Summary: A jRPG that jettisons swords and dragons to keep a fresher, more modern setting on board.

Setting: The fictional town of Inaba, Japan 2011.

Systems: PS2

Genre: RPG

Mood: To name only one would paint the game one-dimensionally. The mood can be bright, dark, tense, leisurely, humorous, or romantic.

Read the full review by Eric Venezia.

Summary: A broken FPS with an interesting premise, cool scripted scenes, and a so-bad-it’s-good story.

Setting: Mostly New York and London.

Systems: Xbox 360, PS3, PC.

Genre: FPS.

Mood: So cheesy, there’s less cheese in all of Switzerland.

Read the full review by Max Salnikov.

Chuckle at witticisms with Rafael Gamboa as he takes a look back at the game that served as the one shining beacon in the pathetic handful of titles that launched the PS3 several years back. Back then it looked like a killer shooter that was a complete marvel of graphical engineering. But how about now?

…or something to that effect.

In an effort to keep up with the ever-growing world of facebook, we’ve expanded beyond merely having our own fb group to now having a full-blown fan page on the social network site. You can find us here, so if you’re a facebook member, be sure to join our insanity over there, and spread the word to your friends. Leave some comments, share some pictures, tell video game related tales, or just hang out and stalk other people (isn’t that what social network sites are for, anyway?) - it’s entirely up to you.

As always, thanks for the support!

Summary: The new James Bond game for the PS2 works ok as a solid third person shooter, but unfortunately fails to go beyond average.

Setting: A few private estates, a burning hotel, an exotic Latin American country, a casino, several women’s beds - standard James Bond fare.

Systems: PS2 (reviewed), PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, DS

Genre: Third Person Shooter (rather than FPS with some third person thrown in that the other consoles feature).

Mood: I’ll use the word “James Bondian.” Screw you Miriam Webster!

Read the full review by Purpleblob.

Summary: A deeply immersive sci-fi survival horror game about kicking major undead arse in space. Dead space.

Setting: The USG Ishimura, a giant mining space vessel.

Systems: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3.

Genre: Survival Horror.

Mood: From-inside-the-coffin-dark.

Read the full review by Max.

Summary: Prince of Persia without a prince or time control powers… and I don’t think it’s ever officially confirmed to be Persia either.

Setting: Supposedly Persia; deserts and old palaces for the most part.

Systems: PS3(reviewed), Xbox 360

Genre: Action Adventure

Mood: Spectating. A good game to watch your friend play.

Read the full review by Ben.

Are you impressed by the great storytelling and new, fantastic ideas that have permeated the video game worlds in which we all love to spend so much of our time? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Merion is here to attempt to figure out where the crapstorm of bad video game writing originated and how it has progressed - for better and worse - over the last few years. Check out the article here.

Well looky here! We’ve got a review before a game’s actual release date, for a change! Goes to show you even us regular folk get lucky sometimes Read on to find out why Killzone 2 deserves to have your hard earned cash on the morrow.

Summary: If you don’t buy this game when it comes out then you suck.

Setting: Helghan, home of the Helghast forces and your inevitable death by their hand.

Systems: PS3

Genre: FPS

Mood: Oh, it’s just one big tea party really.

Read the full review by Brad.

Summary: A multiplayer game about shooting zombies in the face.

Setting: Zombie Apocalypse.

Systems: Xbox 360, PC

Genre: First Person Shooter

Mood: Dark, gritty, and with lots of claws and teeth.

Read the full review by Max.

.