Video Games

Does Your Shooter Really Need Single-Player And Multiplayer?

I like my games how I like my women: Cheap. The current generation of games costs sixty dollars a pop if you buy on launch day, and publishers have all sorts of pre-buy bonuses to justify jumping on early, yet I still rarely buy games when they first come out.  It’s much too easy to predict the pricing cycle, and just wait two months for the first online sales to roll around, or wait a year until the “Game of the year edition” is in the bargain bin at Best Buy.  The bonuses for buying early don’t outweigh the 40 dollars I can save if I’m patience and frugal.

Can’t Wait for DC Universe Online? Try These Games

It’s a little over a week before DC Universe Online hits store shelves.  Are you dying to create your own online Green Lantern, or Batlad, but just can’t wait for the game to come out?  Well, here are a few other super-powered titles for you to focus your super impatience on until DCU’s drop date of January 11^th.

5 Movie Games That Don’t Suck

Movie-based video games are the game industry’s equivalent of garbage. More often than not, they are hastily cobbled together lines of code that only vaguely resemble the movie, much less any playable representation of said movie. It is even said by some that the E.T. game for the Atari 2600 was a big factor in the video game crash of 1983; even if that is untrue, it is confirmed that somewhere in the New Mexico desert there are more E.T. cartridges than should ever be in one place, lest it summons some terrible force from beyond our dimension. However, amid these abominations there are a few gems, diamonds in the rough if you will; these are 5 movie games that don’t suck.

Video Game Inventions That Should Be Made (1/2/2011)

Video games have shown us many things in the relatively short time they have existed. They have shown us brilliant and fantastic worlds that have yet to be imagined, and introduced us to characters that appeal to every sense. While these avatars and environments are confined to the virtual space, there is no reason that we should not be able to use them as inspiration to invent real world products. This is the second installment in a series where we challenge the notion of what reality really is.

PC Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2011: Part 3

When I was a child, the year 2010 seemed like the distant future.  An amazing technologically-advanced utopia where people could play games on mechanical thinking machines connected to each other via a vast electromagnetic web of digital entertainment!  Looking back on last year, the real 2010 far exceeded my expectation; my childish dreams of what a video game might be were dwarfed by the realities of projects like Mass Effect 2.  As of today, 2010 is part of the past.  Henceforth, I’ll look back on that time as a primitive period when Dragon Age 2 wasn’t available, and subhuman savages entertained themselves with primeval entertainment software. 

Dead Rising 2: Case West Review

Dead Rising is a series that is much more about the journey than the destination. Yeah, the game may list your current goal as getting to Point X by a certain time, but that’s just an excuse to let you run through a mall in a banana hammock, disemboweling zombies with a chainsaw. Unfortunately, Case West misses this point and while the underlying formula will still satisfy Dead Rising fans it definitely feels like a weak link in the series.

5 Anticipated Xbox 360 Games for 2011

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Developer: Eidos Studios Montreal
Publisher: Square Enix

The original Deus Ex was way ahead of its time when it was released on the PC in the year 2000. Instead of dictating the path the player took through the game, Deus Ex was all about offering choices – do you mow down your cyber terrorist foes Rambo-style, or take a more stealthy approach by hacking into their security feeds? Maybe you want to pick them off from afar with sniper rifles. Maybe you combine all three tactics. You were free to specialize your character in any number of skills, and the game presented viable routes through the game for all of them.