One of the more enjoyable genres of my youth was the good ol’ fashioned side-scrolling beat-em-up. They were repetitive, it was always hundreds of clones of the same five enemies…
Video Game Review
Motocross Madness
Like last year’s Xbox Live Arcade racer Joy Ride Turbo, Motocross Madness is a download-sized racing game built around your Xbox Live Avatar that offers a somewhat limited racing experience…
Posted 32 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons
This is not the Double Dragon II I remember. If you want to put as much effort into reading this review as was put into the making of this game,…
Posted 33 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
BattleBlock Theater
Our review of BattleBlock Theatre from The Behemoth, makers of Castle Crashers. It’s fun, it’s silly, and my goodness does it like to do nasty things to cartoon characters.
Posted 35 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
Terraria
If you aren’t following the PC indie game scene, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Terraria is just a Minecraft rip off. Yes, it certainly borrows mightily from the now-iconic…
Posted 41 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Bit.Trip Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Runner 2, or more properly titled Bit.Trip Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is the latest in the weirdly compelling genre of endless running games. From Canabalt to Jetpack Joyride…
Posted 48 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Rise of the Guardians
I didn’t go into playing Rise of the Guardians expecting too much. After all, it was the dreaded movie tie-in game based upon the recently released film and those are…
Posted 141 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
Just Dance 4
Yes, Greg’s already reviewed Just Dance 4, so I don’t intend to reinvent the wheel here. However, with the Wii U version of the game hyping its use of the…
Posted 150 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
Ben 10: Omniverse
Ben 10 has won itself a legion of fans with its story of Ben Tennyson, a young boy who discovers a watch-like device called the Omnitrix that lets him transform…
Posted 151 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
Top Hand Rodeo Tour
The good news is, Top Hand Rodeo Tour is without a doubt the best rodeo game for Kinect. The bad news is, that’s not really high praise, seeing as it’s the…
Posted 157 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Nickelodeon Dance 2
If you know who Tyrone, Tico, and Twist are, odds are you have Nick Jr.-loving preschoolers in your house. And if you have said preschoolers and an Xbox with Kinect,…
Posted 178 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
NASCAR The Game: Inside Line
The real NASCAR season just ended, but the digital season is just starting with the release of NASCAR The Game: Inside Line, Activision and Eutechnyx’s second stock car racing title….
Posted 179 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
LEGO Lord of the Rings
LEGO Lord of the Rings is the latest entry into Traveller’s Tales ridiculously good series of games, bringing the story of Frodo, Aragorn, and Gollum to life in what is…
Posted 180 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Kinect Nat Geo TV: America the Wild
To their credit, Microsoft are trying different ideas when it comes to titles for their Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360, the newest being in the form of a pair…
Posted 189 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Grown Up Review
Halo 4
Halo 4 is a great game. Let’s start there. 343 Industries has taken the torch from Bungie, tweaked the hugely successful formula slightly, and launched Master Chief and Cortana into…
Posted 192 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Skylanders Giants
Summary: Skylanders Giants is an action-adventure game that is a sequel to last year’s surprise hit Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure. Most of the previous game is retained with a few key…
Posted 195 days ago by Jeff Peeters
Video Game Review
Dance Central 3
Sometimes when you look at a video game, you can see where a developer had an idea to do something a little wacky, but they pulled up short. Maybe they…
Posted 198 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth
One of my favorite uses for Kinect last year was Ubisoft’s PowerUp Heroes which used the hands-free hardware to create a largely successful fighting game. But much as I enjoyed the game,…
Posted 201 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Kinect Sesame Street TV
Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV are the first wave of Microsoft’s newest Kinect experiment that’s being called 2-Way TV, or essentially, the long-unrealized dream of interactive…
Posted 213 days ago by Greg Picken
Video Game Review
Just Dance 4
Remember Guitar Hero? At its peak, it was a revolutionary game that mixed great music with a completely unique play experience. Then Activision ran the franchise into the ground with…
Posted 215 days ago by Greg Picken