There are a decent amount of hardcore gamers who believe Final Fantasy XIII was the weakest game SquareEnix made in the lifetime of all Final Fantasy.  I don’t follow this logic since I think SquareEnix took a different route in telling and outlining a story in the Final Fantasy realm while creating an enjoyable, albeit linear, game experience.  I will agree Final Fantasy XIII is more movie-oriented... 

Commander Shephard’s back, and this time it’s up to you to save not only the Earth, but the entire galaxy. I played Mass Effect 1 and 2 on the PS3, so downloading and playing the demo on the 360 meant I didn’t get to import my character, which I believe is one of the many cool and unique features found in the Mass Effect framework.  The demo gives the player a chance to play two different... 

I stated in my review of the Nintendo 3DS how much I dislike reviewing hardware since people are biased from the manufactures’ standpoint right off the bat.  This review is similar to the 3DS piece since it’s a new foundation for all mobile Vita nonsense to come out of Sony for the next 5-10 years.  Comparing the PSP to the Vita is similar to comparing a Dodge Viper SRT to a Pinto Station wagon:... 

The time has come to look at the bigger picture in Azeroth and see what else is going on outside of Darnassus and Orgrimmar.  World of Warcraft has obliterated subscriber and subscription records for any online game to date by creating a solid world with oodles of things to do – even if you aren’t a gamer – and holding the attention of those signing into the servers more than any other... 

What happens when you take Baseball great Curl Shilling, award-winning fantasy and sci-fi author R.A. Salvatore and brilliant comic-book author, and artist Todd McFarlane along with a design studio purchased from THQ called “Big Huge Games” (Creators of the Rise of Nations trilogy of games as well as Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties) to create Mr. Shilling’s wet dream come... 

Sometimes I hate friends. Being a nerd means participating in tedious conversations with friends who tend to delve into the mundane details of not only how things work, also why and what for, and why you need to know.  A common nerd problem I run into most of the time with friends is the fact I could care less about a Linux-based operating system running on a computer.  Some say I should send back... 

Dual-wielding is for n00bs.  The Darkness 2 takes the story-arc created with the first Darkness game and puts it on a linear shooter through a short psychosomatic made-for-television movie, of sorts.  The biggest change, if you enjoyed the first Darkness, is the change in how the game itself plays.  Darkness 2 is more of a Battlefield or Call of Duty-style game where the first Darkness had more... 

I’ll tell you a quick story to give you a rudimentary history of my brutal and inhumane struggles with the Rainbow Six franchise:  In 1998, I bought a video game titled “Rainbow Six” from Media Play who is no longer in business.  The game came on four CD’s and took over a half an hour to install on my cheap-ass Packard Hell (in part…it was modified to the teeth) desktop computer.  Rainbow... 

I love games based on historical facts such as the Total War series of games, and I also enjoy the games where the facts blur together into the proverbial fire for the more fantastical element of storytelling.  King Arthur II is more of the latter.  The quests and trials of King Arthur the human have been well documented many times in different cultures, however this version is more along the lines... 

Every time I hear someone say “Hey, you play Hoard yet?”  I think of Warcraft.  Old habits die hard, I’m afraid. Hoard, as opposed to “the Horde,” is a simplistic and minimalistic game where you play a dragon breathing fire on sections of a village to steal their gold and battle other dragons doing the same.  The more gold you collect before the time runs out, the better you rate against...