“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” – H.G. Wells These hallowed words by H.G. Wells exemplify just how barbaric and demeaning war can become, and Spec Ops: The Line showcases the aspects of making the hard choices…
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True Crime: Hong Kong almost didn't see the light of day. Developed by United Front Games, it was supposed to be Activision's foray into the current generation of open world action games, but it didn't turn out that way. Activision…
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Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade has been known to put out an occasional release that appeals to old-school gamers. It already did that by kicking things off with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, but with the recent release of Deadlight,…
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Fruit Ninja Kinect was a highlight for last year's casual gamers who took part in Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade and offered a decent big screen experience for fans of the mobile game. This year, Microsoft once again didn't forget…
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While it may seem that this modern day in gaming is filled with various first-person shooters and fighting games, every once in a while there is a game that really brings players back to the good old days of old-fashioned…
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When Tony Hawk's Pro Skater burst onto the gaming scene in 1999, it was met with universal acclaim. On top of that, it also helped the extreme sport of skateboarding reach a marketing zenith and Tony Hawk soon became a…
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Telltale rebounds from the disappointing Jurassic Park series with the first episode of its upcoming The Walking Dead story that’s set just after the outbreak begins. The end result is a much more polished game that is a better all-around…
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Want to know how to make some solid money? Trademark something, make a movie or two, create some toys out of it, then slap that trademark on a million items and you're set! Or, maybe it's not always that easy….
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Ah, trilogies. There’s something about a three game series that will almost always guarantee that the third game will throw out all the stops. Refinements are at all time highs; what doesn’t work has been figured out. And it allows…
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Namco's Soul franchise has developed quite a history for itself since its 1996 debut with SoulEdge. It has been an underrated PlayStation title (Soul Blade), a smash hit on the Dreamcast launch (SoulCalibur), a highly-divisive multiplatform release (SoulCalibur II), and…
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As long-running and robust as the Final Fantasy series has become, it certainly is fair that Square-Enix has explicitly come to consider each installment as a franchise unto itself. This way of thinking has already been put into practice numerous…
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The King of Fighters franchise arrived in the fighting genre not long after Street Fighter II started a full-scale movement. Since then, it has represented some of the best of SNK's fighting offerings, but long held a reputation for being…
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