There may be hope for the videogame franchise yet. Judging by the way Fable II played out, I think developers may have finally got it. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel to have a good game. Fable II’s story has many parallels to the first: you have no parents, your sister has been killed, [...]
Any gamer could tell you that Gears of War 2 is coming out this November, and they’d also tell you about how they’ve been wetting their pants over gameplay footage for the past few months. But a month and a half is a little long for the average gamer to sit and wait for the [...]
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, has been the trade show to bring us all of the latest gaming news every year since 1995. Gaming systems have always been introduced first at E3. Playstation was given a hardware performance demo and the Nintendo 64 was announced at E3 ’95. Ever since, E3 has been the expo [...]
Allow me to start off by saying that I’d like to keep an introduction short so you can get right to the list of the best 17 SNES games ever made. Why 17? I originally wanted to have a top 10 of SNES games, but the list was way too hard to compress any further. [...]
How many years has it been…? The very first time I heard about Lost Odyssey, I was immediately hooked. As a fan of the Final Fantasy series for over a decade, I witnessed the flourishing SNES and PS1 days, the decline of the SquareSoft company, the devastating resignation of Hironobu Sakaguchi, and the eventual merge into [...]
Finally, a step in the right direction When I first saw the preview for The Darkness, for the Xbox360, I thought what any next-generation gamer would think: “Great, another shooter about aliens with no depth at all.” We’ve come to expect shooters to have fun gameplay, but lacking in the department of originality and an actual [...]
It’s hard to believe how long it has been since the September 25, 2007 release of Halo 3. In such a short period of time, Halo 3 has sold millions of copies of the third installment in the Halo trilogy. But when all is said and done, what will Halo 3 be remembered for? Surely [...]