Review

Hoard is an action-strategy game where you play as a fire-breathing dragon. If that doesn’t immediately grab your attention, there’s probably something wrong with you. Being a dragon of the Tolkien variety, you’re a particularly greedy bastard who spends the entire game burninating the countryside and robbing the dirty peasant …

The Combat of Giants series of games is one that has typically failed to impress. This can be attributed to lack of polish, ambition, and general effort on the parts of developers. The most recent title, Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D continues this proud tradition of not-even-aiming-for-mediocrity as the worst …

While it rules the console fighting game scene with an iron fist (sorry Tekken), Street Fighter’s handheld offerings have almost always had to make some kind of sacrifice. Early conversions to the Game Boy family had to deal with fewer buttons and hardware limitations, which meant console-level play was impossible. …

Where The Phantom Menace failed, Knights Of The Old Republic succeeds brilliantly. This is a Star Wars prequel done right – with nary a Gungan in sight. KOTOR takes place 4,000 years before the movies, during the Old Republic’s 10,000 year reign. All the familiar technology, however, had already been …