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... 

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... 

I’m surprised Blizzard hasn’t taken Perfect World to court.  After playing Forsaken World, the similarities between World of Warcraft and Forsaken World are too numerous to list here in this review.  The biggest similarity is play-style with Forsaken Worldcasting spells and effects by using the common leveling system between classes to defeat mobs and bosses.But I’m getting ahead of... 

I have to apologize to my fans for not being online much as of late, see, I’ve been busy. I don’t mean with anything tangible, like work or taking care of the twins or anything along the lines a normal responsible human being. You see, I’m Batman. I have a job to do: Clean the city of Arkham from the bad-guy scum trying to take over the seedy night. It’s my duty to prevent this act from happening... 

Do you like guns, cars, women in torn shreds of clothing and fast paced war-zone action? Welcome to Wasteland Angel, where you play the character aptly named “The Wasteland Angel,” who travels from town to town to defend those poor war-torn refugees from the devastation of gangs and others who wish to torture them. Wasteland Angel is a nod to the old 1941-style shooters in a 3D landscape where... 

I’ll say it one last time: I’m tired of zombies. Can we please come up with a monster a bit more creative than an undead human who feasts on the brains of living humans? Better yet, think of it this way: how do chickens see us? Do they design video games where you need heavy artillery to prevent the humans from stealing their legs and wings? No. Neither do cows, or pigs, or whatever the meat... 

Any dystopic-future based game which starts in the land of Detroit is off to a great start in my book. I’ve lived here all my life and can already see the decay forming on the seams of the city. In 15 years Detroit may resemble the opening of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, however, I hope this never comes to fruition and instead installs the OCP/RoboCop style of future I wanted to see as a kid. Never... 

If you play video games on the PC or MAC platform, it is in your best interest to download Steam (store.steampowered.com) and sign up for a free account. I couldn’t be more serious: get off your ass and do this. Every computer I build for friends and family come pre-installed with: K-Lite Codec Pack Full, MalwareBytes, iTunes, and Steam. My logic goes something like this: even if you never use these... 

I could argue the Steam service itself is taking apart the Orange Box multi-pack and making each glorious section of gaming goodness free for a period of time on Steam Works, but it would be a foolish hypothesis since Valve will never make the addictive Half-Life 2: Episode 1 free . . . or will they? So far, Portal was released for free on Steam right before the announcement of Portal 2. I happened...