Sony's PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter arrives, armed with spectacular good looks, shrewd campaign AI, and a mutating online multiplayer angle.

Nothing's perfect, and in this case it's the friendly AI that's suffers. Despite promises that your squad mates will stay out of your way, they don't, occasionally wandering into your line of fire. That's bad enough, but then they chastise you for it. ...

Growing up, I was obsessed with Lego blocks. I'd spend hours pouring over the tiny brightly colored bricks. I also loved the...

Don't let the franchise name deter you--Lego Indiana Jones is a solid platformer, a humorous ride, and a satirical look at one of films' great franchises at the same time. The pathfinding, respawn, and aiming issues can be irritating, but they shouldn ...

World of Goo is a trippy puzzle game that pushes your knowledge of physics to its gooey limits in a post-modernistic setting...

World of Goo is a quirky and challenging puzzle game. The lackluster multiplayer and incoherent narrative may turn off some players, but others will find the challenging game play and unique aesthetic compelling. Though the later puzzles can be too ...

ToCA Race Driver 3 lets you race in virtually every professional racing circuit in the history of the sport with unrivaled...

Deep and varied races make ToCA Race Driver 3 a compelling game for any fan of racing. While it's a pain to have to race in a championship series you don't care about in order to unlock ones you do, it's what makes the game challenging and its fun to ...

Battlestations Midway is a World War II simulator that offers unbridled scale of the Pacific Theater. From Pearl Harbor to the...

It's ambitious to allow players such a scope and level of control of a theater of war. Battlestations Midway makes good on its promise to let you take control of a variety of historically accurate vehicles. In the course of the US campaign, you'll ...

The sequel to 2006's Gears of War for the Xbox 360 offers a harrowing, ultimately satisfying campaign along with several thrilling new multiplayer modes.

The most helpful new weapon, especially towards the end, is probably the boomshield, which you hold in your left hand while wielding a pistol in the other. Employing the shield acts like cover, but lets you advance slowly forward, allowing bold angles ...

If you want to enjoy the best bits of Bethesda's dazzlingly desolate Fallout 3, just resign yourself to not quite finishing it.

Did I mention the kid in the cave who wants boxes of Sugar Bombs? The guy who wants me to detonate a nuke? Someone's telling me to check the Potomac, that there's a scribe paying dearly for vintage books. And last I heard, there's a society of ghouls ...

Senior associate editor Danny Allen gets his hands on Rockband 2 and decides it's time to get the band back together again!

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Two decades of Madden are nipped, tucked, and stitched into the finest version ever of this venerated franchise.

Madden NFL 09 is not a revolution in football gaming. It doesn't deliver the best conceivable rendering of hulking frames lugging a rawhide-laced pigskin up and down a floodlit or sunlit field (though it is as close as you'll get outside a pro jersey ...

At $130 with a two-year contract, the Instinct is a good handset and a great deal. But this iPhone look-alike is unlikely to slay Apple's upcoming 3G handset.

Strong design, narrow shape, Attractive pricing

Short battery life, Web browser is less elegant than the iPhone's

Samsung did a solid job on the Instinct; you have to admire the extensive feature list you get for the price. But with iPhone prices about to tumble even as Apple's hardware improves, the Instinct doesn't shape up as an iPhone killer