For someone like me, who stinks at side-scroller games, I have to admit I was somewhat wary of playing this game. But it won me over completely. The gameplay, the artwork, the music and even the simple storyline fit together really nicely and it felt like just the right length. At $20 it’s worth every penny and if you still don’t believe me, there’s even a demo you can download. A mag... more.

I had the pleasure of checking out the the new Arkham Asylum free DLC that was released today for everyone's version of the game. The first part of the DLC is entitled "Totally Insane" and it is a combat challenge similar to the ones you fight in the non-stealth oriented fights in the regular Challenge Mode with two twists: one, for the first time they've included the psychopaths (or lunatics?... more.

Recession Gamer Top Spin 2 (on Direct2Drive for $9.99) vs. Virtua Tennis 2009 (same site for $29.99) Is the new Virtua Tennis 2009 really $20 better than Top Spin 2? There's a recession on, in case you're lucky enough not to have noticed. Lots of us have had to cut back in some of the more superfluous areas of our budgets. While we would love to be able to go out and get the new... more.

Blood Bowl (Cyanide Studios) – now available In Brief – The second commercial PC release of the classic Games Workshop board/miniatures game Blood Bowl is a great example of how vivid visuals combined with an anxiety-inducing, tense gameplay system that has been continually improved over its twenty-two year lifetime (it is currently in its 5th edition of the table-top rules) can make for... more.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="436" caption="Control fictional or real historical teams in Out of the Park Baseball X"][/caption] In Detail: Have you ever wanted to see if you could lead your favorite baseball team to a World Series victory? How about doing it in the year 1967? 1912? How about finally realizing your dream of running a professional baseball league in Uganda? Out of the... more.

Games that give you the choice of being good or evil have been around for a while now. From Baldur's Gate to inFAMOUS, this category seems to be slowly evolving. One thing that is not found very often is the choice to be "evil or more evil", something the developers at Triumph Studios have brought about in the form of the Overlord series. While Overlord II is the first game in the series I hav... more.

Gamers rejoice as the Call of Duty franchise moves toward another Modern Warfare installment. Why? Because people are tired of playing through the same old wars in every game. We’ve seen D-Day more times than we care to remember. We’ve tamed Iwo Jima over and over again. We’ve crushed the Tet Offensive under several different boots. It seems that producer Activision finally got tired of wait... more.

“Go to Grandmother’s House. And stay on the path.” Those are your only instructions in this surreal Red Riding Hood indie game. Choose from 6 sisters, send them off through the forest to grandma’s house and see if they make it there unharmed. In this simple exploration game, all you control is where the character walk/runs and who and what they interact with. Occasionally you will find ... more.

One of the best selling PC game franchises of all time, The Sims, has been a longtime favorite of mine since the very first in the series.  Countless hours were spent staring at my monitor, possibly open-mouthed, ordering the virtual people around and helping them achieve much more than I was at that point in my life. Now, over nine years after the first game's release, 15 expansion packs and num... more.

Stardock's and Ironclad's RTS game Sins of a Solar Empire proclaims itself as having an epic scale beyond anything existing within the RTS genre currently.  This is a pretty large boast to make in a genre that strives for gargantuan scales and superior tactical controls.  So the question begs, does Sins of a Solar Empire deliver? The answer is an undoubtedly resounding yes.  Using your mouse... more.