Cannon Spike
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Psikyo
Genre: Traditional Shooter
Release Date: 11/14/2000

Championship Manager used to be a name that was held sacred by PC gamers all around the world (except in America for obvious reasons). A simple football management game programmed by two English brothers in their bedroom back in 1992 grew to be a global phenomenon with not one, but two releases that are contenders [...]

On September 9th, 2009, we will have the tenth anniversary of the North American launch of the Sega Dreamcast. It’s a system that remains a fan favourite, even though it was the death knell for Sega as a hardware supplier. It might even surprise many of you that even though Sega no longer supports the [...]

With a title too blunt to be pornographic and a look straight out of my video store haunting adolescence, WET from Bethesda Softworks has the makings of a cult classic. From the opening screen on, there is a game feature that will pretty much decide if this is the game for you or not: faux [...]

As a sports gamer, I look forward to the end of summer every year, because this is when the big annual releases come out. NCAA Football usually kicks off the season, with everyone waiting around for the spectacle that is the yearly Madden release. This then leads into the other sports, with the NHL, Football/Soccer, [...]

Hey again, folks. Been, what, a whole week since I’ve been able to do this? Well, yay for being prolific, I suppose. Anyway, hurray for more T-shirts and such.

Despite already having a Husky PS3, upon seeing the PS3 Slim’s availability at local area Best Buy stores today, I couldn’t resist. After all, I got the PS3 at launch, and its been overheating and freezing in the middle of games, so somehow that rationalized buying the PS3 Slim.
Box from the outside:

Unpacked PS3 Slim:

PS3 Slim [...]

Cursed Mountain is both the first survival horror game and the first Nintendo Wii game from Deep Silver, the company that gave us the 2006 Runner Up for Adventure Game of the Year and PC Game of the Year in Secret Files: Tunguska. Fellow DHGF staffers Aileen Coe and Chris Bowen had some nice [...]

Last week, Deep Silver held a press event in New York City to showcase five of their upcoming games, and fellow staffer Chris Bowen made the trek with me to the event. The featured games were Risen (360, PC), Cursed Mountain (Wii), Mytran Wars (PSP), The Humans (DS, PC), and Fritz Chess (DS). Upon stepping [...]

A while back, we had an opportunity to ask the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 team some questions and Dan Wallace, the game’s Senior Producer, was kind enough to answer them for us.
Diehard GameFAN: Why focus on the Civil War events in the game instead of many of the other big crossover events Marvel has done [...]

Hey again, folks. Been a while since I’ve been able to post one of these, but I’m happy to report our resident artist has managed to publish himself another shit. I’m sure you care.

When I lived in the “big” city a few years back, we may have had a ton of modern restaurants and retail stores, but, man, did our mall ever suck. Centered square in the middle of the mall was a tiny, unmanned arcade that was notoriously stocked with beat-up overflow cabinets that typically never [...]

Back in the ‘90s, some companies were absolutely convinced FMV and “movies that you control” were the future. Unfortunately, the results of such efforts were deemed by the majority as below average at best and painful at worst. If capturing live actors in photo-realistic detail brought us anything, though, it delivered classic fighting [...]

When the first DECA Sports game was released, I wondered what was the point of another sports themed mini-game collection. Not only does one come packaged with the Wii system, but there have been several similar type games released. However the original DECA Sports not only did well, it did very well, outselling a [...]

So the demo for Dissidia hit the Playstation Network yesterday and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. Most of that comes from my deep dark desire to pummel Tidus from FFX into the ground for about ten hours or so, but I digress.
Now it should be noted that the demo seems [...]

This month it’s two different requests from two different people. The first is a fellow staffer over at Diehard GameFAN who requested a moveset for Roserade. The other is a reader who called himself “RISK.” He writes,
Ok, I’d like a strong Psychic type on my team, but I’m not too enthused about using Alakazam again, [...]

Through PC development tools such as MUGEN and Fighter Maker, from time to time we see some pretty amazing homebrewed fighters. The flavor of the moment, hailing out of Japan and getting a ton of recognition, is ヴァンガードプリンセス, or Vanguard Princess if you’re more apt to the English tongue. The game is credited [...]

Hey everyone, we here at Diehard GameFAN has teamed up with Codemasters, publishers of Overlord II, Overlord: Dark Legend and Overlord: Minions to bring you, our readers, the chance to win copies of your own Overlord video games. Both contests are quite different from the other, so feel free to participate in both.
Contest #1: Dressed [...]

Hearts of Iron III
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Developer: Paradox Interactive
Genre: Grand Strategy
Release Date: Q3 2009
I won’t lie. One of the main reasons I joined Diehard GameFAN is to get free videogames, and the game I wanted most over all others is this one: Hearts of Iron III. Hearts of Iron II still stands as one of my [...]

The co-creator of the popular Xbox 360 Community Game Angry Barry details the past and future of Arrogancy Games and reveals what the studio is currently up to.