Sleeping Dogs Review

Sleeping Dogs Review

Irrefutably, Sleeping Dogs is a tale of vengeance. On one level, the game’s protagonist- undercover officer Wei Shen, retaliates against a multitude of treacherous types, impaling foes on stacks of swordfish and pressing the faces of antagonists into a whirling air-conditioning fans. Alternatively, the title also symbolizes a pleasing payback for United Front Games (ModNation [...]

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suffer from the malaise of homogeneity.  Employing traditional run and gun conventions, the genre habitually delivers faint variations on a theme instead of offering comprehensive innovation. Developer 5th Cell (Lock’s Quest, Scribblenauts) hopes to remedy shooter stagnancy with Hybrid, a downloadable Xbox 360 title which offers [...]

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Console

Darksiders II Review

In the game industry, it’s an abnormality for an untested development team to deliver an inaugural hit, and an irrefutable miracle if they are able to sustain that success. As Realtime Worlds demonstrated with 2007’s Crackdown and Team Bondi with 2011’s L.A. Noire, even a marvelous maiden title is no guarantee for future fruition; both [...]
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Portable

Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time Review

It’s a known fact: fans of Japanese role-playing games rarely arrive at a consensus. Whether it’s a disagreement over how combat should be articulated, the delicate balance of grinding, or even if amnesia still retains merit as a plot device, the genre contains few instance of accord. Yet, even a cursory overview of internet message [...]
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Podcast

Podcast 11-3: Electricity Made Me Do it

This week on the Tech-Gaming podcast: SeanNOLA experiences the potential revival of arcades, DesertEagle ponders some of the approaches of game journalism, and Jeremy articulates the virtues of the 4X genre. Beyond offering impressions of Mugen Souls, Sound Shapes, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, and [...]

New Releases

New Releases for the Week of August 19th, 2012

Buried amidst this week’s sturdy selection of new releases is a remarkable harbinger: non-mainstream titles aren’t evaporating, they’re merely going digital. From NISA’s Legasista to XSEED’s Way of the Samuari 4 and possibly even Capcom’s reinvigoration of a twelve-year old Dreamcast fighter, a growing number of downloads seem geared toward smaller audiences. The notable exception [...]