Imagine the offspring of an NES-era Final Fantasy and Dig Dug and you’ve got a very basic idea of what’s going on with Terraria. Put another way, it’s a sidescrolling, action-centric version of first-person retro indie world-builder Minecraft.

Rarely does a game come along so bland, so uninspired, that it practically forces me to seek even the most boring of shelters from the storm of its banality, but Dungeon Siege III is exactly that game.

Surprisingly enough, Wii games exist. Modern ones, no less. You just don’t know about them, because they don’t make it here from Japan.

The biggest problem is the fact that anyone bothered to release Duke Nukem Forever at all.

Picking up 50 years after Guerrilla’s endgame, Armageddon introduces players to an entirely new face of Mars. Unfortunately, it’s the boring interior face, a monochromatic cave system that consists of one single continuous tunnel winding through the bowels of Mars ...

I keep turning over the question in my head: Why is the Rockstar/Team Bondi crime-drama collaboration L.A. Noire better than its contemporaries?

The game is, for better or for worse, a picture-perfect simulation of the iconic air-to-ground aircraft. Focusing on the intricate details of pilot aircraft management, it combines a complex physics model with a level of graphic detail that borders on ...

Between April 16-19, both Sony Online Entertainment and Sony’s PlayStation Network suffered sophisticated attacks that allowed intruders to gain access to sensitive account information from over 100 million user accounts.

Crysis 2 is a tour de force of insignificance, an A-list B-movie of a game that blasts dullness from both barrels.

While Nintendo’s more recent handheld innovations have been comparatively conservative, competitors’ products, also-rans all, have pushed even fewer boundaries. No surprise, then, that Nintendo would be the first company in 16 years to try something risky with a handheld.

Any honest description of the game will inevitably become a gaming Mad Lib with one sentence: “It does (that thing) from (previous game),” repeated infinitely.

For the uninitiated, Warhammer 40,000 is what happens when the races of a Tolkien-esque universe develop space-faring technology, only to find that space is teeming with Lovecraftian horrors that make Sauron look about as intimidating as a hobbit’s birthday party

Capcom’s Marvel vs. Capcom series of side-scrolling fighting games is a great example of both the ridiculous lengths to which games can go to entertain and the ridiculous lengths to which the industry can go to keep us from being ...

Let’s face it: Zombies as a pop-culture thing are kinda over. It’s hard to say which supernatural creature will fill the void, but like vampires, witches, demons, and vampires (again), it’s a pretty safe bet that the zombie ship has ...

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn has a lot going for it. It’s what the Japanese role-playing game crowd was clamoring for years ago but nobody knew how to properly make, a game as tight and complex as a SNES-era Final Fantasy ...