While 2009 saw five Guitar Hero games released, two within three months of each other, the need for new titles in 2010 has some gamers feeling worn out.  But with new instruments (keyboard, advanced drum kit) and a new take on the Guitar Hero franchise, both Activision and Harmonix are looking to make 2010 the [...]

When you think of the game BioShock, naturally many think of that underwater utopian society that tragically fell to the pressures of genetic splicing and the mind of Andrew Ryan.  While the sequel focused its sights on new characters and events, Bioshock still took place in the fallen city of Rapture, a beautifully created city [...]

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment wasted no time today in revealing the latest sequel to 2009’s critically acclaimed action-adventure title, Batman: Arkham Asylum.  Rocksteady’s title saw Batman return to dominant form, and alongside polished visuals, superb voice acting, and a steady dose of investigating and brutal pummeling, Arkham Asylum proved to be one [...]

Despite Comic Con being somewhat limited on game preview selection, we were able to get through a demo of the upcoming Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions on the showroom floor. Spidey games typically are hit or miss types of games: the movie tie-ins have been misses, but independent titles have garnered a bit more success. But the [...]

In the Gears of War series, The Locust have always seemed like such a bully. Sure, they’re trying to completely eviscerate any traces of human life, and they pop up from the ground and swallow cities, but have we really taken the time to get to know what they are really like? No, and because [...]

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 [...]

What do you get when you mix the developers behind Painkiller with the masterminds working on the conclusion to the Gears of War franchise?  An over-the-top shooter that rewards players for “killing with style.”  If you are the type of gamer who finds it generally boring to hop into every shooting game and rinse and [...]