Is it reasonable to think that the Wii is entering its final holiday season this year? With the Wii U announced for 2012, and the forecast for upcoming titles, especially exclusives, looking bleak, it may be time to start thinking about that 'best games on the Wii' list. If I were a betting man, I would think that Konami's No More Heroes, released in 2007, would make that list, but frankly I never...[Read More]

Madden NFL has returned! While this NFL season wasn't guaranteed, the emergence of another Madden NFL title was and shall always be a guarantee year end and year out. Much like the new labor agreement that the players have established with the league's owners, Madden NFL 12 brings in some new things to the table. The question is, will that be enough for gamers to get excited about this year's edit...[Read More]

Story first and foremost The story in the game revolves around Adam Jensen, a security manager for the Sarif corporation. His life changes after a horrible incident, which leaves him with augmented arms, legs and pretty much everything else he owns. Once recovered, he resumes his job and his quest to uncover a greater truth about the incident that changed him into mostly a machine. Deus Ex: Human ...[Read More]

Remember the days when you were a kid and you played a game with your friend or sibling that was completely mindless, but nonetheless fun? Welcome to Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension.

Bleach is a popular anime series that has a large, maybe not DragonBall large, but still very large, following in the West. I've dabbled with some Bleach games in the past on previous systems, but I've yet to dive into the anime/manga to really figure who's who and what the heck is going on. Playing Bleach: Soul Resurreccion proved fairly enjoyable despite not being welcoming to series newcomers....[Read More]

If Dragon Age II: Legacy is a direct response to the many so-called crimes of Dragon Age II proper, it comes off as a bit coy. In a single swoop, Legacy attempts to address the cringe-worthy reused maps, the oft-putting enemy spawning, and weirdly unbalanced difficulty curve. But Bioware's new disposition is hardly clairvoyant. Legacy occasionally feels fresh, but mostly limps around with vain at...[Read More]

Morality in videogames, one of the more popular trends of the last five or so years, has always been presented in relatively binary terms. Pick good or pick bad. Help people or hurt people. InFamous and Mass Effect have walked fairly clear lines between good and evil. Fallout 3 chose a similar course with more grey matter in between, but often revolved around a personal decision to do good or be b...[Read More]

Caught between Baseball on Atari (for mechanics) and World Series Baseball from Sega, Baseball Stars brings the simplicity and the goods in one nice baseball package. Released last week for PSN in the NEOGEO Station package, there's a lot to enjoy in this classic.

Oh, now I remember why I grew up a nervous child.  Vanguard, while certainly simplistic in nature is absolutely insane on the brain! Masked as a 'easy' shooter, the game throws you in an Atari 5200-like environment where you must fly through mazes, fight through tons and tons of ships, and avoid crashing into the ever changing levels surrounding your single shooter ship.

Amongst the handful of NEOGEO classics that SNK released on the PSN last week was King of Fighters '95. It joins the NEOGEO Station along with Baseball Stars 2. The NEOGEO Station is a cool interface that basically acts as a wrapper around the game itself. The Pause Menu encompasses the game, so that you can do neat things like Save Replays and Reset the game if you would like. Other than what fee...[Read More]

SNK Playmore released several retro games from their library last week. One of those was Ikari Warriors, available as a Mini for the PSP and PS3. Priced at $2.99, you can hardly go wrong when it comes to an old school shooter.

Techland and Ubisoft are back with the third installment of the Call of Juarez series. Call of Juarez: The Cartel (CoJ:TC), marks some major changes for the series, simultaneously adding interesting new gameplay ideas but also executing them in very poor fashion. Ultimately, the result is a mess of a game that could have benefited from several more months of development. Still, The Cartel is not a...[Read More]