Activision lives their life a quarter mile at a time. Instead of consistently trying to wow us with impressive new IPs that will be around for the long haul, the majority of their slate are shovelware tie-ins that will be forgotten by the time the property hits Blu-ray. In the last year alone, the studio [...]

I’m old. Not to the point where I need devices to assist my daily functions old; but I am old to the point where I listen to music that people born in the ’90s can’t seem to easily identify. This means that I played a lot of video games that would fall under similar circumstances. [...]

When Resident Evil: Revelations came out last year, it was overshadowed by the impending release of console big brother, Resident Evil 6. While Resident Evil 6 ended up being criticized for a multitude of issues and is still routinely ravaged today, Revelations was praised as a refreshing return to form for a franchise that had [...]

After a lot of drama due to THQ’s turmoil, Metro: Last Light has finally been released. In a way, its timing is perfect since so many have been able to enjoy the original game due to its super-cheap Humble Bundle offering, allowing anticipation to build for many in a fairly organic way. Last Light follows [...]

Mars: War Logs is a highly ambitious indie RPG game by Spiders Studios that seeks to emulate the experience of AAA titles like Fallout and Mass Effect on a small budget, yet its attempt to reach for the stars results in a somewhat mixed experience. Creating a game that plays almost as a combination of [...]

In Capcom’s recent history, there hasn’t been anything as massive and more dedicated to their fans as Dragon’s Dogma. Last year’s game featured a vast world to explore and incredibly diverse hardcore gameplay mechanics that put all action-RPGs to shame. The Japanese company is looking to expand on the fiction with Dark Arisen: a brand new island [...]

I want to have been in the Ubisoft board room when Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was pitched. I can see it now…the game’s director standing at the end of an immaculate glass table, with excitement in his eyes. His smile stretching almost as high as his glasses as he struggles to not just run [...]

Star Trek is a brand known worldwide that’s even helped influence some of the real life devices we have today. It was a futuristic vision that many hoped the human race would get to in a couple hundred years from now. Digital Extremes and Namco Bandai are looking to convert what we love about the [...]

Shooting things is fun, and shooting tons of things with other people is even more fun. There comes a point in even the most arcade-y shoot-fest where you start wondering why you’re doing this, aside from the pavlovian response of feeling good when an enemy explodes. God Mode sits squarely at this point, offering endless [...]

Another day, another zombie. While the vampire fad dying was inevitable, zombies being the thing to replace it was hard to predict. Now the zombie fad has turned into a bonafide trend, lasting long enough to spawn not one, but three Dead Island releases. Of course, one of the titles was the “Game of the [...]