Reviews

Path of Exile: The game Diablo 2 & 3 should have been

There's no polite way to frame this, so here it goes: in all likelihood, Diablo 3 is going to be a huge disappointment. The character...

Once more, with feeling: Mass Effect 3 review

No game series, to my knowledge, has accomplished what Bioware set out to do with Mass Effect. Yes, good/evil decision trees have existed in games...

Mass Sarcasm: The ultimate ME3 demo impressions

While the Mass Effect 3 release date has been known for some time now, it's only been this week that Bioware has seen...

No arms to hug you with: A Katawa Shoujo Review

Katawa Shoujo, literally meaning "disability girls" in Japanese, is a dating sim where you have a choice of five girls, each with different disabilities. For...

Blacklight Retribution: A mix that might work

Having played the closed beta for a couple hours, I'm by no means an expert on the topic of Blacklight Retribution, or any...

Soul Calibur 5 Review: Namco’s Third Strike

Shortly after I purchased Soul Calibur 5, my brother sent me a private message over Xbox Live: "Is it bad?" The underlying idea was so...

You’ll never buy another mouse after the Logitech G500

There are plenty of naysayers of dedicated gaming peripherals – we’ll call them anti-performers– who decry $80 mice as a waste of money that...

Why don’t people play arena shooters any more?

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine was telling me how he had recently bought a copy of Unreal Tournament 3 and...

I like Modern Warfare 3 and I’m not sorry

My esteemed comrade Rabid Ferret has already written a review of Modern Warfare 3 for this site, and while I completely...

Completely unbiased Modern Warfare 3 overview

I'm going to skip the obvious jokes and foreplay: this is pretty much a minorly tweaked version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...