Tag Archives: NES

Waiting to be reborn Updated with the Community Choice entry! If you had told us five years ago that we would love an XCOM game, we wouldve called you crazy. The original X-COM: UFO Defense was no doubt a great game, with a grip of devoted fans that still play …

Just release it here already In 2012, most games released in Japan end up making their way to the US and UK–its rare that a big-budget title isnt also localized and pushed out in the two largest gaming territories in the world. Sure, we still miss out on some dating …

Lucas: I’ve staved off Guild Wars 2 from consuming my life thus far, but I may succumb to its charms over the long weekend. Then again, I’ll have to up my skills in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in preparation for the review; hopefully my sparring partner (one Mr. Grimm) doesn’t …

(opens in new tab) Everyone knows about Penny Arcade–the gaming webcomic that is somewhat responsible for the legitimacy of gaming webcomics–but for as big and important as Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik’s online comic is, it’s really their convention that has, more recently, become an astounding success. Starting in 2004 …

Recently Hideki Kamiya, exec at critical darling Platinum Games and director of Okami (opens in new tab), made news when talking about Sony’s PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale (opens in new tab). To quote Kamiya (opens in new tab), “It’s just a rip-off.” And as someone who has given over roughly …

Mario basically invented sidescrollers. Sonic brought the genre into the 90s. of these iconic mascots have been bitter rivals since the console wars of the early 1990s, when Sega and Nintendo were exchanging heated ad campaigns, and schoolyards were divided over which character was the best. Recently both characters have …

Song: Wings of Glory by Non-Stop Music This week was a little slow trailer-wise, but there were still some good ones out there. With a few games coming out this week like the dark, post-apocalyptic Deadlight (opens in new tab) and upcoming movie-based Expendables 2: The Video Game (opens in …

Song: Protectors of Earth by Two Steps From Hell Last week’s Supertrailer had a handful of Comic Con trailers, and this week had a few left over from it too. Besides that, we got to see a good amount of gameplay from Resident Evil 6, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and …

Song: Guardians at the Gate by Audio Machine This week had by far more trailers than usual because of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo aka E3. Generally we expect a lot of trailers around this time of year, but with Nintendo revealing a good amount of Wii U games (opens …

Weve collected eight of our favorite fighting brothers for you and tattling to mother about how he hit me wont do these hermanos any good. Paxton Fettel / Point Man (F.E.A.R.) Fettel comes back in ghostly form for FEAR 3 (we’re done writing it that other way), serving as a …