Desperation will lead a man to do strange and ill advised things. Eating your deceased and frozen friends after surviving a plane crash in the mountains comes to mind, and while no actual cannibalism occurs in Space Siege, it is not that bad of a comparison. I had a strong desire to click on things [...]

There used to be a lull in summer releases. I almost welcomed it; there was finally time to catch up on the games I missed during the previous November crunch, or at the very least pad my gamerscore with marginal releases. XBLA and the advent of console digital distribution has brought an expensive end to that.

Resurrecting a flagging or dead franchise is a risky endeavor. Sometimes it works and the series becomes relevant again, like with Resident Evil 4. Other times it is the nail in the coffin, like last year’s Tony Hawk’s Horse Beating Simulator. Re-envisioning Alone in the Dark should not have been that hard; there were almost [...]

Happy Tree Friends the web cartoon is an incredibly violent, cringe-inducing spectacle that I am embarrassed to watch and occasionally nauseated by. It takes cute characters and puts them through sadistic torture, including but not limited to scalping, being crushed by vending machines, skinning, immolation, loss of limbs, decapitation, evisceration, defenestration and any other –tion you can think if. I love it.

You would think that a review of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith would be as simple as asking the player two questions. One; did you like Guitar Hero 3, and two; do you like Aerosmith, and perhaps three; are you offended by Steven Tyler’s massive virtual pie hole? Thankfully, there is just a little more to it [...]

Discussing Metal Gear has a lot in common with talking about religion or politics with extended family over Thanksgiving dinner: things start out amicably enough, but quickly devolve into shouting, name calling, and perhaps flying mashed potatoes. If you were to put five people in a locked room and force them to talk about it, [...]

Political commentary is just fine for Fox News and its ilk. I do not enjoy it, nor am I informed enough to care, and can avoid it entirely just by skipping a channel. It has its own bloviated space, and that’s fine so long as it leaves me and one of my favorite pastimes alone. [...]

It is very difficult to be truly objective about anything, especially if there is any amount of anticipation involved. It doesn’t matter if a person is a professional reviewer, writes a few on the side, or is just some Joe buying Madden for the tenth time; if someone is looking forward to something, odds are [...]

The Gran Turismo series has always intimidated me. Between the realistic handling, obnoxiously difficult mandatory license tests, and extreme depth of content, they ended up feeling like work after a relatively short time. Even so, I have played them all because they look incredible and you get to go fast in un-dent-able cars that no [...]

I am pretty indiscriminate about what I play. Games show up in my mailbox, I play them, usually find something of worth and then send them on their way. It should come as no surprise that a significant portion of what I play amount to below-average games, but even then almost every game has at [...]