In formative years, we’re always told not to judge a book by its cover; to dig deeper in order to determine what someone, or something, is really about. Thankfully Nail’d isn’t a book, because you can tell exactly what to expect just by a glance and Techland certainly makes no bones about it. Nail’d is [...]

It was hard not to be excited for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Here we have my single favorite racing game developer, Criterion Games, lending their mettle to one of the more entertaining entries to have flown under the Need for Speed flag. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a better recipe for success prior [...]

Pac-Man Championship Edition was released over three years ago and judging by the snarky comments on Evil Avatar, a slew of people didn’t give it a second look. CE truly made Pac-Man a fresh, entertaining arcade title again by sticking to the familiar formula but throwing our hero into a psychedelic Geometry-Wars-inspired world complete with [...]

In the beginning, there were FreQuency and Amplitude. And they were good. Created by a small company in Boston, MA, these indie titles introduced me to a genre of entertainment largely ignored in North America: the rhythm game. It brought about my interest in electronic music and gave my then fledgling website (now dead and [...]

Red Dead Redemption is a clear frontrunner for Game of the Year lead primarily by its engaging and huge single player experience. So when Rockstar revealed the details of their big, single player focused expansion, my ears certainly perked up then an eyebrow was lifted. Zombies? Do we really need another zombie game and one [...]

Last year’s introduction of DJ Hero was a breath of fresh air for rhythm games. Not only did it introduce a new way to play, but it did so within a genre that was–up until that time–largely untouched. While Activision’s Guitar Hero is clearly creatively bankrupt, their platter spinning series has made serious improvements over [...]

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Dude’s on a ship locked away in some sort of pod-thing and a catastrophic event happens which frees him. He escapes, while the ship crashes and then has to fight bad guys. This nameless fellow also sees a pretty young girl while escaping the doomed vessel, but [...]

When I first read details and saw screens from Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (GH6) I was actually fairly intrigued. Here we had a game that appeared to know exactly who it was. Neversoft was channelling heavy metal album artwork, characters appeared to be crisp and redesigned, and they were focusing on something that most [...]

When I first picked up the controller with Kane and Lynch 2, I really had zero expectations. Not only had I never played the original due to mediocre reviews and the far reaching “Gerstmann-gate”, but I also wasn’t particularly familiar with the titular characters. Lemme tell you something, the first tutorial level didn’t really make [...]

The scrolling shooter. Back in the mid 80′s and early 90′s they were pretty hot, but now it’s all about FPS, RTS, and GPS. Like most of the gaming industry, I’ve long since moved away from games like Life Force, Einhänder, and Gradius to boom headshots but every now and again, I’ll revisit. That time [...]