With the advent of Soul Blade on the PlayStation, fighting game enthusiasts everywhere knew they were in for something spectacular. From the way it moved so fluidly to the career-like mode where fighters were in pursuit of the legendary Soul Edge, it was a force to be reckoned with. Over the years, Soul Blade evolved into the highly-acclaimed Soulcalibur. This metamorphosis continually reached new heights with its innovative take on the fighting genre. The latest addition to the Soulcalibur series, Soulcalibur IV, takes all the best of the franchise and mixes it with aspects that have transformed the Soul series into the premiere fighting experience that it is today.
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Fable 2 is the sequel to the tremendously popular Xbox game of the same name, made by Lionhead Studios. Read the full story

Quick start-and-go games are definitely one of the DS’s fortes, and Crosswords DS is no exception.

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Resident Evil: Degeneration shares more in common with Final Fantasy VII Advent Children than just being feature-length, CG films based on popular videogames; they are both rather disappointing, canonical additions that could have been so much more. With Hollywood and German filmmakers consistently running game adaptations into the ground, it was up to the originators of these franchises to show the world how it’s done.
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Fallout 3 is the latest installment of the tremendously popular series of role-playing games previously published by Black Isle Studios. Read the full story

MKVDCU is a perfect example of why Midway is on the endangered publishers list. It takes a vaguely intriguing concept and executes it with such mediocrity that even the team behind the upcoming Chun-Li film would be ashamed. Then, to make matters worse, Midway attempts to take their notoriously M-rated series and water it down for a broader, more family-friendly audience. The gimmick of violence was all Mortal Kombat ever had going for it, and now the fatalities have been reduced to little more than Tom and Jerry drollery.
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With Killer Instinct and Goldeneye in legal limbo and Donkey Kong owned by Nintendo, Rare doesn’t have a lot of popular pre-existing franchises to fall back on for the 360. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is the struggling developer’s latest attempt to prove Peter Moore wrong and simultaneously fill a much-needed casual void in Microsoft’s game library.

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I used to be excited whenever a free game showed up in the mail. That all changed when EA started assaulting me with their line of For Dummies crapware. At this point, getting a package from UPS is like playing Russian roulette with a fully-loaded Lancer…by myself. So, it was with great relief that I found Mirror’s Edge on my porch earlier this week, a game I have been eagerly awaiting since first playing it earlier this year. Read the full story