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... 

My first entry into the “Tactical Shooting Game” genre began on a home-built Windows 95 machine running on 8mb of memory and a super-fast Pentium 2 Slot 1 233 MHz chip. I picked up a copy of a game a few friends of mine were playing at a local game store called “Media Play,” which went out of business a handful of years ago. The game was none other than Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. A game... 

I’m starting to think Valve is falling into the horrible area of named game developers such as Blizzard and Epic, who have a difficult time making bad games. You’ll have to forgive me, once you start playing Portal 2, you are instantly reminded of the sarcasm the GLaDOS computer AI brings to the game to make you feel like the computer is playing a bad joke on you. Maybe she is? I’m... 

It’s important to note up front that The Sims Medieval is a stand-alone game. This is not a new expansion for The Sims 3 designed to teleport your favorite family members back to the middle ages. Instead The Sims Medieval is its own beast: related to the previous Sims games in name, but actually a step backwards from the current installment (The Sims 3) as far as actual game play is involved. Much... 

My mother was a huge Detroit hockey fan, often screaming her deep-southern obscenities at a win-less Jacques Demers as if he could hear her rants through the television screen. She also did this for Wrestling (or as she called it: wrastlin’) as my sister and I would sit back and laugh at her antics; she honestly believing how she reacted could change the outcome of the match. Since her passing... 

When people first hear the name “Crysis” involved with gaming, one of two impressions first pop into their mind: “level of detail,” and “high hardware requirements.” Crysis 2 expands upon these two facts by bringing us an amazing first person shooter (FPS) surrounded by highly detailed environmental effects and the ability to weave an invigorating and enveloping... 

I hate to start an article off on a negative step, but the poor Warhammer universe has been neglected since… well, since you had to paint the characters to play with them. Face it: The best part about Warhammer Online was the graphical loading screens displayed during installation; the game itself faced down-wind from a methane factory in July. The 40,000 series of Real Turn Strategy (RTS) games... 

Some things in life are remembered long after we leave them: good friends and family members after they move away, a great movie, even a delicious meal. Games, on the other hand, have to be spectacularly remarkable to leave a long-lasting impression. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with the game itself, either, it might have something to do with who you were playing the game with at the time....