Throw Goo At Bombs In This Experimental Playground   The Splatters is a puzzle game where you throw colored goo at bombs. Soaking the bombs in the splattered goo causes them to explode. Destroying all the bombs completes the level. It sounds simple, but as any good puzzle game demonstrates, it’s... 

Tags: action, confetti carnival, Review, spiky snail, the splatters, xbox 360

CD Projekt RED has no problem translating this PC adventure successfully to console.   The Xbox 360 doesn’t really have a shortage of good adventure games right now. Aside from the Fable games and the “FUS RO DAH”-ness of Skyrim, you’ve also got Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, 38 Studios’... 

One of the best rides you’ll take all year. Who says you can’t find success in downloadable games? RedLynx released Trials HD a few years back as part of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade program. The challenging yet entertaining racer has turned out to be a huge seller, with two million units downloaded... 

Bipedal Tanks Walk Around And Shoot Things In New Trailer This new Steel Battalion trailer succeeds in two things: Showing off the legged tanks’ walking animations and sheer firepower. Glimpses at dramatic life inside the cockpit can be caught between firefights. We see soldiers loading shells,... 

Tags: action, capcom, preview, steel battalion: heavy armor, xbox 360

Sweet And Sour Elements Abound I initially had very little confidence in World Gone Sour. After all, what’s to separate it from previous crap advergames like Doritos: Crash Course and Yaris? For one, this costs $5 to play, unlike other free offerings. The price tag isn’t necessarily unwarranted;... 

Tags: capcom, impulse, platforming, playbrains, PlayStation 3, Review, sour patch kids, world gone sour, xbox 360

Spiritual Successor To Fatal Frame Horrifies For All The Wrong Reasons The Fatal Frame series has always been about battling ghosts with your camera, so when Tecmo Koei decided to use the real cameras on the 3DS to fight virtual ghosts, it sounded like a great match. After putting up with Spirit Camera’s... 

Tags: 3ds, action, nintendo, Review, spirit camera, spirit camera: the cursed memoir, tecmo koei

Here’s Hoping Each Word In The Title Adds Depth There have been many Naruto games before, but Generations boasts both the rosters of young Naruto and friends, and the older Shippuden variety. Each character has a familiar list of moves and Chakras – from the silent and grim to the appropriately... 

Tags: fighting, naruto shippuden: ultimate ninja storm generations, PlayStation 3, Review

Change Your Perspective Take two small objects and hold them out in either hand directly in front of your left and right eyes. Now move them both to the center point between your two eyes, like both objects are rotating a quarter turn around an invisible center axis. In your perception, those two objects... 

Tags: fez, impulse, microsoft, polytron, puzzle, Review, xbla, xbox 360, xbox live arcade

The Gran Turismo Of World War II Flight Sims Birds of Steel was built for people interested in the history of aviation during World War II. That isn’t to say that more casual flight enthusiasts won’t have fun; my expertise stops at knowing planes need two wings to function correctly, and I was entertained. Unlike... 

Tags: action, aviation, birds of steel, gaijin, history, konami, Review, workd war ii, world war 2, xbox 360

A Fun Shooting Gallery That Lacks Depth In Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, the only way to unlock an additional playable character is to drive to a store and purchase a new action figure. Since retailers cannot keep these figures in stock, adding new members to your team is the most difficult challenge... 

Tags: action, ios, Review, skylanders: cloud patrol

Skullgirls Review: Fighting For Everyone Consoles have been treated to a revival of the fighting genre ever since Street Fighter IV’s release in 2009, but no notable new entries have made their way to the downloadable arena. Reverge Labs is finally delivering this with Skullgirls, a game that feels... 

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The Force Is Broken gnore my abysmal rating for one second. I had a good time playing Kinect Star Wars. More accurately, I laughed all the way through it, and most of the people who jumped in to play cooperatively with me left with smiles on their faces. Some of the comedy is intentional, mostly delivered... 

Tags: action, kinect star wars, lucasarts, Review, terminal reality, xbox 360

Game of Thrones finds some focus and clarity in a mostly-great second episode. Man, I love it when my concerns about a show are addressed in the very next episode.  After last weeks overstuffed premier, ‘The North Remembers,’ I was worried that every episode this season was going to have that full-to-brimming... 

If you need proof that the Japanese RPG is struggling from the North American perspective, you need only look at the story behind Xenoblade Chronicles. Somehow, despite early showings at E3 and rave reviews in Japan and Europe, Nintendo of America very nearly didn’t bring the game to our shores. If... 

This isn’t the hardcore Star Wars Kinect game you’re looking for Kinect: Star Wars is finally here. Rewind back a bit to E3 two years ago when it was first unveiled as more of a tech demo and how awesome it looked. Using the force to push back stormtroopers, clashing lightsabers in battle...