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Chances are you already know if you want this third installment of the Tales of Monkey Island story, so I wont take up much of your time. If you haven’t checked out the first two chapters yet, you can scope my recent review. If you have played the first two, then you already know pretty […] Add comment
One of the first truly appealing DSi-exclusive titles is the DSiWare release of Dragon Quest Wars. Players build small armies of Dragon Quest monsters, and battle it out on a tactical grid. The game has several battle modes including an interesting “survival mode” in which the player must set out all of their monster’s moves before […] Add comment
First up: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up will be out for the Wii and PS2 this week. Parts of the team that brought us Super Smash Bros. Brawl worked on this title which touts itself as the first TMNT title not to be directly tied in with a particular movie or series. Choose your Turtles […] Add comment
The second game in the Majesty franchise, Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a huge improvement over the original title, and not just in the ways you would expect from a new version (like better graphics). The team at Paradox has really punched it up in several ways. The first Majesty was a bit […] Add comment
The Sequel to Majesty comes out for the PC this week. Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is very much like Majesty, but with better graphics, and a few new features. This RTS has the player building hero’s guilds, hiring heroes then getting them trained and equipped to fight the baddies. The economy of the […] Add comment
In the cross platform release Darkest of Days, the player will jump around in time, mostly in the front lines of World War I and The American Civil War, fighting for each side with period weapons and uniforms. Expect beautiful scenery and authentic tactics in this Historical FPS. Check out Icrontic’s review of the game […] Add comment
For the PC this week, we get the unique AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. BASE Jumping Sim is not a common genre; so uncommon, in fact, that I have no real basis of comparison here. How does it work? Jump off of buildings and stuff in first person. Try to keep from opening your […] Add comment
Out on the PC is Time of Shadows. This is the sequel to Dawn of Magic, which most of you likely haven’t heard of considering its limited release (UK only). It’s a hack-and-slash dungeon crawl with all the typical trappings: several classes to choose from, lots of skills and spells, and large world to explore. […] Add comment
Tales of Monkey Island is a point-and-click style adventure game with classic humor and some serious nostalgic appeal. After the success of the new Sam & Max Season One, we’re seeing several new adventure games being broken into episodes including a second season of Sam & Max. I have an affinity for this type of […] Add comment
This week on the DS we find Sideswiped, a Burnout-esque game of racing and crashing. Choose from a wide selection of vehicles, and cause as much damage as you can in several game modes. You can race for best time, if you really want, but the modes you’ll really want to play are Crash Race […] Add comment
Darkest of Days is a new First-Person Shooter from 8monkey Labs. It has some real nice polish on it, and the story grabs you right from the start. The game drops the player in the middle of Custer’s battle at Little Bighorn, taking on the role of Alexander Morris, one of history’s MIA soldiers. Just […] Add comment
From your WiiWare channel this week, you can pick up NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, a two-player platformer set in ancient Greece. One player takes on the role of Nyx, a winged girl who is searching for her lost friend Icarus. The other player is the wielder of the forces of Mt. Olympus; appearing on screen only […] Add comment
First up we have the cross platform release, G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra. This movie tie-in will pick up the G.I. Joe story where the new movie leaves off. Engage in tactical combat thorough the G.I Joe story universe. Pick your team, outfit them with futuristic weaponry, and take on the forces of Cobra. […] Add comment
Ubisoft just sent out this video of highlights from the Assassin’s Creed 2 panel at Comic-Con. They show off some features here that they didn’t cover at E3. You can ignore Ubisoft’s pretend newscaster. Add comment
Available for download this week, we find Fat Princess for PS3. This wacky take on capture the flag pits teams of up to 16 players against each other online in a class-based battle to rescue their princess from the opposite tower. The princess has become fat in her captivity however, and it will require the […] Add comment
Bruckheimer makes a 3D movie, but now they’ve got all these guinea pig models sitting around not doing anything, so I guess it’s time for G-Force: The Video Game. In this gadget-centric third-person adventure game, evil household appliances are trying to take over the world, and Darwin of G-Force and his companion Mooch the housefly […] Add comment
On WiiWare this week Ant Nation will be available for download. This game has players manage and experiment with an ant colony, a la SimAnt. Fight spiders, avoid bug spray, make the ants happy, and build them a home. Afterward you can kill all your new friends with hammers and magnifying glasses. The companion version […] Add comment
In Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled, players will find themselves in a classic RPG setting and plot that hearkens back to days of 8-bit yore. Guide your hero from city to dungeon to city, picking up new characters, and assembling a three-person team of skilled fighters while locating cool new items, and slowly revealing […] Add comment
Here are this week’s announced releases, none of which are worth featuring: PS3 The Bigs 2 CID The Dummy (PS2) PSP CID The Dummy The Bigs 2 Wii CID The Dummy The Bigs 2 BIT.TRIP CORE (WiiWare) Heracles Chariot Racing (WiiWare) Tales of Monkey Island (WiiWare) California Games (VC – C64) DS Art Style: BASE […] Add comment
In Trine, the player takes on the role of three fantasy stereotypes who have become trapped in an ancient artifact called the Trine. Presented with 2-dimensional platformer challenges, one must choose which character to pull from the Trine at each moment, each one with a different way of dealing with situations (sort of like a […] Add comment
During E3, we gave you a heads up about Divinity II, and told you to keep an eye on it. While its release date is still not anounced beyond “coming 2009”, it looks to be coming along nicely. Hopefully, we’ll have a review of it for you soon, but in the mean time, the official […] Add comment
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