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Review: Secret World a treat for Lovecraft fans, wannabe detectives

Funcom's new massively multiplayer online RPG can be a lot of fun, if you overlook its forgettable combat.

By | August 16th, 2012|0 Comments

Review: Diablo III doesn’t tamper with formula

In a business climate in which "fans" freaked out over too-colorful screen shots, it's hard to fault Blizzard for playing it safe with "Diablo III."

By | June 7th, 2012|3 Comments

Review: The Witcher 2 truly rated ‘M for mature’

CD Projekt's role-playing epic is one of few M-rated games that actually feels "mature."

By | June 7th, 2012|0 Comments

Review: Picking through Mass Effect 3’s messy ending

"Mass Effect 3's" ending, while unspectacular, isn't worth freaking out about.

By | April 13th, 2012|0 Comments

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 [...]

By | February 14th, 2012|3 Comments

Revisiting X-COM, Syndicate

Sometimes, trying out the classics isn't all it's cracked up to be.

By | February 3rd, 2012|0 Comments

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.

By | January 27th, 2012|2 Comments

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.

By | January 20th, 2012|0 Comments

Calendar full of promising games

Blogger's note: This list of upcoming games I'm looking forward to appeared recently in The Press Democrat, but I held it back for publication so that I could add a few more titles I didn't have room for in print. Now that every video game company has cleared [...]

By | January 16th, 2012|0 Comments

My 2011 Game of the Year and runners-up

It’s been such a great year for video games I could make a convincing year-end top-five list featuring only games I came nowhere near finishing. The games I did play in 2011 astounded. This year’s tops five are all worthy of being Game of the Year, but decorum [...]

By | December 30th, 2011|0 Comments