Tony Hawk is back and once again lending his name to a skateboarding video game. Gone are the feeble attempts at skateboarding in the living room with a defunct floor controller, and now we have will have a controller in hand again.  The team over at Activision has decided to do a complete turn-around and bring back what made the Tony [...]

  Back with a BANG Codemasters newest release in the DiRT series, DiRT Showdown, is coming on to our screens with a huge crash, bang, and wallop. It’s obvious from the start that this game is aimed at the not-so-serious racing gamer. It’s a racing/demolition game, which, in some ways, is a bit of a let down, but it has some [...]

Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft ESRB Rating: Mature No, your eyes do not deceive you: The Expendables 2 has a video game tie-in with the release of the film. Available for download, The Expendables 2 Video Game looks to deliver the over-the-top action the movie franchise is known for. Will The Expendables 2 Video Game shake the bad reputation of bad [...]

  Set on the wacky world of Pandora, Borderlands has a simple premise; arrive on Pandora, kill everything that gets in your way, and find the mysterious vault. It won’t be easy, though, because you’ll need to battle your way through hordes of bandits, psychotic midgets, overgrown insects, and a myriad of other hostile lifeforms. This is a shoot first, [...]

Games like Dyad are hard to describe accurately without simply seeing it for yourself, and even then, it’s still confusing at first glance.  It can be compared to a game like Rez, but even that comparison doesn’t do it justice.  Dyad is one of those games that if someone walked in on you playing it, they’d think you were in a trance, staring [...]

Developer: Zombie Studios Publisher: Konami ESRB Rating: Everyone Old-school gamers probably spent many dollars, one quarter at a time, trying to get an arcade frog across a busy street and treacherous river. Frogger Hyper Arcade Edition revives this concept while adding a few new features to the classic game. Can Frogger Hyper Arcade Edition find its way into the heart [...]

Imagine a game with the rapid, responsive combat of Devil May Cry, the bloody brutality of God of War, the intriguing intellect of Portal, and the exciting exploration of The Legend of Zelda. That would be pretty incredible, right? Somebody should make that game a reality, right? Well, Vigil Games certainly thought so, because they’ve attempted to do so with the creation [...]

First released way back in the 90′s, Magic: The Gathering is a rare bastion of stability in our mercurial times. Those were the years of games like Doom and Mortal Kombat II; in other words, the stuff of nostalgia and bargain bins–maybe, on occasion, antique stores. Yet somehow, Magic continues to get better and stronger despite the passage of time. That’s [...]

Bejeweled 3 by Popcap Games is exactly what people have come to expect from a Bejeweled game. Since 2001, Bejeweled has sold more than 75 million copies and has been downloaded more than 150 million times. Since everyone knows what the game is, Popcap has tried to change things around by adding more modes and different ways to play. The presentation [...]

Developer: Namco Bandai Publisher: Namco Bandai ESRB Rating: Everyone Chances are if you’ve ever picked up a video game in your life, you’re well aware of Pac-Man. Well, the gaming icon has returned with a new twist in Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. Will this game bring up the nostalgic feelings that made Pac-Man a household name, or should you save [...]