Assassin’s Creed Android Review

Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles should look somewhat familiar to you. It was released in 2008 on the Nintendo DS and in 2009 for iPhone. And now Gameloft has ported the adventure to Android. If you were a fan of Ubisoft’s ambitious Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 production, you know the set-up. An assassin named Altair is scouring the [...]

Dragon Age: Origins Witch Hunt (PC)

Those hoping for some sort of satisfying closure on the Morrigan storyline in Dragon Age: Origins unfortunately won’t find it here. If you know what that sentence means and find it to be disappointing, then you’re the target audience for this downloadable content. If you have no idea who Morrigan is and why you should [...]

Mafia II: Jimmy’s Vendetta (PS3)

It’s been just two weeks since Mafia II stormed stores across the nation, but it’s already time for its first batch of multiplatform downloadable content. Mafia II: Jimmy’s Vendetta picks up the story of — you guessed it — Jimmy, a wise guy who used to be a go-to guy but was double crossed and [...]

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker (PC)

As a huge fan of the Mass Effect series, I have been somewhat disappointed with all of the downloadable content offerings. While the characters have been interesting and the stories well-told, it felt like what happened didn’t matter once it was all over. BioWare has changed that with its latest downloadable content – The Lair of the [...]

Black Ops Dedicated Servers Come With a Catch

Call of Duty: Black Ops for PC will ship with dedicated server support this November, but there’s a catch. Activision and Treyarch studios announced it has partnered with GameServers.com to offer exclusive dedicated server rentals when the game launches. “We are extremely excited about this unprecedented relationship with Activision to offer dedicated servers exclusively for Black [...]

Shogun II: Total War Campaign (PC)

The Total War franchise is known for its huge, beautiful battlefields, and our recent looks at Shogun II: Total War have shown that this game doesn’t buck this trend. What we hadn’t seen until now, though, was the other half of the experience – the just-as-important campaign mode. So much of being a leader in feudal Japan [...]

Mirros’s Edge Iphone

As much as I enjoyed Mirror’s Edge on my Xbox 360, after feeling the breeze at my back with the iPad and now iPhone editions, I’m certain this game was made to be played in 2D. By stripping away any of the fussiness of lining up perfect jumps along three axes, Mirror’s Edge loses almost all [...]

R.U.S.E (Xbox 360)

Zoom all the way out from one of Ruse’s World War II battlefields and you’ll see the edge of the strategy table in the commanding Allied general’s war room. Desk officers work silently in the background; troops are colourful blue and red counters inching across a map of Europe, their movements delineated in bright, wide [...]

H.A.W.X. 2 (Xbox 360)

I pull back on the stick and slam my throttle forward, gaining as much altitude and distance as I can, but it’s not working. There are six MiGs on my ass, all with active locks and an endless supply of missiles that seem just a little more accurate than mine, and none appear to be [...]

Puzzle Agent iPhone

The differences between homage, inspired by, and outright copycat narrow as you move down the sliding scale. Telltale Games‘ new Puzzle Agent is obviously born out of a collective admiration for Professor Layton’s awesome DS adventures. And though the desire to emulate a great game is perfectly understandable, Puzzle Agent adheres so close to the Layton formula [...]