and Turn 10 have just made the new Forza Motorsport available to race fans everywhere. Not to be outdone by any racing title available now and even perhaps in the future, Forza 3 is a remarkably complete and fully competent package th...[Read More]

Soccer where have you been all my life?

Things you should know before this review begins. I was at Wrestlemania V in Atlantic City. I still fully believe that the WWE should be the WWF. My favorite tag team folks are/were the British Bulldogs. Most importantly, I've played every wrestling game since the Wrestlemania game in the arcades. There's a good start.

For all you Guitar Hero lovers out there, you haven't seen tricky until you've met DJ Hero.

  I love pleasant surprises. Having not spent much time at all over the years with JRPGs, I expected a long, tough go with Magna Carta 2 (MC2) when it came in for review. At the same time, I was excited, because MC2 is a textbook JRPG and I was eager to dive into the genre. I'm happy to say that, twelve hours or so later, I'm still a long ways from completing this two disc, 40+ hour epic -- but I'...[Read More]

Gearbox Software, developers of the acclaimed Half-Life and Brothers In Arms series, teamed up with renowned publisher 2K Games to release Borderlands earlier this month. Borderlands is what Gearbox calls an RPS, a style of gameplay that is best described as an RPG crossed with a FPS. There have been first person RPGs before, but nothing quite like what has been done here with Borderlands. Let's t...[Read More]