Screens: Sins of a Solar Empire – Trinity (PC)
Developer: Ironclad
Publisher: Ironclad
Genre: PC
Release Date: 2010

Last week, I took a little vacation to handle some other responsibilities, so the capable and beautiful Aileen Coe took over and did an admirable job with a loaded slate of games. It was a lot of work, but she came through beautifully, and I was able to take care of everything that I needed [...]

Wherein I get arrested for underage drinking and Bob Saget teaches me a life lesson. Or not.

Screens: Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West (PC)
Developer: Paradox Interactive
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Genre: team-based online shooter
Release Date: early Q2 2010

5-in-1 Solitaire
Publisher: Digital Leisure
Developer: Digital Leisure
Genre: Card Game
Release Date: 02/01/2010
This is interesting. 5-in-1 Solitaire was released for DSiWare the same day as the WiiWare version. The DSi version was only 200 Nintendo points ($2), while the Wii version if 500 ($5). You would think the portable one would be more expensive, since you can take [...]

Welcome to this week’s, “Sequel, Spin Off, Start Over or Stay Dead?” Each week we’re going to look at a dormant franchise that was once pretty popular, but for some reason has disappeared into the sands of time. Diehard GameFAN staffers will have four options for what they want to have happen to the series [...]

Muscle March
Genre: Mini-Game
Developer: Namco Bandai
Publisher: Namco Bandai
Release Date: 01/18/2010
As the gaming industry expands and more games are released, we’re beginning to see more and more bizarre games filter their way into the regular expected release lists. Third person shooters and RPG’s with pretty male leads only attract so much attention anymore. So if you can’t [...]

I’d like to start off by saying that I should’ve done one of these articles more recently, but between family holidays, busy working schedule and there just being a lot of games that have come out over the last month that I wanted to sit down and enjoy without worrying about a review deadline, I [...]

Screens: Deep Blue Sea 2 (PC)
Developer: The Game Equation
Publisher: TBD
Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: March 2010

Here we are in week four of Catching Up With 2009. It has been nearly a month since I started this column, and trust me, I’ve still got a ways to go before I’ve fully caught up with everything. I even ventured over to a new Gamestop in my area and picked up about six [...]

Screens: 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (PS3/360)
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: EA SPORTS
Genre: Sports
Release Date: April 2010

Fresh off finishing work on the much-anticipated BioShock 2, the teams at 2K Marin and Digital Extremes have surfaced from the depths of Rapture for a quick breath of air. Thankfully, during this time, Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon and Hoagy De La Plante from 2K Marin and Mat Tremblay and Jesse Attard of Digital [...]

We consistently harp on how the American video game industry is affected by various forces within it. Most of the time, we only care about how specific releases are affected, if American jobs are affected, or if American release dates are affected. It’s not often we really look into the Japanese game industry unless it’s [...]

Screens: Rooms: The Main Building – Mansion 2 (NDS)
Developer: Hudson
Publisher: Hudson
Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: March 23, 2010

The past few weeks have been weak for the Playstation Store. For two straight weeks, we had weak updates with little content. Then last week, we had an update with a lot of content, most of which sucked (on that note, expect my Hustle Kings review sometime next week!). This week brings us a bunch [...]

Puzzle Chronicles
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Infinite Interactive
Genre: Puzzle RPG
Release Date: 01/28/2010

Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
Genre: RPG
Developer: Hijinx Studios, LLC
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: 01/20/2010
RPGs and I have a secret love affair.  I can tolerate more time spent with a good RPG and a bottle of rum than I can with most of my relationships.  That either says I love video games too much or am an alcoholic.  [...]

Let’s get this out of the way up front: I had mixed emotions about Risen before I went out to preview the game last week. The game, at first glance, looked to be another third person action RPG on a console flush with them. Reviews of the European Xbox 360 release had been unkind to [...]

Screens: Viral Survival (Wii)
Developer: NIS America
Publisher: NIS America
Genre: Arcade
Release Date: Spring 2010

I hope everyone turned a page on their calendars, as today brings us our first Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for the month of February 2010. This week we’re looking ahead to many more updates in order to see what is in store for Xbox LIVE gamers. The week of February 4 is actually pulling [...]