This was the scene at RedOctane’s funeral for the Air Guitar at the European launch of Guitar Hero II. Irony has a nasty way of coming back at you, no? With the Guitar Hero series being nixed by Activision, it seemed like a good time to look back at the various titles in the franchise [...]

Are you ready to rock? Yes? Well then Rock Band 3 is on the shelf over there. If on the other hand you’re looking for some awesome beats, then stick around for DJ Hero 2. Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

Neversoft has been plugging away at the Guitar Hero franchise for several years now. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock marks their latest, and last game in the series. Is this a worthy entry for the franchise, or does it show signs of fatigue? Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

When the Sega Dreamcast launched on September 9th 1999 it did so with a handful of games. Some of them were excellent arcade translations like Soul Calibur and Hydro Thunder, and others were less than stellar, like TrickStyle. The one game everyone seems to remember is Sonic Adventure. Eleven years later Sonic Adventure is now [...]

What can you get for $2.50 these days? A pack of chips? A cup of coffee? How about a potentially limitless amount of replay value? Would you be willing to pay $2.50 to expand a game that already offers hundreds of hours of fun with even more content? That’s the question Zen Studios is asking [...]

When we first heard of a multiplayer-focused Castlevania game slated to come out as an XBLA game during this year’s Summer of Arcade, we were skeptical to see whether or not the tried and true action/adventure style could work as a multiplayer game. For the most part, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair works, though the game [...]

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 [...]

The long anticipated and oft-speculated Project Natal has finally been revealed to the world at this year’s E3. Microsoft aim to not only change the way games can be played, but also the way we interact with our consoles, communicate with our friends, and consume our media. Several games were shown at the media briefing, [...]

Split/Second is the latest game from Pure developer Black Rock Studios. Unlike their ATV game, Split/Second is all about completely over the top, Hollywood movie style car action. Imagine if you will huge, elaborate movie sets adapted into racetracks and you’re part of the way towards understanding Split/Second. Now add strategically placed explosives that the [...]

MotoGP 09/10 is Capcom’s second outing as the sole publisher of MotoGP games. This is also their first MotoGP game for the current generation of consoles. MotoGP might not be as popular in North America is it is in Europe and Asia, but it does have a small and devoted fan base. Capcom believes that [...]