Tag Archives: Action

The largest transformation in Mario’s history came with the shift from 2D to 3D in Super Mario 64. He handled the transition well, but the platforming plumber was never the same. From that point on, Mario’s console releases started to take on a form of their own, with new mechanics …

With about eight years between us and the last Max Payne, the wait for a new game was beginning to feel like the endless screams of a tortured child as it sees the corpse of its mother laying dead on the rain-slicked concrete of a city overcome by indifference. But …

It’s not that the DS’ New Super Mario Bros. was a crap game by any stretch of the imagination, of course. In fact it was bloody brilliant. But throughout, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I was playing a game that lacked the freshness and spark that core Mario …

Rockstar has selected September 13th as the day it shows Red Dead Redemption players some extra love in the form of a free multiplayer DLC offering entitled the Myths & Mavericks Bonus Pack. First announced in July, the Myths & Mavericks Bonus Pack is Rockstar’s no-charge love letter to the …

Without question, the two God of War games released on PSP are among the very best titles ever to appear on the handheld. That’s not just according to us, either; God of War: Chains of Olympus still stands as the highest-rated PSP game of all time on Metacritic, and while …

During the long wait for Uncharted 3 every drop of gameplay is a double-edge sword. We’d really like to go into the game fresh with every amazing action set piece a surprise, and yet we’re so hyped for the title that we can’t wait to watch any new video, like …

We liked the original No More Heroes when it came out on the Wii way back in the dusky year of 2008 because it was crazy in a way that no Western game could pull off. That’s not a surprise to anyone familiar with Suda51 (real name: Goichi Suda), the …

Shadow Complex was a big success for Chair Entertainment and its owner Epic Games, so it%26rsquo;s not surprising that last March Chair%26rsquo;s creative director Donald Mustard promised (opens in new tab) the company would be delivering a follow-up. Speaking today at GDC Europe, Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, explained …

David Jaffe made the unfortunate announcement that Twisted Metal won’t ship until early 2012, on the PlayStation Blog (opens in new tab). He cited that the game still needs more dev time, while making the same earnest plea that all game developers must make when the time comes, saying “Thing …

It’s beenalmost a year (opens in new tab)since we heard anything about Grasshopper Manufacture’s XBLA and PSN retro steam-future styled action game Sine Moria, so long that we’d nearly forgotten about it. But today the skies opened up we got the we got the first trailer for the title. The …