Archive for July 2011

I’m going to start this review off with a full disclosure: I’m a diehard, unashamed fanboy of everything related to Twisted Pixel. Since playing their first title, The Maw, when it first came out on XBLA, I’ve been absolutely hooked to every game they have subsequently released. They also rock the positively best beards in [...]

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The human psyche is amazingly complex, and one of its many facets is that we, by nature, have to compare things.  We feel the need to put everything inside of a box and to try to label it, even if it probably isn’t very logical to do so.  By comparing things to one another, it [...]

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We have some very exciting news to share if you have a special place in your heart for JNCO jeans and chain wallets.  P.O.D., who was probably a staple of your adolescent musical rotation, is making their sophomoric appearance into the Rock Band catalog.  Following up on the June 2010 release of “Alive”, next week [...]

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Detective Cole Phelps certainly has a nose for sniffing out trouble.  He’s single-handedly put the kibosh on vehicular homicide cases to arsonists, and seemingly everything in between.  However, in the upcoming fourth L.A. Noire DLC case, “Reefer Madness”, Cole has some new culprits to put behind bars (or in graves).  “Reefer Madness” focuses on Phelps’ [...]

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Every now and then, an email will hit our inbox that makes us utter this terrible, gutteral sound: “WhaaaaaaaaCOOOOOOOL!”.  Zen Studios was the latest instigator of this soon-to-be trademarked noise with the news of their next pinball table being built around the theme of Twisted Pixel’s Ms. Splosion Man. It’s no doubt that these are [...]

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Amazon has “Buy One, Get One” on select Xbox 360 Kinect Games, with Free Shipping! This is a great time to pick up the new release of Child of Eden, or to simply expand your collection with other great games like Kinect Sports, Dance Central and Your Shape Fitness Evolved. The following games are on sale: [...]

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The third DLC for Bethesda’s Fallout: New Vegas, titled Old World Blues will be available for download on July 19th. For those of you who can never have enough Fallout, I know this day cannot come soon enough. In the interim though, here are a few screen shots to keep you guessing about the underlying [...]

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If you’re like me, you probably really enjoyed Mortal Kombat, but felt a bit bored with it after a few hours. It’s not that Mortal Kombat wasn’t a good game, it’s just that the same argument that’s been made against previous MK games can be made again for the current iteration: the characters play too [...]

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Football games have always been a bit too much for me. The Madden and NCAA series in particular bugged me because, from the outside, they seem severely overly complicated. As someone who spent most of his childhood and teen years playing RPGs and pretending I was an adventurer in my suburban backyard, football just was [...]

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Walking through a meat market in Hell isn’t your normal everyday affair. There’s the demons for one, which have the annoying tendency of crawling out from inside the flesh of your screaming dead girlfriend. There’s also the meat itself, which is mostly human bits strung up on cables. Then there’s your Johnson, the British accented [...]

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