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Posted By Eric Kelly On June 17, 2013 at 8:00 pm ADD COMMENTS

The Night of the Rabbit is the latest game from Daedalic Entertainment, developers of other point and click adventure games like the Deponia series. This title takes a more inclusive approach to its target audience. Can this point and click adventure be a good introduction to the genre for kids? It’s a good start.

Posted By Justin Lee On June 14, 2013 at 1:26 pm 2 COMMENTS

Following a viral outbreak, you find yourself in control of the main character Joel. 20 years later he’s a hardened smuggler one of the few survivors in a military quarantine zone. Not exactly the most upstanding citizen of this “new world”, but sometimes you just got to kill to survive when there are lack of [...]

Posted By Eric Kelly On June 6, 2013 at 3:58 pm ADD COMMENTS

Donkey Kong Country Returns was originally released on the Wii back in 2010, and was a fairly fun platformer. Years later today, Monster Games wanted to do a port of the game to the Nintendo 3DS for gamers to play on the go. Were their efforts successful? Read on to see where this barrel of [...]

Posted By Michael Leparc On June 5, 2013 at 11:22 am 1 COMMENT

Ever since Capcom decided to pass up the Vita in favor of the 3DS for its next release of the Japanese Action RPG megahit, Monster Hunter, people have been wondering how Sony would respond. And when Keiji Inafune, co-designer of Mega Man, left his position as Capcom’s Global Head of Production, many in the industry [...]

Posted By Eric Kelly On June 4, 2013 at 11:07 am ADD COMMENTS

A while back Capcom released an arcade game collection delivery system in a manner similar to the GameRoom for the Xbox 360. This collection however, would contain only Capcom arcade games, with a number of releases over the course of a month. The games could be purchased individually or in packs. This is one such [...]

Posted By Michael Leparc On May 28, 2013 at 11:41 am 1 COMMENT

Way back in 1998, well before Microsoft had any pretensions of invading your living room with a game console, their nascent Microsoft Games division put out a little something for PC called Motocross Madness. This was the second in a trio of “Madness” franchises in the late 90s (which also included Monster Truck and Midtown [...]

Posted By Daniel Grantham On May 24, 2013 at 1:00 pm 1 COMMENT

For those of us who were born in the 80′s, we were fed movies and games with outlandish plots that featured various versions of the future with cyborg police officers, laser guns, and bleak post-nuclear world wars. The only thing standing in between an entire army of baddies and the end of the world was [...]

Posted By Eric Kelly On May 17, 2013 at 11:30 am 1 COMMENT

It seems odd that a game based on the Star Trek reboot that has nothing to do with the movie that inspired it, was released years later, and had its release back to coincide with the sequel film. Star Trek by Namco Bandai Games most certainly boldly goes in a direction that one could expect [...]

Posted By David Klein On May 13, 2013 at 1:35 pm Comments Off

Mortal Kombat was an success story of 2011, relaunching the once tired series making it relevant once again. Shortly before this reboot the Mortal Kombat franchise experimented with making a crossover with the DC Universe that was met with some lukewarm reactions. Injustice: Gods Among Us is revisiting where Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe left [...]

Posted By Jeff Markiewicz On May 9, 2013 at 1:14 pm Comments Off

Army of Two is one of those franchises that when you heard announced was almost an eye-roller. It felt like the game was built upon a single idea pushed out of a corporate meeting but no one could claim the first title, released in 2008, was a bad game. It got decent reviews and EA [...]