The Walking Dead Developer: Telltale Games Price: $5 [per episode, $25 total] Platform: PC, PS3, & Xbox 360 If you’ve been living in some sort of ignorance all your life then I suppose I should tell you that Telltale Games focus on point/click adventure games, and they’re pretty damn good at their craft. After tackling...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is loooong. Purported to be a game of an extraordinary 200 hours in length and a blend of action and RPG, Amalur certainly seems to rival the likes of The Elder Scrolls at first glance; this shouldn’t be surprising, given support on the project from lead designer of Morrowind and Oblivion fame, Ken Rolston....

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare Developer: Radioactive Software Price: $10 Platform: PC So there’s a story in here, but you’ll only know about it if you read the manual. Basically the year is 2065 and the United States has been in some deep shit for a while. Their own Hadron Collider decides to explode and creates a wormhole...

Dungeon Defenders
Developer: Trendy Entertainment
Price: $14.99
Platform: PC, PS3, & Xbox 360

In similar fashion to Orcs Must Die (I’m only comparing since I played it recently) Dungeon Defenders introduces you to a gang of mischievous students who suddenly find themselves under attack by an endless army of your typical bad dudes who want to smash your crystal. While in Orcs Must Die your teacher was embarrassingly killed off, here your teachers have decided to just fuck off and leave a few kids in charge of a giant castle. (more…)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Developer: Bethesda
Price: $60.00
Platform: PC, PS3, & Xbox 360

Skyrim is a slow game. It rewards curiosity and exploration with valuable enchanted weapons/armor or with a quest that will have you starting out in a drinking game at the local inn, then waking up halfway across Skyrim and having to retrace your steps in similar fashion to the movie The Hangover. Players who simply speed though the main story and call it a day simply aren’t getting the full enjoyment you’re supposed to out of an Elder Scrolls game. When I noticed I had clocked in 35 hours into the game in just 3 or 4 days I had realized that I hadn’t even finished a quarter of the main story quests (more…)

Battlefield 3
Developer: DICE
Price: $59.99
Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox360 (Reviewed)

There has been a lot of loud trumpeting about the superiority of FPS’ this year and it’s easy to see why with so many hitting shelves this holiday season. Battlefield 3 is Electronic Arts’ golden boy entry into the fray who has had much resting on its shoulders. With the addition of single-player and coop campaigns as well as a brand new engine, Frostbyte 2, DICE and EA look to champion the market this holiday season. Does the latest iteration of the Battlefield franchise have what it takes to beat out the best? Or are there crosshairs already focused on this latest FPS? (more…)

RAGE
Developer: id Software
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [reviewed]
Price: $59.99

id Software is well known for the Doom and Quake series, but they have not developed a big budget title since Doom 3. It’s safe to say that id Software came back strong with a new I.P. and hopefully a franchise that will stay with us for a while. RAGE is id’s first appearance in the open world genre, but does RAGE have what it takes to pull gamers into a new franchise? (more…)

Dead Island Review
Developer: Techland
Released: September 6, 2011
Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox360 (Reviewed)
Price: $59.99

Leaving many people captivated by its award-winning trailer earlier this year, Dead Island immediately had a lot to live up to. The sullen piano theme and tragic tale of a family besieged by zombies in slow motion painted the picture of a melancholy survival game like no other. As previews began to emerge, however, the game didn’t seem quite what the trailer promised it to be. Does Dead Island measure up to the experience it conveys or is it destined to walk among the dead? Read on to find out. (more…)