Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner (Wii)

If you plucked Guybrush Threepwood off of Monkey Island and plopped him down in the Old West instead, you’d end up with Fenimore Fillmore – a half-heroic, half-helpless cowboy who somehow manages to save the day, even while tripping over his own boots. He’s a character who’s starred in a handful of different point-and-click adventure games [...]

Dolphin SVN r6199

Dolphin SVN r6199 is released.Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a great Gamecube(NGC) and Wii emulator.It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games. OpenCL is enabled in this build. Dolphin SVN changelog: r6199 Emulation accuracy improvements * Implemented HID4.SBE flag * Implemented but disabled MSR[IR] and MSR[DR] [...]

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 [...]

FIFA 11: Final Look

Previewing games can be a funny business. You’re either under the watchful gaze of the developers themselves as they unveil their progeny for the very first time or part of a scrum of people keeping one eye on the game at hand and the other scoping out to see if the lady with the tray [...]

Dolphin SVN r6193

Dolphin SVN r6193 is released.Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a great Gamecube(NGC) and Wii emulator.It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games. OpenCL is enabled in this build. Dolphin SVN changelog: r6193 Jit64/JitIL: Enabled block merging to improved the performance. This improves the fps 4-5 faster [...]

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (Xbox 360)

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is back. In fact, four Spider-Men are back for Shattered Dimensions, a game that celebrates the wallcrawler’s various incarnations. These four Spider-Men inhabit different worlds with different gameplay styles and unexpected variations on well-known villains. If you think you’ve seen it all with Spider-Man games, think again. (Go ahead, think. I’ll [...]

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 [...]

Batman: The Brave and the Bold (NDS)

The Brave and the Bold series on Cartoon network pits comic books most popular hero, Batman, with some of the lesser known DC characters. Rather than teaming with Wonder Woman or Superman, the Caped Crusader takes to the streets with Plastic Man, Blue Beetle, and Red Tornado. That premise carries into the DS game, which [...]

Top Spin 3 (Xbox 360)

Top Spin 3 was one of the best tennis simulations ever made. It delivered tough-to-learn control mechanics that did a good job of conveying the complexities and general difficulty of the sport. WithTop Spin 4, 2K Sports is peeling a few layers of difficulty off of the sim tennis game in hopes of bringing in a [...]