Crash Bandicoot has been around dating back to the Playstation 1 era and since then has become an annual franchise for Activision. This year’s adventure is sub titled “Mind Over Mutant” and Crash is once again trying to stop Cortex from taking over the world. This time around Cortex has developed a mind control device…
Dead Space starts you out with a beautiful opening cinematic of you approaching the USG Ishimura. Initially you think that you are simply going to the Ishimura to fix a communications problem. However, when you get there you quickly discover a horrific scene. There don’t appear to be any survivors from the rather large crew…
The Brothers In Arms series has finally made its way on to the current generation of consoles with Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway. Much like the previous iterations of the series this title is also set in World War 2. For those unfamiliar with the series Brothers In Arms is a tactical first person shooter.…
Pure is an off road arcadey racing title that is part racing, part stunts, part mechanic and part rpg. As soon as you put the disc in for the first time you are greeted with a short demo to introduce you to the basics of the game. Once you have completed the brief tutorial you…
It has been a long time coming but Square Enix has finally given Xbox360 gamers a role playing game that everyone can enjoy. Not only that but Infinite Undiscovery is an Xbox360 exclusive, so if you want to try the game out you need to have Microsoft’s latest console. You begin your journey as Capell,…
Going into TNA Impact I had high hopes this title would revitalize what has otherwise become a stagnant genre the past few years. The past few WWE titles have suffered from the Madden syndrome in that you could only really consider each year’s version an incremental increase. All the signs leading up to Impact’s release…
Madden 09 is one of those annual franchises where no one really knows if it will be good or not. Since EA Sports acquired the exclusive NFL license a few years back one could argue that the Madden team has been complacent in the absence of 2K Sports. Well, this year the Madden franchise turns…
Most gamers who grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System are familiar with the classic title Bionic Commando. After approximately twenty years Capcom has decided to update this title and put it on Microsoft’s burgeoning Live Arcade service. As soon as you start playing this game you will immediately feel at home as Capcom has…
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled their “Summer of Arcade” lineup for the month of August with some high profile titles that people have been waiting to play. One of the titles in that list, Braid, was released last week. Braid is one of those titles where you don’t really know what to expect…
When the Xbox 360 launched back in 2005, Geometry Wars was the breakout hit of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. Priced at just 400 Microsoft points there were a lot of people who got addicted to it in addition to the title launching the twin stick shooter genre into the spotlight. Well, almost three years later,…
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