• Sonic 3D Blast (SG)

    Considered a spin-off to this well-known series, Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (as it's known in PAL territories) is not actually a three-dimensional game. Not in the way it's played, nor in its content;

  • Echoes of Sorrow (PC)

    I first played Echoes of Sorrow while I was in the midst of the "hidden object game" craze that took over my life for about two months earlier this year (see this month's "Gamer Girlfriend" for more o

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    What the Crap?: Difficulty Settings and Modes

    Why, cruel videogame industry, are we forced to play Goldilocks when sitting down to play our games? Games all have their own ideas of what Easy and Hard mean, have different rewards (and sometime none at all) for choosing a more difficult setting, and really produce a schism in groups of people who say they've beaten a game. I really don't care if you've beaten the game on "Super Easy," you shmuck!

  • Brink: Apparently Not a Racing Game

    This game called Brink is coming out this week. I don't know anything about Brink. I was avoiding all news posts about Brink, because I thought it was some kind of racing game that offers "high-octane

  • Comix Zone (XBLA)

    We recently took a look at Comic Jumper, a game that has you jumping across comic book frames and defeating enemies. Comic Jumper and the recently released Unbound Saga owe a wealth of their ideas to

  • Quantum Geek: Episode 23 – The Calm Before the (Psionic) Storm

    While Tom, Alli, and Emmi were preparing for their battle, Rick was preparing for his. He knew the attack could come at any time; and when it began he knew he would have to closely monitor the system for his chance to strike.

  • Gamer Girlfriend: The Curse of the Hidden Object Games

    I recently came to the end of what turned out to be an extremely counterproductive, fairly expensive, and slightly embarrassing pastime. It all started shortly after I quit my job in December to becom

  • [NSFW] Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PC)

    Even delicious violence can become moreish and sickening. Gore-feast Kane Lynch 2: Dog Days suits this category the same way the perfect cup of coffee suits Dale Cooper. Being brutally visceral and d

  • [NSFW] Pokémon: The Musical

    The only way this could possibly be funnier is if I understood any of the references.

  • Square Enix is Definitely Prepping for Chrono Trigger 2

    How else can you explain this? A few weeks ago, it came out (via the ESRB) that Square is looking at a PlayStation 3 and PSP release for Chrono Trigger; and yesterday (also via the ESRB), we learned that Chrono Trigger is coming to the Wii's Virtual Console, as well.