As one of the premier developers of shooters for the past two decades, it’s no surprise that Treasure has taken advantage of the opportunity that Xbox Live Arcade presents to offer their games to a much wider audience than ever before. Unlike Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun, Treasure has worked on sequels to Dreamcast cult hit [...]

Across the world, everyone is mourning the tragedy in Japan. Maybe you’d like to help too, but you’re broke and not exactly in a position to lend a hand to the rescue efforts. Well, Mastiff Games, a small niche-market publisher, wants to help you help Japan. For every 100 people that “Like” them on Facebook between [...]

Dead Space proved to be one of the most shocking titles of 2008…in more ways than one.  Not only did EA and Visceral successfully create a new title in the vaunted horror genre, but they scared us half to death in doing so as well.  While the first game focused solely on the campaign and [...]

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is a marvel of a game and perhaps one of the best entries in the already long-running series.  As a standalone title,  Birth By Sleep excels in giving players a glance at events leading up to the original Kingdom Hearts, as well as shed some light on various events that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

I have no luck traveling. While traveling back to New York from visiting the family in Denver for Christmas, I found myself stranded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, unable to catch my connecting flight. I shouldn’t have been surprised when that same bad luck found me while traveling to E3 this year. Since you might like to [...]

So as many of you have may have noticed, there’s been a lot of odd things happening here since about E3 time. To make it short and sweet, Gamer 2.0 used to be owned by a parent corporation known as WiredLabs. In January 2007, our relationship with WiredLabs ended, but due to a lack of [...]