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 [...]

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 [...]

Wii Fit is deceptively not a video game. I enjoyed both Brain Age games, but I had trouble convincing myself, even after Dr. Kawashima showed me all the studies he did, that it actually helped keep my brain young. As I got better at it, it didn’t feel like I was getting smarter, it felt [...]

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 [...]

The music in this game deserves its own paragraph, as it’s one of the most ambitious video game soundtracks ever. The main theme, complete with a choir singing in Latin, might seem like a bit much the first time you hear it, but it fits. There are dozens of tracks in here - many from [...]

The video game industry, she’s a-changing. Peggle sold better than Halo 3 last year and Nintendogs owners are eighteen million strong. So-called “casual games” are bigger than anything now, and nobody’s doing better with (or more for) the trend than Nintendo, who have led the way with everything from the aforementioned pet simulator to Wii [...]

No More Heroes tones down the insanity from Grasshopper Manufacture’s last console title, Killer 7, with a plot that’s fairly easy to follow and characters that are still eccentric, but not freakish (at least most of the time), while putting the gameplay into a more enjoyable place. So it’s more accessible, and yup, it’s a [...]

First, let me say EA is beginning to annoy me. Why must they continue to make decent games? Everyone loved the evil empire shtick. You knew where you stood with EA - they make awful games and you could hate them for it.
But FIFA 08 is just another game in a line of successes for [...]

Super Mario Galaxy is like seeing your old best friend again after years apart. While he was gone, your other friends seemed like good substitutes, but now that he’s back you wonder who the hell you were hanging out with all this time. We used to be able to expect this kind of special game [...]

I find it a little hard to believe that anything I say in this review could possibly sway your opinion of Guitar Hero III one way or another. Even though GH3 was developed by Neversoft, and is obviously a bit different from the previous two games, it’s not likely to stop you from making the [...]