What was the worst gift you ever got for your birthday? Mine was a box of cat poop (true story), though even that was probably not as bad as the gift received by the main character of Rooms: The Main Building. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle that transports you to another world where the only means [...]

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 [...]

Trauma Team is a departure from the previous Trauma Center series, with less of a focus on performing operations and an introduction of five new specialties. Recently I was given the opportunity to watch a demonstration of the forensics part of the game. Thus far, it looks to be a treat for those who like [...]

On Thursday, January 14th, XSEED released a playable demo of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony onto the PSP. Now I’m a big fan of the original Lunar: The Silver Star and I still own it for the Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sony PSX and the Lunar Legend remake on the GBA. To say Lunar is one [...]

Calling is the upcoming survival horror game from Hudson with a tentative release date of March, 2010. Recently Hudson sent me a demo of the game to try out. Always a fan of survival horror that is more terror than gore, I was pretty excited to give this a chance especially as the crown jewel [...]

Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! 2: Time to Tighten Up Security!
Developer: SCEI/Acquire
Publisher: NIS America, Inc.
Genre: Strategy
Release Date: March 2010
This past July, NIS released Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?, which charged you with raising an army of monsters to squash any heroes who tried to invade Badman’s lair [...]

While it certainly has its repercussions, who wouldn’t want to be a badass? Power, money, respect and some attraction from the opposite sex go hand in hand with the label if we are to believe Steven Seagal movies, however, Atlus’s upcoming Kenka Bancho shows us that the times of a badass can also be [...]

While the Nintendo DSi’s anticipated release has come and gone, it seems little has been done to take advantage of its features. With expanded audio features and two cameras, one would think we would be seeing more in regard to innovative games that take advantage of said features. Thankfully, Visual Impact Productions has [...]

Island Officials is looking to bring the most popular puzzle craze from the East since Sudoku to the Nintendo DS, and with the simplicity of the title, Hands On! Tangrams should be a perfect fit for the system. The premise has players manipulating five right triangles (two small, two large and one medium in [...]

If you’re as old as I am, you may not have noticed, but Bakugan has become a pretty big thing. With an animated TV series, a collectible board game, toys and other such novelties around for kids to play with and collect, it’s become something of a massive phenomenon at this point. Therefore, it was [...]

Hand’s On Preview: Geon Cube
Developer: Strawdog Studios
Publisher: UFO Interactive
Genre: Arcade Puzzler
Release Date: 10/20/2009
To say Geon Cube is an under the radar title, is a bit of an understatement. There’s nothing really out there about the game. EB Gamestop doesn’t list it even though it comes out in less than a month. Gamerankings [...]

Talk to any person familiar with football games about the PS2 era, they will most likely get a wistful look on their face as they recall the days they spent playing the several iterations of Pro Evolution Soccer released on Sony’s seminal system. Swift passes, outrageous dribbles, powerful long range shots and best of all: [...]

Half-Minute Hero
Developer: Marvelous Entertainment
Publisher: XSEED
Genre: Roleplaying
Release Date: 10/20/2009

I was able to attend the Need for Speed event at the BLVD nightclub in New York City recently along with my colleague and fiancee, the beautiful Aileen Coe. A big deal has been made about NFS:S being a chance for the Need for Speed franchise as EA tries to expand the brand a bit. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]