About two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to take part in a conference call with a producer of 2K Sports as well as cover athlete and former Ohio State All-American center, Greg Oden. The call got me very excited because of a few questions answered during t...

It's been two decades since Contra and the Konami's code was permanently etched in to the mind's of a generation of gamers, who loved Contra's gameplay, but who could not handle the difficulty. Contra 4, the 20th Anniversary Edition, maintains the same cl...

I was a big fan of the original Sonic, but haven't played so many of the recent ones, so I didn't fully know what to expect.Sonic Rivals 2 is a sequel to Sonic Rivals, featuring the same classic 2.5-D action the series is known for. Actually, aside from g...

Hopefully you got a chance to check out my Soldier of Fortune: Payback developer interview earlier this week (see our previous coverage). The interview got me really excited for this game. And while I was familiar with the series from playing Soldier of F...

I was excited for Assassin's Creed since I first heard about it, but I was worried the game would not live up to the expectations. I thought its E3 showing was a bad sign for what was to come. Well, you know what they say: worry is like a rocking chair; i...

I got a chance to check out Blacksite: Area 51 back in September (see our hands-on preview). I felt the game showed some promise at the time, but it was definitely missing something. Was the game able to rise to meet my expectations in the three months si...

Guitar Hero III was an instant-hit before it came out. The buzz has been absolutely electric, but does GH III push the same old, same old or does it reinvent itself?

Call of Duty 4 moves past the ditches of World War II and into modern warfare. The game promises to be one of the strongest titles this holiday season, and I was eager to see if it could live up to the mountains of hype.Visually, CoD 4 is a cut above CoD...

Dance Dance Revolution: SuperNOVA 2 is the sequel to the highest-selling Dance Dance Revolution title. Though it replaces SuperNOVA's "Stellar Mode" needed to unlock songs and still carries the exercise mode, SuperNOVA 2 doesn't bring the dance-able songs...

The visuals are stunning, the sound captivating, and the gameplay one-of-a-kind. And yet TimeShift seems to be an afterthought in the season of big-time first person shooters.I know there's some point where money runs out, and Bioshock (see our review), H...