If looking at screenshots of the game immediately make you think of the first few minutes of the superhero blockbuster hit, The Dark Knight, you’re not alone.  Is it as good as The Dark Knight?  Definitely not, but PayDay: The Heist is a fun game to play that should surprise a lot of shooter fans.

What Is It?

PayDay: The Heist is a multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Overkill Software, and that’s all there really is to say.  The premise of the ..read more

2D platformers are nothing new, especially when they’re downloadable games available on services such as the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Marketplace.  Every once in a while, though, there are sidescrollers that are pleasing, and the PSN has a fresh one in Sideway: New York.

What Is It?

Sideway: New York is a title that immediately showcases a unique sense of style.  The game puts you in the shoes of Nox, a graffiti artist tagging away on the walls of New ..read more

The Hardboiled Chicken fights back against the Penguin regime that in this 2D shooter on PSN.

What’s This Game About?

Hardboiled Chicken is on a mission to take out the leader of the totalitarian Penguins that have taken over Albatropolis and free them from the tyranny that they’ve endured under their rule. The infamous commando is very much on a warpath towards his goal that emulates action heroes like Arnold and Stallone and has the cheesy one-liners to match his destructive capabilities.

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Released in 1999, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is unquestionably one of the most finely-crafted games of all time, with a number of players considering it among the greatest overall. With such a strong following, it’s no question why fans were disheartened when the legacy Xbox Live shutdown left gamers without a completely legitimate way to play 3rd Strike online. That all changed at the 2010 San Diego ComicCon, when current Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono announced 3rd Strike ..read more

Sony apologized to everybody for the damages caused by the PlayStation Network outage, talked about a ton of PS3 games, and announced key details for the Vita’s upcoming launch.

It wasn’t a huge surprise that Sony began their press conference by apologizing to retailers, their publishing and developing partners, and most importantly, their customers for the issues and damages that the PSN outage caused. With the situation is nearly wrapped up at this point, Sony used the rest of ..read more

Coming off of a horrendous situation with the PlayStation Network hack and subsequent downtime, Sony certainly has a lot of bad will to try to reverse with what looks to be a stacked lineup of games, a new handheld that will be launching in the near future, and some secrets to unveil when the Sony E3 Press Conference takes place on June 6 at 5 PM PST (8 PM EST).

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The first item that Sony should be addressing to start ..read more

Developed by feelplus, this addition to Square Enix’s growing DLC library has received a fair amount of attention namely for being dubbed the “Strider of the 21st century.”  After quite a bit of time with the game, such a statement might need some revising even with Strider’s great Koichi Yotsui at the director’s chair.

What Is It About?

Originally known as Necromachina, Moon Diver is an action-packed sidescrolling beat-em-up that is just about as forgiving as a dictator enforcing stupid rules.  The ..read more

After releasing Ghostbusters: The Video Game in June 2009, Atari is back with the follow-up effort Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime on the XBLA and PSN. An arcade “shooter”, it offers an original story. However, with no Ghostbusters movie release or anniversary to provide a reason for this game’s release, does it have enough to stand out on its own? What’s It About? Sanctum of Slime’s story follows a group of rookie Ghostbusters instead of the characters from the movies. So instead of ..read more

eastasiasoft and SideQuest Studios, the publisher and developer of the Soldner-X games on PSN respectively, have announced a new game for PlayStation Network called Rainbow Moon. Rather than make another shooter, Rainbow Moon is instead a strategy RPG that is an interesting new project for a developer that’s known for quality shooters. The story stars a man named Baldren, who has been warped to a beautiful planet called Rainbow Room by his arch nemesis. The dimensional gate that brought ..read more

Q-Games’ follow-up to their acclaimed 2009 shooter adds some new fluids, a light/dark mechanics, and multiplayer to the dynamic fluid action.

What’s It About?

This will be a spoiler since PixelJunk Shooter 2 begins right where the first game ended, which means that the game begins inside of the gigantic worm-like creature that has swallowed your ship whole. In addition to the water, magma, and magnetic fluids, Shooter 2 adds new obstacles to mess around with like stomach acid, an infestation-style fluid ..read more

The sequel to the acclaimed remake of Bionic Commando finally adds the ability to jump.

What’s It About?

While Grin’s 3D Bionic Commando may not have done well as Capcom would have liked, their 2.5D remake of the original NES Bionic Commando struck a chord with players the year before and sold really well as a result. Though Grin may be gone, a number of former Grin employees came to Fatshark to work on the follow-up that gives it some ..read more

Tales From Space: About A Blob combines Katamari Damacy with 2D platforming in the PlayStation Network debut for Drinkbox Studios.

What’s It About?

Tales From Space: About A Blob begins as a group of blobs launch themselves off of a planet into space towards the Earth. A mysterious scientist notices the group of blobs and fires some missiles to stop them, which results in knocking out a smaller orange blob that he captures and brings to the laboratory in his ..read more

EA’s latest downloadable title for XBLA and PSN takes the dual-stick shooter genre to some very tiny places that you haven’t seen before.

What’s It About?

MicroBot begins with the microscopic robot under your control being injected into a subject’s body at MicroHexen Research, where previous iterations of this revolutionary medical technology have turned against their makers and are working with the viruses they were created to fight. You’re tasked with ridding this body of those ..read more

When the Sega Dreamcast launched on September 9th 1999 it did so with a handful of games. Some of them were excellent arcade translations like Soul Calibur and Hydro Thunder, and others were less than stellar, like TrickStyle. The one game everyone seems to remember is Sonic Adventure. Eleven years later Sonic Adventure is now available for download via Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Is it a good reminder of times past?

What’s It About?

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Though Gamescom hasn’t been a place for many publishers to make big announcements, Sony has followed up their PS3 Slim and price drop announcements at 2009′s Gamescom Convention in Cologne, Germany with two big games announcements from Insomniac Games and some other interesting bits of news during their press conference today. The first of Insomniac’s announcements was Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, which is being made by Insomniac’s new North Carolina studio for release in Fall of 2011. ..read more

We always like to see developers reward their fans with free things, even before their latest game has even come out. Shank developer Klei Entertainment spread word earlier today that they would release the soundtrack for their upcoming XBLA and PSN brawler once the amount of fans on their Facebook page surpassed 1500 fans. The only problem is that Klei underestimated the response they would get, so the soundtrack was not ready for release when they passed 1500 fans. While you ..read more

I can easily say that ModNation Racers is a very good kart racing game that offers great user-creation tools that are easy to use and the actual racing mechanics are fun with a lot of stuff to do both offline and online, so when we saw the lengthy load times that came with it, it was kind of like having a delicious cake with icing that is extremely thick and too sweet. To give you an idea of ..read more

As the hack-and-slash loot RPG genre is getting a revival on the PC with the release of Torchlight and the upcoming Diablo 3, the consoles haven’t seen much of the genre lately outside of some hybrids like Patapon and Borderlands. Hothead Games and Ron Gilbert are bringing the genre to XBLA and PSN with the kind of humorous spin that you’d expect from the creator of the Monkey Island series.

DeathSpank stars a hero named DeathSpank who is ..read more