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 [...]

Ask any fan of the Silent Hill series during its PS1-to-PS2 phase what they liked most about the games, and they’ll likely come back with one of the following reasons: foregoing typical monster-in-the-closet jump scares in favor of endless tension and paranoia; a chilling atmosphere and setting built around the characters’ inner demons; a unique and expertly-crafted audio presentation filled [...]

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 [...]

Developer: 2K Sports Publisher: 2K Games ESRB Rating: Everyone Cool autumnal evenings, the sound of the rubber soles of sneakers squeaking across the hardwood, and the smooth sound of a ball going through the nylon. That’s right NBA fans; basketball has come back for another season. The return of the NBA season means the launch of this year’s basketball sim [...]

  It isn’t exactly certain when Japan started getting into the bizarre naming convention involving the word “rhythm”, but between this and Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, we can now chalk it up as a new gaming buzzword. With a title like Orgarhythm, it’s only natural that one would expect a new and bizarre innovation that continues the loose interpretation of the Rhythm genre. [...]

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 [...]