Terraria By Re-Logic Genre: 2D sandbox action-adventure-puzzler-RPG? Not rated, but if it were it’d probably be E10+. Terraria is an extremely addictive sandbox game that supports co-op, and you will need your friends for this. You make your character from quite a few presets of color and basic look; you create a randomly-generated world, small,…
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings By CD Projekt RED Genre: RPG Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of books about the professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, have yielded two games for the PC thus far. The first…
Bulletstorm By Epic Games and People Can Fly Genre: First-person shooter Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol Kill with Skill! That’s always been a tenet of most first-person shooters. But here, it’s the main idea of the game! In Bulletstorm, you play Grayson Hunt,…
Red Faction: Armageddon By THQ and Volition Games Genre: Third-person shooter Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence The Red Faction series has long been a staple of the shooter genre, featuring revolutionary (at the time) destructible terrain ever since its first release as a first-person shooter back in 2001. Its second outing…
One of my great loves, as you may well know from my other articles, is the puzzle genre of games. These are for when you just need to kick back and enjoy solving problems at your own pace. Sure, there’s something to be said for fast-paced action and drama, but you can’t beat a refined,…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator and a founder of the studio, Studio Ghibli, known for making films that appeal to young and old. Through the friendship and work of fellow director John Lasseter, known for his work at Pixar, Miyazaki’s films have received star-studded dubs (translations) and imports into the United States, for enjoyment…
Syberia By Microids Genre: Old-school graphical adventure! Rating: Teen for Mild Language, Use of Alcohol (second only has Mild Language) A rather odd story, but still an endearing one, as well as beautiful pre-rendered art and suitably epic music surrounds this grand adventure written by Belgian comic author Benoit Sokal, the first installment of which…
Tim Ajmani The Corsair I was one of those people before the NBA season began that said a “Big 3” in Miami was bad for the league as a whole. Well, almost one year later, and I have to say that I was dead wrong about that. The NBA probably just had its most successful…
Alice: Madness Returns By EA and Spicy Horse Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence Back in 2000, a video game designer named American McGee released his take on a possible sequel to the classic Victorian-era books by Lewis Carroll, known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through…
Duke Nukem Forever By Gearbox Software and 2K Games Genre: First-person shooter Players: 1, or up to 8 in multiplayer Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol The King is back; does he still reign? Spouting one-liners, kicking alien rear and…