Tricky review to write, this one! Tricky review indeed. You see Battlefield 3 is really two separate games fighting for attention in the same package. One of them (and arguably the one that most of the series’ core fanbase are interested in) is very, very good indeed. The other, despite looking very pretty and seeming to have the best of intentions, is a formulaic, often-shambolic mess of a thing, which stumbles into the territory of the downright broken at times. [...]

If you’ve been remotely cognizant during the last few years, you’ve at least heard of the popular Tower Defense style of games (Pixel Junk Monsters, Plants vs Zombies, etcetera). If you’re the type to apply labels to things, you could very accurately label Orcs Must Die a Tower Defense game as well.

With meteoric impact imminent, civilization rushes to save its greatest members before oncoming annihilation at the hands of an asteroid known as Apophis. It’s common knowledge that the majority of Earth’s population will not survive, but the hope is that some can be saved. Using mechanical wonders known as arks, the chosen are frozen and buried underground, destined to awake one day to re-establish the human race. This is the endangered world of 2029, which players catch a fleeting glimpse [...]

I never personally got around to even play any of the Deus Ex games in the past, and being a first-person shooter guy in many respects (plus a role-playing gamer as well) led me to give the series’ latest entry a spin on my 360 for awhile.  Now that I have, though, all I can say is that Square Enix and the guys at Eidos Montreal deserve a hefty load of respect for turning out a pleasing FPS-plus-role-player experience that’s [...]

I hate it when things don’t go according to plan. My feelings towards Frozen Synapse are similar to that of when you plan to hang out with someone and one hour before they say, “Nah, can’t do it today.” Playing Frozen Synapse gives you that same feeling except with guns and neon colors.