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 [...]

Shark or Die (Android)

As you might imagine, you are the titular shark in Shark or Die – and you’re on a single-minded mission: eat people. But though you have a simple goal, things are never that easy for a ravenous killer of the deep. You must make sure you don’t cause too many waves by quickly jetting between meals, [...]

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (iPad)

Grand Theft Auto, one of the biggest franchises in videogames, now rides shotgun on iPad. A port of the PlayStation Portable edition of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (which was in turn a port of a Nintendo DS game), the iPad version is a phenomenal play. You are Huang Lee, the spoiled son of a Triad [...]

Super Mega Worm (iPhone)

There are two types of WTF games. The first is a wonderfully weird game that ultimately reveals itself to be pointless and shallow because the developer expended all of its energy on getting the weird part right. (I could name a few here that would send the fanboys into lower orbit.) The second is a [...]

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 [...]

Ace Combat: Joint Assault (PSP)

There is a stretch of time during which every adolescent male is obsessed with posters. I have vivid memories of being dropped off at the mall with my friends, where we would scour the two or three stores with the best selections. We argued endlessly about which comic book characters, rock stars and supermodels were [...]

Free Valkyria Chronicles II Content and DLC Plans (PSP)

If you’re like a lot of us in the IGN office, your commutes to work and free time in general are dominated by Valkyria Chronicles IIgameplay sessions, and even if the massive single-player/co-op campaign wasn’t enough to already keep you playing for months to come, SEGA’s sweetening the pot by giving you free content this week [...]

Resident Evil 5 & PlayStation Move: Does it Work?

PlayStation Move hits store shelves on September 19th, and Sony has announced an eclectic collection of internally produced launch titles to go along with it. But non-Sony developers are working on Move experiences, too, and they’ll begin trickling in soon after launch. One of the higher profile Move applications is an upcoming patch for Resident Evil 5: [...]

Mega Man Universe Has Customizable Mega Men

There’s going to be a whole lot more to Mega Man Universe than just tough-as-nails side scrolling action. Capcom revealed today that it is giving the game a huge customization component.You’ll be able to create custom Mega Man characters, combining parts as you like. In addition to changing the look of your Mega Man, the parts will affect how [...]

Kill Bill’s Chiaki Kuriyama to Feature in New PS3 Yakuza Game

Kill Bill’s Chiaki Kuriyama last made headlines in the gaming world as she starred in commercials promoting the Japanese Xbox 360 version of Resident Evil 5. (We’re not making this up!)Her next game-related gig is just a bit more substantial. Sega unveiled the cast of its new PlayStation 3 Yakuza game today, and Chiaki is [...]