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In a franchise that has seen a lot of ups and downs, Super Double Dragon (also known as Return of Double Dragon) wasn’t the biggest hit when it released on the SNES in 1992. The side-scrolling genre had become saturated, and many gamers thought this entry didn’t innovate enough to warrant...

Castlevania. A name which evokes fond memories of feverish days and nights slaying errant vampires, gargoyles and all manner of ungodly creatures. If you’ve played any of the games in this series, you probably know what to expect – stellar platforming, exploration and combat. If you’ve played...

[attachment=17372:Super-Mario-Maker-Wii-U-Review.png] Everyone’s favorite plumber is back. And this time, you literally get to choose your own adventure. Unlike other games which have powerful, but incredibly complicated level editors, Super Mario Maker makes it easy for you to design a...

Batman is a complicated guy. Several times over Batman’s storied history, writers have talked about the emotional and psychological toll his actions have. Is Batman the cause of all of the problems that Gotham currently faces? Has he, as a shining symbol of justice, inadvertently caused the rise...

In The Witcher 3, enemies don’t explode into fairy dust and float harmlessly out of sight. Far from it. Heads roll, limbs are torn and innards are spilled. And yet, the game doesn’t revel in gore just for the sake of it. Each action, each death and each injury is backed by fantastic writing and...

Mortal Kombat X is a fantastic entry into a series that regained it’s footing with the last game. There’s a tremendously entertaining roster of characters, each with distinct fighting styles and fatalities. Even if you don’t head online, there’s plenty of content here to keep you entertained for...

Because for every sub-par, generic zombie game or movie, there is a Dying Light. Something that brings a fresh twist, a new take on the genre. Something which keeps what makes zombies fun intact, and adds variations and mechanics that make zombies fun again. What we have in Dying Light is a...

If you played Smash Bros. on the Wii U, your first thoughts after you look at this edition might be – “Well, this looks like a replica of the 3DS game.” After all, it has the exact same roster and the same plot. And then, once you start playing it, you’ll realize why the Wii U version is the...

Fans of modern RPG storytelling owe a debt of gratitude to Final Fantasy IV. FFI and FFIII had bare-bones stories—the player-characters didn’t even have names!—and while FFII’s story was a bit more elaborate (named Final Fantasy IV GBA Reviewcharacters fighting an ominous empire), it was still...

One of the most pleasant surprises of the end of the PS2’s life cycle were Atlus’s Persona 3 (2007) and Persona 4 (2008), both released in North America long after the next generation of consoles had come out. Battle in these RPGs is party-based combat in standard level-grinding dungeons, but...

Forty-five years ago tomorrow (as I write this), humans set foot on an extraplanetary body, the moon, for the first time. But today we’re here to talk about a more critical (if vaguer) anniversary: it’s been a little over one year since both Bioshock Infinite (March 2013) and The Last of Us...

What’s great about New ‘n’ Tasty: Is that it thoroughly embraces the weirdness of the original. You play as Abe, an alien on a strange planet who is out to free his Mudokon brethren from the evil factory where they’ve all been forced to work. Abe isn’t a superpowered alien, either. He’s just an...

For a game that is riddled with plot holes and missteps, Murdered is a surprisingly engaging experience that keeps you hooked until you reach the eerie climax. On the surface, it has all the problems that would normally cause you to disregard a game altogether within the first hour – lackluster...

While Borderlands 2 stretches the Vita to the absolute edges of its capabilities, the cracks only show in a few places during the game. Largely, this port of Gearbox’s great game remains enjoyable and has most of the charm of the original. The Vita version has a few DLCs and some bonus content...

If you actually lived in the world of Watch Dogs, you’d run into a lot of criminals, all the time. You would turning a corner on the street, just minding your own business, and out of nowhere you’d run into a petty thief or a chronic masturbator. The Chicago in Watch Dogs is not a pleasant...

Among the many games that use revisionist history plots, Wolfenstein has always been one of the most interesting. As one of the games that pioneered the entire FPS genre, the Wolfenstein series of games has long played with the idea of Nazi oppression, the human capacity for extreme violence and...

Sometimes, you just need to be by yourself. As prevalent and numerous as the virtues of positive thinking and happiness are, your body naturally needs a yin to the yang. Sometimes, you need to sit quietly, introspect, and allow yourself to be sad and melancholy if you need to be. While there’s...

Titanfall breathes new life into the multiplayer first person shooter. On the Xbox One, the graphics look amazing, with detailed mechs, fantastic draw distances, billows of smoke, gunfire and explosions. It builds on what has become commonplace in the online shooter arena and adds its own twists...

Has there ever been a character in games or in real life who is more prolific than Mario? This short Italian man with an adorable moustache has done plumbing, go-kart racing, played basketball, tennis, and even competed at the Olympic Games. That’s a lot of hats to wear for one guy. And not to...

A lot of us who’ve grown up with the golden age of gaming often look back and wonder what made those games so much fun. Was it the fact that we hadn’t been jaded by fantastic technology and graphical advancements, and therefore enjoyed every game that much more? Was it the fact that back then...