Review: Picking through Mass Effect 3′s messy ending
“Mass Effect 3′s” ending, while unspectacular, isn’t worth freaking out about.… Read More »
Review: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
The bite-sized “Alan Wake’s American Nightmare” is a noble experiment in how to extend a franchise.… Read More »
Impressions of Vita games
Though the PlayStation Vita is an impressively built piece of technology, the pricey handheld will live and die by the quality of its software. Here’s a look at some Vita launch window titles.… Read More »
A little slice of game-related music
Chairlift’s “Grand Theft Auto”-inspired tune is a rare standout in the field of songs that take their cues from video games.… Read More »
PlayStation Vita: Initial impressions
Sony’s new PlayStation Vita handheld is an impressive piece of technology, but its high price means its initial customer base will be made up primarily of hardcore handheld players.… Read More »
Final Fantasy XIII-2 a time travel success
Early in “Final Fantasy XIII-2,” Square Enix’s time-travel-infused, role-playing game from Japan, a character expresses envy of the game’s era-hopping heroes, saying she’d like nothing more than to find a comfy point in history and just settle down and start a life there. In a way, that’s what the most ardent fans of the long-running series want, too. Every “Final Fantasy” nut has a favorite, usually 1997’s “Final Fantasy VII,” which helped popularize Japanese-style role-playing games in America and sits… Read More »
Make your own gaming videos: Hauppauge PVR review
If you’ve played anything more complex than “Angry Birds” in the past few years, chances are you’ve watched at least a few amateur gaming-related videos on YouTube. From trailers and guides explaining how to get past tricky spots to “machinima” series that pair game footage with added voice-overs to tell entirely original stories, gaming videos are huge. As someone who delights in gaming’s eccentricities as well as its accomplishments, I’ve long been curious about how much work goes into making… Read More »
Revisiting X-COM, Syndicate
Sometimes, trying out the classics isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.… Read More »
Digging deeper on Star Wars: The Old Republic
Some additional thoughts on BioWare’s new “Star Wars” massively multiplayer online game that didn’t make it into last week’s review, namely the fact that my jedi is always broke.… Read More »
Star Wars The Old Republic: A newbie’s view
BioWare’s massively multiplayer “Star Wars” game set thousands of years before the movies is well-suited to fans of the universe and beginning MMO players.… Read More »