Ukrainian outfit 4A Games’ Metro 2033, based on a Russian hybrid novel/underground Internet experiment of the same name, is Yakov Smirnoff’s answer to the Fallout series. According to Fallout, war never changes, but in Metro 2033’s post-apocalyptic Russia, war changes ...

Final Fantasy XIII follows the adventures of… actually, strike that. FFXIII’s core of senseless convolution makes an attempt at a proper summary nigh-impossible.

It seems that everything on the racks these days is a return of this, or the further adventures of that, or a requiem for some bozo you didn’t enjoy the first time around. Whatever happened to the original property? Are ...

Electronic Arts and Activision have throttled the golden geese, turning the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises into a twisted visage of the very thing they emulate. Like the rock star whose sudden rise precipitates an equally meteoric fall, these ...

Ego Draconis allegedly runs on the same engine that powered Fallout 3 and Oblivion, but I’m afraid to put that in print for fear of a libel suit from Bethesda. Divinity 2 is easily the buggiest game I’ve encountered in ...

Spirit Tracks’ misstep is perhaps an inevitable one. As time wears on, innovation becomes a scarce commodity. For the last decade or so, Zelda’s saving grace has been its ability, against all odds, to make visiting the same dungeons, collecting ...

New Super Mario Bros. was a hit on the DS, after all. In a perfect world, NSMB would be a one-off, a nice little respectful documentary meant to chronicle an era without resurrecting it. But not here, and not now. ...

Our critic picks the 10 best games of 2009.

It’s difficult to hyperbolize the sheer magnitude by which Assassin’s Creed II outshines its predecessor. My little brother likes to say that a game is only really good when, after its completion, he wishes that he had never played it ...

Dragon Age: Origins is Bioware’s attempt to take its ball and go home after losing out on developing Neverwinter Nights sequels for Atari. Bioware would like us to believe that it just happened to develop another medieval fantasy RPG in ...

Imagine being on the leading edge of a near-future gold rush—a race to stake your claim on what you’ve been told is an off-world utopia teeming with untapped resources and the promise of enough advanced alien technology to single-handedly allow ...

Brütal Legend is the story of Eddie Riggs, quintessential American roadie. A technical genius wrapped in a tough-as-nails exterior a generation out of style, Riggs disdains modern musicians for the liberties they’ve taken with the heavy metal of his youth. ...

The teaser adorning the back of the Scribblenauts box is taunting me. Four simple words, probably written by some marketing agent slaving away in the basement of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to entice a curious young target demographic into trying ...

A script by Batman: The Animated Series veteran Paul Dini and a stable of that show’s voice talent (Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker, among others) give Arkham Asylum a proven pedigree of Bat-talent that allows ...

Things have gotten militant on Mars since Volition’s 2001 release of Red Faction. The honeymoon between the titular Faction and their former Earth Defense Force allies ended approximately .003 seconds after Earth decided that Mars’ resources weren’t worth a chummy ...