I admit it. I am a fan of Harry Potter, and have been since the first book. I never dressed up and waited outside of bookstores at midnight waiting for the next installment, however I have picked up each book the day after they came out and sat at a pub (since a bar would just be wrong) and read the entire novel cover to cover while the waitresses would come by and refill my Black and Tan. With... 

Let me just say up front that our own Chris Tallant is crazy. He’s almost completely certifiable, but it may be the kind of crazy that is accompanied by genius. Over the weekend he sent me an e-mail with an idea: even though he had already reviewed Duke Nukem Forever, he wanted to create another review, only this time in song. Normally I would have told him to stop drinking and e-mail me again when... 

When did Blizzard North and their Diablo team start working for Square Enix? I promise that will be the last reference to Diablo after this paragraph I’m writing: After playing the game for roughly an hour, I went online to look for some of the European scribes, since Square Enix gave EU players Dungeon Siege III early rights because the developer doesn’t believe in the inherent system and path... 

Here’s the problem with Duke Nukem Forever, and it’s the same problem Star Wars faced when George Lucas released the Episode I-III movies: The original was made in a specific time, using specific technology, for a specific audience. Now that the original fan-base has grown up, graduated, started careers, had families and traded in the Pontiac Firebird for a down payment on a Toyota Prius, the... 

Summer blockbusters, my friends, are definitely upon us. Red Faction: Armageddon is no different from any big-bang shoot-em-up showing down at the drive in (yes, we still have one left in Michigan… somewhere) and the humid sticky, mosquito infested nights watching explosions and superheroes on a brick wall has now finally broken into the video game realm. Ooh, random thought: Halo Deathmatch... 

InFamous 2 is what is known as “Sandbox game,” which is industry speak for “a game with no direct path to the end result within the storyline. Many sandbox games have small side missions similar to games such as Grand Theft Auto 4 and Assassin’s Creed 2. In layman’s terms, you could easily play the game for hours without ever touching on the main storyline or even having any affect at all... 

I had some high-hopes (cue the Sinatra song) for this game due to the trailers at E3 since I’m a fan of cooperative game-play titles similar to Diablo and Gears of War. One is quickly reminded this is a Bethesda game. I’ll explain: Just about every Bethesda game is faulty upon first release. Oblivion, Brink, and Fallout 3 all had issues with the game “polish” upon first release and needed... 

It’s interesting to see Rockstar Games attempt to diversify and move away from their hard-earned image. After years of letting players be bad guys through organized crime, turf wars, and Scarface-like drama, the game developer changed gears in the past few years. First we got Red Dead Redemption which traded in fast cars and loose women for horses and a family man as a protagonist. Now, with L.A.... 

I received a copy of Dirt 3 for the Playstation 3 on Thursday of last week. Friday was a difficult and trying day at the office with my co-worker leaving for greener pastures in a taller building, so that evening I decided to imbibe a little while playing. Apparently the “Don’t Drink and Drive” motto should include rally racing games as well. Needless to say, the liquor went down quicker than... 

Many ape-descended life-forms here in America who entitle themselves with the moniker of “Gamer” have minimal knowledge of a small development company by the name of CD Projekt based in Poland. CD Projekt originated in 1994 as a gaming company who translated games such as Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale to their native language and eventually became one of the biggest game and educational software...