The great sport of hockey has never been as popular south of the Canadian border as it is here, and since the lockout, it’s been even worse. While this is tragic for the sport, it has been great for Electronic Arts, whose NHL franchise has been able to go through some major changes without ticking [...]

Kojima Productions revels in telling stories through cinematics, tossing the controller aside for hours on end, though still keeping the player enthralled.

Boom Blox is about as strange of a video game as they come. Five years ago, this game would have never seen the light of day, but in today’s market for casual gaming, and with the name Steven Spielberg behind the title, Boom Blox manages to not only make it to market, but deliver an [...]

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin does a lot of things right: presentation, sound, unit balancing, and controls all work fine, and suit the DS perfectly. Yet, what’s underneath the hood of this sleek ’67 Shelby is a core engine that, while balanced, gets repetitive, boring, and full of stalemates.
As with previous titles in the series, [...]

SEGA’s Virtua Fighter got its start in 1993 as one of the first 3D fighting games, and its core gameplay remains as basic now as it was then: there are no supers, there are no fatalities, and there are no big, bouncing breasts. VF opts for a simpler, rock-paper-scissors approach to combat: guard beats hit, [...]