The original Hot Shots Tennis for the PS2 was the victim of being released after Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee for the PSP, which completely raised the bar that a new title couldn’t live up to on its first try. The follow-up to that original tennis title is Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, the [...]

Welcome the latest in the Smashpad “On Point” Podcast series about the E3 2010 conference. In the E3 episode we cover all of the latest technologies (Kinect, PS3 in 3D, Sony Playstation Move, and Nintendo 3DS), Gran Turismo 5, Twisted Metal, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Kane & Lynch 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Mafia II, Halo Reach, [...]

One liner: The beefed up Wii-like wand feels less compelling than when it was first announced, especially in the wake of the 360 Kinect. Yes, we got to play all of the big technology innovations at this year’s E3 (Xbox 360 Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, and PS3 in 3D), and the most disappointing was (sadly) Sony [...]

One liner: Sonic’s latest attempt at the third dimension has just enough of a dash of the 2D to impress all. We got our hands on Sonic Colors for a few brief moments at E3 2010 last week. With demo kiosks just a few feet away from Sonic Adventure 4 and Sonic Riders for Xbox [...]

One liner: PS3 in 3D is definitely very cool, but it doesn’t exactly make for a great gaming experience. There was a lot going on at E3 2010 last week, but Sony’s 3D push was very apparent. They had an entire section of their booth devoted to 3D, and some big titles like Gran Turismo [...]

Mortal Kombat has long been a fighting genre laughingstock among the more serious competitive players, and with good reason – with the exception of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, the entire series has been horrendously bug-ridden and imbalanced. At the same time, it has brought forth a style and storyline that has gathered an absolutely massive [...]

Realtime Worlds’ 2007 Xbox 360 game Crackdown was met with decent reviews by critics, but the general public seems to have enjoyed it significantly more than the press did. It developed a following on Xbox Live and spawned the new affliction “Orbophilia” where people were spending hours and hours on end hunting down every last [...]

As the conferences are being shaken up to change the future of the NCAA, the virtual landscape remains steady as NCAA Football 11 nears its release. The team at Tiburon is putting in a lot of effort this year to fix a lot of the things that fans have been wanting for years, which should [...]

One liner: A much more time-effective and inviting Madden. With basketball wrapping up, that leaves a little more time to focus on good old American football. And the Madden series is seemingly becoming more and more of an American tradition. But some traditions have to adapt to the times. Gameflow is the latest feature that [...]

One liner: Easily has some of the coolest weaponry at E3 Eff this building. That’s what you want to say as your character tears away at the infrastructure of some 100-feet building in any of the most recent installments of Red Faction. Eff this building and this monster. That’s what you say after using the [...]