The new release video game “Brütal Legend” is as much fun as it is a unique concept to game in. You are roadie Eddie Riggs, transported to an Ozzy Osborne version of Hell (complete with voice acting by Ozzie Osborne) to save the badass girl you love and get back out alive. Along the way you face the denizens of the underworld in a variety of gaming modes that include racing, hack & slash fighting, real-time strategy and more. Jack Black provides the voice for the hero and pulls no punches. He dove into the role as did his fellow (more)
Mar 112013
When buying a new PC today there is one benchmark question that is penultimate: "Can it run Crysis 3"? The most powerful, most exciting videogame in years hit store shelves this past week for the PC, XBox360 and PlayStation 3 is indeed "Crysis 3". You are codename "Prophet", a super soldier embedded in a body armor "nanosuit" designed to heighten your reflexes and cloak your movements to and through the enemy lines. That is when you are not shooting them up, of course. This gorgeous-looking first person shooter comes with a customizable array of weapons as you (more)
Just released for Xbox360, Playstation 3 and Windows PC is the purported "true sequel" videogame to the 1986 movie Aliens entitled "Aliens: Colonial Marines". With a long line of titles in this videogame franchise, many of them disappointments, "Colonial Marines" has a tall order to fill given the popularity of the "Aliens" movie series. Unfortunately it does not live up to the hype. Despite having a price point of $60 dollars (for the consoles, $50 dollars for the PC version) the videogame falls short in some key aspects of game play. During the campaign portion of the game (more)
Here are, in my opinion, are the five can't-miss videogame titles of the last 5 years that would make great Christmas gifts today. The list is in no particular order and is derived from Windows PC gameplay. All of these titles are available online for a fraction of their original purchase price. A great way to treat someone this Christmas and for pennies on the dollar! "The Sims 3" (2009) One of the hottest selling video game titles ever turns your gaming platform into a true virtual world. With all of the expansion packs available a character doesn't just have (more)
May 222012
Film reviewer and co-founder, Nick Johnson, flipped this to me yesterday.
“For a moment, there was nothing, then he started showing me things…” series protagonist (whom you play as in both games) Cole McGrath says in reference to the first game’s antagonist, Kessler. That’s much of how you can describe Cole’s growth in powers in both games. The first game was set in Empire City, a take on modern day New York City, where Cole learns he was purposefully used as a courier for a Ray Sphere – a device that when released destroyed all around it, while killing everyone but the genetically-superior humans known as conduits – superhumans. In the (more)
Now that the PlayStation Network (PSN) and PlayStation Store are back up, Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) has introduced a Welcome Back program. Well, they introduced it on June 3, but now it’s working properly. As part of the Welcome Back program, SCEA is offering a choice of two of five select PlayStation 3 games, and a choice of two of four select PlayStation Portable games per active PSN account (assuming you had assigned both a PS3 and PSP to the account. These games were being provided free of charge, regardless of your status as a PlayStation Network Plus (more)
Jun 132011
It seems there are at least a half-dozen Triple-A First Person Shooters (FPS) coming out per year. The usual suspects are ever-truer-to-life WWII and post-WWII military games that can nearly be described as combat simulations. This market is saturated, and has been for quite some time, with less new IPs being created, and existing IPs being regurgitated on a yearly basis. This is a prohibitive market to enter; Activision’s November 2011 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is projected by industry analysts to see a $200M marketing/advertising budget, while EA’s similarly-timed release of Battlefield 3 is estimated to (more)
May 312011
When it comes to fighting games, there are a limited number of titles that stand out, and even the hardcore (who can be found at http://www.shoryuken.com) that play every single game classified in this genre, would agree: Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are the best among them. Both of these franchises, spanning many releases, character licenses, and spin-offs, were under question as recently as mid-2009. At that point in time Street Fighter rebooted its franchise with the release of Street Fighter IV, to great popular and critical acclaim; but we’re not here to talk about Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat was (more)
We’re operating on Tokyo Time now, folks (It’s 4am CT and this just finished up in Japan, as far as I can tell). I’ve kept quiet for a few days, as much information has been rehashed for a while. Here are my bullet-points of what’s happened with PSN, a link to the first credible source I could find on the new information, and an opinion on the situation as it stands. · Sony provides services that require your personal information, specifically PlayStation Network (PSN), and Qriocity. · Information provided in order to access these services was compromised as (more)
