Halo 3: ODST was a side project developed by the Bungie community to give more insight on soldiers under the UNSC. These Orbital Drop Shock Troopers had a small part in Halo 2, but that was where their involvement ended. This game gives players a chance to be an ODST instead of a supersoldier, like [...]
In recent years, Electronic Arts has consistently published high-quality and well-designed games that have crossed genres and broken boundaries because of their accessibility. Their bread-and-butter staple series of franchise sports games set the bar early for the way they build intuitive interfaces for the dedicated followers who keep them in business. Spreading this formula into [...]
Dreamkiller is a new PC/Xbox 360 game currently in development by Mindware Studios, the creators of the popular first-person shooter Painkiller. Not ringing a bell? That’s understandable. When Painkiller was released five or so years ago, it mostly served as a very well produced throwback to classic shooting games like Quake and Doom. As you [...]
As fans of the franchise will be happy to know, the popular World War II team-based shooter series shall soon return with Battlefield 1943. It’s with this installment that the Battlefield series will return to it’s roots for the first time in years. Thankfully, the franchise has experienced quite a few refinements since then, so [...]
No, it’s not what you think. It’s not a recent cash-in attempt. Star Trek Online has been around for a long time, originally developed by Perpetual Entertainment for a total of four years, but handed over to Cryptic Studios when the company filed for bankruptcy. It’s just that after the amazing success of the new [...]
Yes, yes, another Need For Speed. But trust me when I say that this one looks very different from the rest. A big part of that is undoubtedly due to the fact that the studio has dedicated themselves to making Shift a game that they believe will please both fans of realistic racers like Gran [...]
Many have described the racing Split/Second as Black Rock Studios’ big follow-up to Pure; an intense off-road racer that proved to be one of the year 2008′s biggest driving games. Split/Second takes things to a bit of a more sophisticated level, as the gameplay revolves around the fact that you are participating in a reality [...]
As any PC gamer will tell you, Left 4 Dead was one of 2008′s biggest games. Consequentially, Left 4 Dead 2 was one of the biggest games at this year’s E3. What is it, exactly? Well, it’s essentially a multiplayer focused first-person shooter, action game, involving guns, chainsaws, and zombies. A lot of zombies! GameFly™ [...]
In 2007, publishing company Activision released a game developed by Traveller’s Tales, called Transformers: The Game. The game was based on the upcoming movie, Transformers, and like most movie license games it was rushed, shallow, and over far too quickly. So, this time around Activision has taken a different approach and handed the project over [...]
