With major platforming releases being rare these days, it’s nice to see companies like Insomniac Games and Nintendo continue with their own series to give fans of the genre something to look forward to from time to time. Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time completes the Future story arc that they started two years ago along with adding some new things to help change up the usual pace that Ratchet & Clank games tend to ..read more

Got hooked up with a copy of Borderlands yesterday for the PC. Thought I’d take a few minutes to write up a little on my first impressions of it, because everyone seems to have been getting real hype over it.

For anyone who isn’t aware, the whole concept of Borderlands is that it’s a First Person Shooter (optionally multiplayer) with RPG-style drops and levelling system. So you’re running around the wastes, shooting up enemies who are dropping guns, grenades and weapon ..read more

Some teenagers use a school trip to see the sights or buy cool souvenirs, but a bancho uses it as a means to find new people to fight. Atlus is giving you a chance to see what it’s like to be a bancho on a school trip with Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble, which is our first taste of this Japanese series. There is some entertainment to be had with this beat-‘em-up RPG, which is undermined by its own price.

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Last year’s New Xbox Experience update was a fundamental shift for Microsoft’s console. It not only brought in a brand new user interface and a bevy of new features to go along with it, but it laid the groundwork for a more modular platform that could more easily be evolved and extended. That has become evident over the past year with features simply appearing in the dashboard without having to do anything.

Recently Microsoft has released a ..read more

Episodic gaming so far in the past few years has been confined to the world of adventure games, but Ukraine developer Boolat Games is taking a chance with their episodic puzzle platformer on PSN. Topatoi: The Great Tree Story tries to set up the first part of a three-part story while introducing you to the mechanics that make it an interesting game.

The Great Tree Story starts with Raph and his friends flying through the clouds with their dirigible ..read more

While thousands of fans are signing a petition forcing themselves from buying the latest sequel to Left 4 Dead, the rest of us will be jumping into the new levels come November 17.  Valve has never released a sequel to a popular franchise this quickly (less than a year!), leaving many to doubt if Left 4 Dead 2 is just a glorified expansion (hence the petition).  But after seeing much of what is being changed, enhanced and more importantly added ..read more

Nine years after the last South Park game we were “blessed” with, doublesix games has stepped up to take on the challenge of making the first quality game based on the popular animated series. We definitely weren’t expecting to see this Xbox Live Arcade game turn out to be a tower defense game, but South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play does a great job of pulling the right things from the show to make for a compelling ..read more

Square Enix and Disney’s unusual hybrid of characters has worked incredibly well together and the Kingdom Hearts series has now become one of the flagship series for both Square Enix and Sony.  With the first two games expressing emotional storylines, addictive gameplay and memorable character interactions, the series has been on a steady rise as each new addition to the series is added.  While the combat and adventure in 358/2 Days is just as exciting and ..read more

With quite a few puzzle games on PlayStation Network, developers definitely need to have something unique to really stand out and not be just another puzzle game. Critter Crunch is a remake of an iPhone with gorgeous artwork and animation along with online multiplayer that makes for a value-packed package that puzzle fans should excited about.

Critter Crunch does have something of a story in its adventure mode, but it’s more or less a documentary done by a very ..read more

Aliens have been getting lazy lately by just using tractor beams to abduct people and animals rather than the old-fashioned way of doing it all by hand. Alien Havoc takes you back to those old ways by giving you the task of stealing cows by hand, but is this launch game for the PSP Minis worth its $5 price tag?

Being advertised as leaning towards a similar style to classic games of the past, Alien Havoc doesn’t really have much of ..read more

About 27 years ago, arcade games like Dig Dug and Mr. Do! offered some good arcade fun with a simple concept about digging underground to defeat monsters or find cherries. A year later, a PC game called Digger appeared with a similar concept, but with the goal of collecting gems in what was very much a clone of Mr. Do! and Dig Dug. 26 years later, Digger HD has surfaced to give the classic PC game a new ..read more