Too Much Awesome

It might have been a good year for big budget titles but there’s a lot of fun to be had in the bowels of the Xbox 360 with Arcade and Indie games.

Was it a good year for the Xbox 360? Sure, why not? There might not have been many exclusive titles but there was plenty to play if you had the means and the money. I did not.

Orbitron Revolution is a recent indie game that puts a new spin on an old classic, but both games stand alone as awesome.

Well gang, I hate to admit it, but it’s spelled out in the skyward ceiling of the Grand Hall. The Legend of the legendary Harry Potter, a 20-year-long book series and a 10-year-long movie series that launched a pop culture phenomenon which now occupies roughly 9¾% of my childhood memories, has finally come to a [...]

Back in 2009, Rocksteady’s brilliant Arkham Asylum reinvigorated my devotion to the Dark Knight. Jump ahead a bit and here we are at 2011 with its sequel, Arkham City, and a whole new level of Batman to explore. I’ve played through at least half of the total game experience and have quite a bit to [...]

Everyone and their cousin Fred have weighed in on L.A. Noire, and I thought it best to give a more in-depth look at the game now that the smoke has cleared. You have probably heard the basic premise of Rockstar’s latest interactive movie-game: As L.A.P.D. detective Cole Phelps, you sleuth and gumshoe your way around [...]

It’s finally come to this. Over a decade later and the weight of this game’s release is too much for anyone to handle. Duke Nukem Forever was a joke that’d never die, and when we heard it was coming out of development hell during PAX Prime 2011, it seemed too good to be true. And [...]

It’s really difficult for me to get into the FPS genre. Most of this isn’t actually because I’m bad at First-Person Shooters though. I found a lot of enjoyment with Modern Warfare 2’s online mode, or more specifically I’ve learned that I function better on a team where different members are given different responsibilities, so [...]

The first Portal was a video game that no one expected. It was an entirely new thing that tried things that felt incredibly fresh within a genre that was becoming stale, namely, a first-person shooter experience that was about solving puzzles rather than killing everyone. Plus, the writing was placed above the usual writing you [...]

Even though I was the absolute perfect age when the first three Mortal Kombat games were released in arcades and on home consoles, I never really found myself getting into them beyond a few afternoons with friends or the occasional match at Wunderland. Therefore, when I learned that NetherRealm Studios was going to try yet [...]