Review: Portal 2 matches the hype
“Portal 2″ has considerably more expectations put on it than its low-key predecessor, yet it equals or surpasses the original in nearly every way.… Read More »
Improving the 2010 Game of the Year
Even though it’s my game of the year, and I’ve celebrated it as such, I can’t close the book on “BioShock 2″ without mentioning a few areas where I saw room for improvement.… Read More »
E3 Tuesday recap
So I can get some sleep, I’m going to avoid recapping Tuesday as exhaustively as I did Monday. I spent the time I normally would have devoted to a comprehensive recap of Tuesday writing my column on the 3DS, Kinect and PlayStation Move for Friday’s paper. In lieu of a full-fledged recap, I’ll give you the quick rundown of what I did Tuesday. Things started off with the Nintendo and Sony media briefings, which I’ll try to cover later in… Read More »
What to play this weekend (May 21-23)
All right, there’s been a lot of good stuff in the past two weeks, so I’ll just cut to the chase. I hit a lot of the major releases here, but I’ll still mention ‘em here briefly. “Super Mario Galaxy 2″ (rated E, $50 on Wii, due out Sunday), “Red Dead Redemption” (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3), “Alan Wake” (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360) and “Split/Second” (rated T, $60 on Xbox 360 or PS3): I… Read More »
Solid first steps
Why the “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker” tutorial I played rubbed me the wrong way, plus a short list of games with compelling ways of teaching gamers how to play them. This post is an expanded version of the column that ran in Friday’s paper.… Read More »
What to play this weekend (Jan. 29-31)
“Mass Effect 2″ (rated M, $60 on PC or Xbox 360): For someone like me, who loves a good story, well-written characters and believable dialogue, this is the huge game this week. If you’re at all interested in sci-fi role-playing games and own a gaming PC or an Xbox 360, this is a no-brainer pickup. It works like past BioWare games. You start out alone, recruit squad members and work to take down something evil. In this case, you’re trying… Read More »