The month of October marked the release of possibly the biggest fad video game of the year: Bakugan Battle Brawlers. Featuring game dynamics just like the card/marble game, and tons of new Bakugan monsters and battle strategies, this is going to be an awesome game for fans of the Bakugan toys and the cartoon to eat up. It has been released on the Wii, DS, Sony PS3, PS2, and the XBox 360. The ga... more.

I've got blisters on me fingers! After a night-long adventure on tour around the world, I'm back and ready to report on this rock and roll experience. Rock Band: The Beatles is similar to recent Guitar Hero titles that feature Aerosmith, Metallica, and (soon) Van Halen. However, unlike Activision's titles, this swingin' 60s spinoff features only the main event. You will spend the entire game a... more.

NOTE - Review score is listed as 2 stars, but I would actually rate it a 2.5 if I could. It goes without saying that the video game industry has advanced quite a bit in the past few decades (yet here I am, saying it). And while most genres – action, sports, racing, fighting, etc. - have shifted from 2D to 3D, the puzzle genre has for the most part remained stubbornly in the former rather than... more.

The Nintendo Wii has been criticized by the enthusiast press as a console that has fully abandoned the “Hardcore” or “Core” gamer. For the majority of the products released this is true, but not for Sega’s new entry into the House of the Dead franchise titled Overkill. This game does not stray far from the House of the Dead formula of “shoot everything onscreen and don’t get hit,”... more.

If you walk into your favorite retro gaming store, pawn shop or thrift store and they offer you forty five plus Sega Genesis games for thrity bucks would you take it. I know that this seems like a dream but dreams sometimes do come true. Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, for the Xbox 360, helps this dream comes to fruition. If the Sega Genesis was part of your childhood, like it was for me, t... more.

After hearing that Acquire had once again picked up the reigns as the developers on the latest in the Tenchu series, Shadow Assassins, the hope was that it would have been a great experience for someone who enjoyed the original game as much as I had. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The Wii iteration in the franchise houses quite a few irritating control and gameplay mechanics that keep this ... more.

Just over a year ago Black Box released Skate, a brand new and totally unique control scheme made it a fresh and more realistic take on what a skating game should be. It was a great idea and it paid off for them as Skate was one of the most popular games in the skating genre. From what we have seen of Skate 2 thus far, it will be even more popular than its predecessor. There are many reasons why i... more.

Only a short time after the original Rock Band created a new standard for rhythm-based videogames, Harmonix has again raised the bar. Rock Band 2, though quite a bit like its predecessor, is definitley a positive addition to the plethora of new rhythm/music videogames. Guitar Hero created the genre but Rock Band and Rock Band 2 have taken the baton and are running away from the competition. The ge... more.