When I was asked to review Risen, I actually had not even heard of the game before. It was made by Piranha Bytes, the developers responsible for the Gothic series, and had been released last year on the PC. While there are definitely some graphical hangups and some minor control issues, Risen ended up impressing me more than I thought it would. Though I can't recommend this game to just anyone, pe... more.

This weeks episode is the next to last time we'll be talking about Mass Effect 2 (aside from future DLC of course). Arsen couldn't make it this time so we'll give him a chance to talk about his ME2 experience in a couple weeks. Matt and I spoil the last half of this epic game and finish things off with a short discussion on some of the other things I've been playing recently. Intro and outro... more.

Anyone who listened to last week's Mass Effect 2 filled podcast knows how much one of my podcast cohorts, Arsen Nazaryan, loves scanning and gathering minerals in the game. This mundane activity in Mass Effect 2 normally makes me feel a need to put the TV tuner card in my PC to good use, but YouTube user Kabuto the Python took it as inspiration for a song. A pretty good one at that. Definitely wor... more.

Fable 2's co-op was very disappointing to me. The few times I did actually play the mode introduced in this sequel just proved to be a waste of time for the player who was entering the other's world since you couldn't join with your custom made character nor could you bring back any experience. Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead Studios, intends to change this in Fable 3. On last week's 4 Guys... more.

After the surprising success of the 1 vs. 100 game show experiment, Aaron Greenburg  over at Microsoft has mentioned that similar types of programs are indeed being thought of throughout the year.  With such a large install base (23 million people), it wasn't hard for them to convince advertisers to come on board. "It wasn't that hard for us to convince folks (advertisers)," Greenburg says. "... more.

As you'll hear from our most recent podcast (where Jon, Matthew, and I vehemently show our support for the game), there's a ton of excitement over Mass Effect 2. Why is that? Because Bioware is an excellent development studio and Mass Effect was the epitome of a shooter-RPG gaming experience. Now we have the chance to do it all over again through two disks instead of one? Yeah, there's a reason we... more.

Bayonetta is an over-the-top, visually stunning, button mashing mayhem. Besides a few lengthy cut scenes (which you can skip), and a story that almost makes sense, it’s just plain fun. It’s a mish mash of action: everything from shooting, melee fighting, morphing, vehicles, surfing….whatever, it’s got it in there somewhere. The story seems like a clear cut light versus dark, (at first).... more.

The year 2009 was a great one for gaming. Being a gaming site, we here at AmpedGaming felt the need to throw in our two cents on which games brought us the most enjoyment throughout the last year of the decade. Since the staff is scattered across the country and we are neither rich nor able to just swap games with each other and weren't able to play everything that came out, we thought we would do... more.

Capcom's Lost Planet 2 takes place 10 years after the events of the first game on the same frigid planet. As far as I know the release date is as yet undetermined, but is due sometime after April 2010.  A demo was release a while back for both PSN and Xbox Live. Pictures courtesy of GamesPress: ... more.

As of lately there has been a slew of really well made fan film based on video games. Like in a previous post, I'm not one to put them up unless they are exceptional. So here's another fan film that I though was great.... more.