Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a Western fantasy RPG from now-defunct developer 38 Studios, is an ambitious game with a fantastic setting, action-packed combat, and tons of content. It doesn’t seek to reinvent any of the genre’s tropes, but what it does do, it does extremely well. The amount of quests rivals an Elder Scrolls title and you’ll want to spend [...]

Spec Ops: The Line is a mixture of confounding morals and ethics. The game’s overall concept is to convince you that killing is bad.  However, in the process of teaching you this idea, you kill hundreds of enemies and have a blast doing it.  This causes the game to have a confusing end result in a gamer’s mind.  It’s hard [...]

Every once in a while, a game comes along that makes us forget we’re a Journey-loving pacifist; a game that makes us so giddy at the sight of violence that we revert back to our 10-year-old self (the age we were when the original GTA was released). Hopefully, that 10-year-old will not be writing this review, but if we end [...]

The Great Giana Sisters was a platformer very much in the vein of Super Mario Bros. that is mostly famous for being a lot like Super Mario Bros., so much that Nintendo politely asked them to take it off the market. But as everyone knows, pulling a game from the stores only makes it that much more desirable, so a cult appreciation [...]

Anyone who grew up with a SNES or a Playstation in the house will probably remember one of the dozens of classic JRPGs produced for both systems. It’s a shame that the genre is just so time-consuming, making it difficult for the modern busy gamer to put in forty or fifty hours of grinding in exchange for forty-five minutes of [...]

A successful first-person shooter must cover three things at the very least. First, solid gameplay basics to give the game a strong core. Second, some originality to set it apart from the other first-person shooters out there, since comparisons will obviously be made.  Third, a fun multiplayer that will keep a gamer hooked for days on end.  Medal of Honor: [...]

  Anomaly: Warzone Earth begins with an opening montage that would be right at home in a Call of Duty game: explosions in Baghdad, wide shots of military vehicles, a solemnly voiced narration, and middle eastern-themed instrumentals. All of the tension and foreboding of this intro is immediately cut off the moment our main character comes into view, wearing an [...]

Back in the 80s, Carrier Command became a cult classic, and although it wasn’t a huge commercial success, it captured the imagination of its fan base  Now, in 2012, Bohemia Interactive have decided to try and catch lightning in a bottle again with a reimagining of the original. But while Bohemia Interactive have kept the RTS feel, much has changed since the 1988 [...]

The product of indie developer Benjamin Rivers, Home is a horror game that will keep you thinking about it long after it’s over. The kicker here is that there is no explicated storyline in the game–it’s up to the player to decide what happened based on clues in the environment and the protagonist’s dialogue. While some may argue that this approach [...]

What is it? Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty is the first batch of story-based DLC for Borderlands 2. The Basics This new DLC adds three achievements/trophies, seven new regions, a collection of hilarious new characters (like the dreadfully lonely Shade), more loot to snatch, new enemies to kill, a brand new wheelless vehicle (the sand skiff), and a few challenges for [...]