Diablo III is a strong game wrapped in technical problems and utter inconvenience
Diablo III is an easy game to recommend to fans of the series and newcomers alike… when it works, which so far has not been very often.
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Review: Kid Icarus – Uprising
Kid Icarus: Uprising soars on weird and wacky wings Since the Nintendo 3DS was announced, we’ve been teased with bits and pieces of a new Kid Icarus title, originally slated as part of the system’s launch lineup. Over one year since the system’s launch, Kid Icarus: Uprising has finally made its way onto store shelves and into gamer’s hands. The [...]
Review: Hero Academy (iOS)
At this point in iOS’s lifespan, it is obvious that asynchronous multiplier is the ideal way to play a lot of mobile games. This type of competitive play allowing one person to complete a turn and then await the next move from their opponent has been led to the widespread success of games like Words with Friends and, more recently, [...]
Realm of the Mad God is good, clean, clicky fun
Wild Shadow Studios’ Realm of the Mad God is appropriately named, to be sure. Its mildly-massive multiplayer (up to 85 players can join a server) action is served up bullet-hell style in pixely, 8-bit goodness. Leaving aside things like plot or character motivation, after a brief tutorial (and the unsettling news the Mad God Oryx has trapped you in his [...]
First impressions: Asura’s Wrath
Asura is angry. He’s very angry. If I was never sure of anything else during my 15-minute jaunt through the Asura’s Wrath demo, I was always sure of that. In fact, the demo decided to forego the “whys” and “hows” of Asura’s vein-popping rage and just drop you straight into the action – in this case, a fight with a [...]
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is good, but easy
There are criticisms to be made, of course, but considering the possible pitfalls in the game’s ambition to create a lush, open-world, single player role-playing game with the depth of mass multiplayer online, Amalur delivers a solid experience.
