Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ultimate Edition Review

It’s only been a couple of months and 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the best ever for gamers. If your wallet hasn’t already been emptied, Electronic Arts and development studio DICE have tossed yet another videogame on the pile that can’t be missed. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ups the intensity and visual [...]

Halo: Reach Limited Edition

Limited Edition Most limited or special editions are filled with a few trinkets of questionable worth. This, however, is actually a pretty cool set of goodies, all for just an extra $10. Inside the larger box, you’ll find a black DVD case that will make Halo: Reach stand out in your collection. That’s a nice [...]

Halo: Reach Legendary Edition

Legendary Edition The Legendary Edition contains everything the less expensive Limited Edition comes with, plus a lot more to justify the $150 price tag. It’s all housed inside a special case made to look like an ONI security container. This is a pretty substantial set of bonus content, so let’s get right to it. Like [...]

Halo: Reach Review

Halo means so much to so many people. This is not extraordinary in the culture of videogames. What’s exceptional is how many different things it means to those players. For me Halo has always been a social experience, with lifelong friendships forged over a shared love of the game. Some hop online to randomly test [...]

Time Crisis 2nd Strike (iPhone)

Time Crisis 2nd Strike is Namco’s latest iPhone adaptation of its popular light gun series – and things are still a little screwy. As an ace super agent hot on the trail of a gang of terrorists, you must tap-tap-tap your way out of dangerous situations against waves of gunmen. But there is a little [...]

TGS: Radiant Silvergun HD Coming to XBLA

Radiant Silvergun is generally considered to be one of the best 2D shooters ever made. Released in arcades and on the SEGA Saturn in 1998, it gave players control of seven weapons that are activated by different button combinations. Today during Microsoft’s press conference at the Tokyo Game Show it was announced that a high-definition [...]

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 [...]

Raising Hell with Razing Storm (PS 3)

I completely missed the last Time Crisis game on the PlayStation 3, mostly due to my aversion for extra peripherals (I’m drowning in guitars, weight scales, guns, and microphones). But hey, I’m already onboard for this PlayStation Move thing, so let’s check out one of my favorite rail shooters of all time. Namco’s newest entry [...]

Front Mission: Enter the Giant Robots (Xbox 360)

I will never swear off giant robots. No matter how many games I play, no matter how much anime I watch, I will always take interest in the exploits of massive war machines wreaking havoc in potentially post-apocalyptic worlds. That is until I get totally sick of giant robots… But I’m not sick of them [...]

Gearbox Now Owns Duke Nukem

Following Friday’s big reveal that Gearbox Software is now finishing Duke Nukem Forever, the studio announced today it has purchased the full property rights of the Duke Nukem brand from its previous owner 3D Realms. The deal includes Duke Nukem Forever and “all future projects.” “The Gearbox Software team and I are ecstatic that we have grown to [...]