Atlus' unusual "Catherine" tasks players with solving difficult puzzles while navigating a love triangle that's straight out of a soap opera, if the soap opera were directed by David Lynch and influenced by "Nightmare on Elm Street."
The past few weeks of this slow summer have been spent playing "Catherine" and "Infamous 2," plus a handful of downloadable games and older releases.
Nexon's free-to-play MMO is in open beta and set to launch in a few days. Also worth a look from recent weeks, "Catherine," "Bastion" and "Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet," among others.
The latest first-person shooter from the studio behind classics such as "Doom" and "Quake" features the expected well-tuned gunplay but also some surprisingly fun vehicle segments and the voice work of John Goodman.
Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion is all well and good, but here's a look at a few great downloadable games that can hold their own against the format's very best.
The first Summer of Arcade release is a jaw-droppingly gorgeous, hand-painted adventure whose narrator helps it play like a living storybook.
I've been playing a heck of a lot of "Bastion," this week's Summer of Arcade release on Xbox 360. Sadly, it's still under embargo and I can't talk about it yet. Also earning heavy time in my consoles are "Infamous 2" and "Magic: The Gathering."
Before you can appreciate Obsidian Entertainments hack-and-slash role-playing game for what it is, you need to come to grips with its faults.
I finished off "Dungeon Siege III," started "Infamous 2" and had a heck of a time playing "Trenched" with my Xbox Live buddies.
The year's half over, and "Bulletstorm" unexpectedly stands tall as my game of the half-year.