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Inspired by the real life events of Violette Szabo during the Second World War, Velvet Assassin places players in the boots of Violette Summer, tasked with the disruption of the Nazi war machine far behind the front lines of the escalating conflict. And though that summary is sufficient for...

Since we all share in the spoils of the human condition, we also share a universal sense of identity as “the little guy” against the forces around us, regardless of our station – forever locked in a strange and strained relationship with the machinery that both sustains and enslaves us. Whether...

Tokyo Beat Down wears its intentions on two very blood-stained sleeves. This tiny DS cartridge has a serious attitude that instantly infected the office. Even Atlus threatened to beat us up depending on the outcome of this review. The game leads through the familiar ground of a faded genre with...

As a graphic novel, Watchmen did wonders to legitimize the comic book as a medium for mature storytelling. The tale of dysfunctional heroes set in an alternate world where Woodward and Bernstein were unsuccessful in their Watergate investigation, Nixon stayed on as President, and Vietnam was an...

So Master Chief and Darth Vader walk into a bar – stop me if you’ve heard this one before… As several rounds of bourbon begin setting in, a noise erupts from the back as a drunken advertising executive starts belting out a broken rendition of “Rhinestone Cowboy.” Both characters simultaneously...

Street Fighter IV marks a strange milestone in videogaming history. Its recent home release for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is optimized for play on our HDTV home theatre set-ups, and yet its arcade roots remain obscure to most gamers who will play the game. It’s a rare occasion of the first home...

This might just be the absolute best appraisal I've ever heard!

Videogame is one word. When someone writes “video game,” I think of an Atari, and the way its wood-grain finish matched the hulking television that occupied the larger part of one’s living room. I think of games that happened to be playable with the aid of video, and of the crude lines and blips...

Though his work remains obscure, Doctor Cairn Kipling devoted his life to understanding the thought process of the animal kingdom, particularly the domestic dog. For over 20 years, he lived in a modest home in Austria, raising and studying a pack of Papillons. Though the details of his grisly...

Sega did respond to the re-surfacing of these blog posts, if any one is interested: http://www.torontothumbs.com/2009/01/08/sega-chimes-in/

When Koji Igarashi appears with that iconic whip on his hip, he wants us to believe that he IS Castlevania. But considering how the series has developed through recent handheld iterations, I often wondered why he would want to perpetuate that idea. And then when I initially heard that Order of...

Hi all, TorontoThumbs has received copies of the limited edition art book that was a pre-order bonus for Valkyria Chronicles and is running a contest during January to give these sought after collectibles away...

Excerpt from Toronto Thumbs Review of Prince of Persia: "Prince of Persia’s primary concern is the presentation of an artistic pursuit. In describing the visual aesthetics of the game, reviewers are encouraged to rely on words like “poetic” and “sublime,” which are fading words that pay lip...