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Mortal Kombat Vita
Mortal Kombat stands as a historical monument for video games. Unlike Sonic or Mario, the series has heavily influenced games in ways unimaginable. Thanks to Mortal Kombat, we not only have the ESRB but we also have discovered several anti-video game activists we can add to our personal hit lists thanks to their excessive speeches [...]
Twisted Metal
What happened to the days of ridiculous caricatures of popular archetypes? What happened to the days of excessive violence and heavy metal overlaying childish glee? The newest Twisted Metal attempts to rekindle this spirit and does so admirably. Having a shaky track record, the series seems to finally realize itself for what it is; developer [...]
Mass Effect 3
Thank you Star Wars. Thank you Battlestar Galactica. Thank you Star Trek. Thank you H.P. Lovecraft. Thank you every science fiction writer for laying the way for Bioware to create and wonderfully conclude this epic that is Mass Effect. Coming into Mass Effect 3 after enjoying its amazing previous title, I was worried that it [...]
Sine Mora Review
I’ll be honest with you: I have never been a massive fan of the shoot-’em-up genre. I played “Ikaruga” for 5 minutes until I realized that the attempt was essentially futile, so I put my controller down, pushed it aside, and started another random, more accessible game. Why in the world would I raise my [...]
Warp
Warp is Trapdoor’s first game which tells the story of an alien escape. A simple concept woven into a puzzle game that has been slapped with an M rating for some brutal violence and language. Sounds like an interesting combination, but how well does it turn out? I’d say pretty well. You play the adorable [...]
Asura’s Wrath
It has finally come to this folks. Years and years of permitting poor game design choices and you get what you rightly deserve, Asura’s Wrath. I hear people parading around on their glorious hate train saying how stupid Capcom is for creating a game that ends up being a very expensive anime. Well it is [...]
Gotham City Impostors
So did you hear the news? Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty had a baby. Yep. No, it’s not cute at all. It’s very light too. I don’t know. I didn’t even know they were dating let alone knockin’ boots. Regardless, that poor little thing is going to be a deranged little bastard. Those [...]
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
There is something about an ambitious brand new IP coming from a development team full of all-star fantasy entertainment creators that really get my nerd juices flowing, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning definitely fits that bill. Imagine the hack-and-slash gameplay of the best Action/RPG, mix it with the open world aspects of a Fallout or [...]
Saints Row the Third
As the gaming industry grows and attempts to take itself a bit more seriously, there are fewer games that embrace absurdity, mischief, and violence. Close to the top of the game titles that don’t take themselves very seriously is THQ and Volition’s Saints Row series. The latest iteration of this series, Saints Row the Third, [...]
