XBLA Reviews

When 2k Games ceased publishing its 2K baseball series, Xbox owners were left without any alternative in the genre. MLB stepped in with its revival of R.B.I. Baseball to fill the void, but most were not charmed by the lackluster attempt at arcade-style nostalgia. And so Xbox-owning baseball gamers continued to wait. Now, Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings has stepped up to the plate, and the first pitch is on the way.

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In this very first chapter of King’s Quest, The Odd Gentlemen have delivered an old school adventure that works well as a single episode, but also sets the scene for the rest of the series very nicely indeed. Read More

Some games are highly revered, their creators lauded for their successes. Others are woefully panned and hated by the general audience. Others still exist merely to fade Read More

Uppercut Games has presented Submerged as an exploration game sans combat. You play as Miku, a young girl who must steer a small boat around a flooded post-apocalyptic city in …
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Magic: The Gathering has returned to Xbox for the sixth consecutive year in Magic Duels: Origins, but this time around, it’s free to play. Or is it?

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My, oh my, what a roller coaster Telltale’s Game of Thrones series is turning out to be. The story of House Forrester is in itself incredibly tumultuous, but beyond that, the wild swings in tempo and quality from one episode to the next are equally jarring.

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Elephants, as you may have noticed, are hulking, lumbering animals, so they’re probably not the first creatures that come to mind when you think of blazing speed. Luckily, side-scrolling platformers …
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So Many Me, so little time. It was me all along. There is no I in team, but there is me. Don’t worry, the me jokes will keep on coming. Read More

Twin-stick arena-based shooters are doomed to receive comparisons to Geometry Wars. Thankfully, Tachyon Project provides enough of a difference to be more than a simple clone game riding off its contemporary’s coattails.

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While I was growing up, I was a fan of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — it’s not easy to dialogue in third person convincingly. In my previews for Guncraft: Block and Loaded located here and here, Read More