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 [...]

As our 2011 backlog is already starting to build up, everybody here at SmashPad has taken the opportunity to look back upon the games we enjoyed the most from 2010 for our annual The Year in Screenshots feature. Rather than go through the hassle of dwindling these games down to name a Game of the [...]

Just a friendly post to let all of our readers out there know that we have not disappeared and are just recuperating from a long stretch of holiday gaming. The holidays brought with it fun, tons of gaming, and sadly not enough free time.  The majority of us have real life jobs with real life [...]

The NBA season is underway, and whether you’re a fan of the world champion Los Angeles Lakers or you’re a loyal Warriors fan wondering when it’ll finally be time to believe again.  That time has become because NBA Jam is back. Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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

The Metroid series has always been about discovery.  Even with the Prime trilogy making its debut on the GameCube in 2002, Samus Aran has always roamed different planets alone in an attempt to solve historic mysteries.  Now Nintendo has once again taken the series in a different direction: Back to its roots and tributing Prime’s [...]

Madden and the Wii; it’s a match made in heaven. The Wii is the best-selling console in the United States, and Madden has always been the best selling sports game for quite a few years now.  Year after year, EA Sports has done what they can to make the Wii version of the game stand out, [...]

Sin & Punishment was the best Nintendo 64 game you’ve never played.  This statement should probably ring true, especially since the game never made in stateside before its release on the Wii’s Virtual Console a couple years back. The game was a 3D on-rails shooter in the vein of Star Fox 64 that featured nothing [...]

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 [...]