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Good science fiction creates future worlds in order to discuss issues important to the present day. Remember Me, an action adventure game set in 2084 Paris, does just this by looking at class disparity through a setting where the rich enjoy access to memory manipulation technology and the poor live in slums haunted by the monstrous cast-offs of this uneven system. This story is the most successful...

Naughty Dog’s Great Experiment Kevin Smith—via Ben Affleck—once said in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, “You gotta’ do the safe picture. Then you can do the art picture.” Naughty Dog has made three safe and very profitable “pictures” with the Uncharted Series. Each title is a familiar, conventional, roller coaster ride that leaves players thrilled and at ease with the world and their place in it....

Porting console games onto handheld systems is pretty common, going all the way back to the Gameboy. But upgrading a handheld title to a console? That doesn’t happen every day. Yet, that’s what Capcom decided to do with Resident Evil: Revelations and it’s easy to see why. The title is easily one of the best to ever appear on the 3DS, pushing the graphics as far as that little...

EVE Online has somewhat of a reputation for being a cutthroat, unforgiving game. So is Dust 514, a first-person shooter running parallel to the EVE universe with cross-game interaction, financial consequences for death, a complicated levelling system, the ability to capture planets, manage inter-corporate wars and even influence the NPC factions. The whole thing seems inaccessible to anyone who hasn't played the game before. But is it? ...

Metro: Last Light was almost lost to gamers when THQ flashed a Game Over screen, but thankfully Deep Silver stepped up to make things right because it’s a bloody, terrifying and at times rather beautiful good time with a gun. The game finds a nice balance between stealth n’ machine gun FPS styles along with a spattering of surrealistic Silent Hill-style horror and a vividly unique world to create...

Return To Greenvale It’s been quite a ride for the developer known as “Swery65” and his cult hit, Deadly Premonition. What started as a way-too-obvious homage to Twin Peaks morphed into the game known as Red Seeds Profile in Japan and was finally released as an obscure 360 only title for Western shores back in 2010. That’s when the weirdness began. This is a game that, by...

Are You Ready For The Rad-ness? The typical kind of DLC gamers expect now is pretty pedestrian; some new skins for characters or weapons, or if you’re really lucky, a new, bite sized adventure that carries on the shenanigans of the core game that was originally purchased. Ubisoft however, have done something unusual; the latest add-on, downloadable content to last year’s Far Cry 3 has absolutely nothing...

There's a certain kind of party where before you've even managed to remove your jacket and shoes you're pretty sure you want to leave. A quick glance around the room and you notice that only one other person (who you don't even like) has shown up. There's no music on and the host is in a bad mood. You've come, though, and it would be...

The Indies Keep Coming Sony continues its mandate to bring unique, independent games to the PS3 and Vita (one of the reasons probably being the Vita is in dire need of titles) and Thomas Was Alone is the latest addition to the parade. Like quite a few of these indie titles, this isn’t actually a new game, having originally debuted last year on the PC and Mac....

Guacamelee — a game in which a Mexican wrestler can transform into a chicken to reach hidden areas, where he might learn from his mystical goat master how to suplex skeletons in sombreros. Sure, it may sound like someone drank too much tequila out in the hot sun, but it’s also one of the best indie experiences on your Playstation 3 or PS Vita. The creation of...

It’s pretty obvious just by reading the title that Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is meant to be played with a friend. You and your friend (or AI partner if you decide to go about this game alone) will work your way through each scenario, for the most part, together, and that’s the best part about this game. Playing with a friend is enjoyable; figuring out who is...

Poking The Beehive When Bioshock first landed on consoles many console veterans didn’t know what to expect. PC gamers, on the other hand, expected a dark, moody, atmospheric game that breathed life into its characters via audio recordings, and put players through a gaming experience by turns filled with unique mechanics and occasionally even threw out some scares. What no one expected was the level of uncompromising...

Going into Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, I had next to no experience with the franchise, aside from a couple brief matches with one of the earlier games in the Ultimate Ninja Storm series. I haven’t ever read the manga nor have I seen an episode of the anime. So I went into this game as a complete blank slate Naruto-wise, and that had me a little nervous....

  Revisiting The Rage The tale of Kratos came to a pretty definitive conclusion with God of War III, but naturally, with a series this successful, it’s hard for Sony to walk away. As a result, we once more travel to the past of the god/family/everyone else killer to get a little more insight into what drives a man to such extremes. Mind...

Now that it’s March once again, that means it’s time for yet another installment of Sony’s venerable baseball franchise, MLB The Show. When I reviewed last year’s installment, I waxed philosophic about how each installment of a sports franchise is scrutinized closely for being worth another investment, to justify its existence as more than just a series of updated rosters and players. MLB 12 was a fantastic game, which...

A Walk On The Pharmaceutical Side The Atelier series has always been more of a marginal franchise compared to the larger, more established JRPG properties like the mighty Final Fantasy or even Namco’s Tales series. Despite that smaller niche within a niche, Gust has managed to crank out 14 of these games since 1997, and the latest one, Atelier Ayesha carries on the tradition, albeit in a...

New Beginnings Reboots have been a pretty big thing in recent years. They have a singular purpose; taking an established property that is well known—and perhaps a tad too familiar to audiences by this point—and going back to the start. Reboots tinker with origins, change details and subsequently perceptions of the property, hopefully also changing the attitude of the audience, making a stale character seem new, fresh...

One of the prettiest shooter franchises in modern memory is back for another high jumping, car kicking, cloaking good time. Crysis 3 again has players nano-suiting it up as series protagonist "Prophet" returns to New York City 23 years after the events of Crysis 2. It's the city so nice the series has visited twice. This time around the bright lights of the city that never sleeps have been...

Is This Gonna’ Be A Stand Up Fight, Or A Bug Hunt? Few films have burned themselves into the delicate, collective pop culture consciousness of the 80s generation the way Aliens did. A blend of teasing, seductive science fiction, primal horror, and the kind of gun blazing action that only an 80s director would find plausible, it became the high watermark that every other SF/Action film would...

Sly Is HD AND New This Time Not too long ago, Sanzaru Games treated the gaming world to a pleasant surprise with the HD collection of the past Sly Cooper games. Once another mainstay of the PS2 era, this crime caper based, open world game was full of charm and fun, something that’s been in short supply in the current generation. It turns out that HD port...