The word ‘retro’ is thrown around alot with the rise of indie gaming in the past few years. Sure many of them have lived up to this claim, but Retro City Rampage might possibly be my favorite example of a throwback to the good ol’ days I’ve seen yet. Set for release in May 2012, Retro City Rampage will premiere on XBLA, [...]

Sim City is back and it has been 8 years since “mayors in training” were able to run a virtual city.  The Sim City franchise is in desperate need of an update and refresh, and the team over at Maxis and Electronic Arts has released the games official trailer.  Take a look below. What the video did not show is the [...]

Set for release on PC via Steam on June 12th, with a Mac version to follow in July, Krater is an action top-down RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. Now I know you’re already thinking that you’ve played this before, trust me when I say Krater a completely new beast all together. Yes it shares similarities with other classic titles in the [...]

Getting ready to be released soon is the upcoming sequel to the 2009 smash hit Prototype by Radical Entertainment. For those that remember the original game, they will remember a visceral and bloody campaign uncovering the uncertainty and mystery surrounding Alex Mercer. Prototype 2 wants to up the ante and focus on what players enjoyed about the first game, powerful biological abilities and the means to wage war against your [...]

Robot Entertainment is bringing us more orcs to kill, and new traps to kill them with. The sequel to the popular indie-game Orcs Must Die! is coming soon to a PC near you. Orcs Must Die! brought us a new way of looking at the “Tower Defense” genre. With Orcs Must Die! the player is brought down to the ground [...]

Zombies are a constant topic of conversation among the staff of New Gamer Nation.  From posting reviews of zombie games to playing Call of Duty Black Ops we are fascinated by these creatures.  Not surprisingly, the staff here loves the AMC show The Walking Dead.  Perhaps the greatest show on television ever. Season 2 has just concluded and there is a [...]

Max Payne, the man who has been shot, stabbed, beaten, arrested, betrayed and poisoned is back. He leaves the familiar confines of New York City and moves on to a new, more tropical location: Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Max Payne 3, Max has left the United States behind. After the turmoil of the last two installments of the series, Max has a lot on his plate [...]

The team at Valve is at it again with a new release in their popular Counter-Strike series entitled Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Counter-Strike, the once free mod for Half-Life, has turned into one of the most popular online first person shooters today. With a mixture of the fast-action style of the Unreal Tournament series, and team-based, tactical-shooters of the Tom Clancy [...]

What is the point of launching a brand new product without some new killer content? Well, if you haven’t heard, Apple has just released the new iPad for the scores of iOS fanatics.  Apple has also indicated that they want to take over as the leading software developer for mobile gaming.  To help them accomplish this goal, both Apple and Namco [...]

Battlefield 3 has had one of the most successful game release to date, and one of the most successful series as well so it is no surprise that the developers at DICE are trying to keep the momentum going by giving their fans more action and intensity that this series has become so well known for. The developers at DICE [...]