Author: Mohamed Al-Saadoon
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Review: East India Company Collection (PC)
East India Company Collection Genre: Trading Sim Developer: Nitro Games Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release Date: 4/30/2010 After releasing their first game last year, Nitro games continued to provide East India Company with a stream of DLC adding new features and modes to the core game. Now Paradox and Nitro are releasing East India Company Collection…
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Review: Sam & Max in the Devil’s Playhouse: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak (PC)
Sam and Max in the Devil’s Playhouse Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak Genre: Point and Click Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date: 5/18/2010 One month and three days after the release of the first episode of Sam and Max in The Devil’s Playhouse comes Episode 2 “The Tomb of Sammun-Mak” that picks…
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Review: Sam and Max: The Penal Zone (PC)
Sam and Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone Genre: Point and Click Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date: 4/15/2010 I love Sam and Max. I played all their games and even read “Surfin’ The Highway” (still haven’t watched the cartoon though). So it may seem strange that the first Sam and Max game…
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First PES 2011 Info, Video Released
Konami have finally officially announced the feature list for Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 on their official website: Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH will deliver a completely new footballing experience later this year with the advent of PES 2011, for PlayStation®3, Xbox 360, PC-DVD, Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP (PlayStation®Portable), which sees the publisher’s long-running series undergo…
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Mechwarrior 4 Now Available For Free
After a long legal dispute with Microsoft, Studio Mektek have finally been able to launch the classic PC game Mechwarrior 4 and all its expansions for free over their propriety delivery system MTX. The game was intentionally supposed to release months ago in order to promote the upcoming reboot of the Mechwarrior franchise by Smith…
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Review: Red Steel 2 (Nintendo Wii)
Red Steel 2 Genre: First Person Shooter Developer: Ubisoft Paris Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 3/23/2010 Everyone remembers the Wii launch title Red Steel. Unfortunately for Ubisoft, it’s for all the wrong reasons. Many people expected the game to show off the capabilities of the then new Wiimote in enriching the gameplay experience with its sword…
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First Details of Warhammer 40k MMO released
According to Swedish MMO website mmofocus.se , THQ are planning on announcing the features of the long awaited Warhammer 40k MMORPG in E3 this year and they just happened to get a leak of what these features are: Playable factions: – Empire – Eldar – Orcs – Chaos Features: – Focus both on Melee and…
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Goldhawk Studios announces “Xenonauts”
Angry at the recent decision to turn the revered XCOM franchise into an FPS? (remember XCOM Enforcer? Yeah that wasn’t good either) Indie developers Goldhawk Studios have pushed up their announcement of their tribute to the XCOM series in an attempt to get exposure from the fallout of 2K Game’s new take on the beloved…
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Review: Infinite Space (Nintendo DS)
Infinite Space Genre: Japanese Role Playing Game Developer: Platinum Games/Nude Maker Publisher: Sega Release Date: 3/16/2010 I’ll admit that the only reason I was first interested in Infinite Space was because it had a catchy name that caught my eye while searching through IGN’s release date calendar months ago (though the game was called Infinite…
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Konami Picks up Copa Libertadores for Pro Evolution Soccer ’11
Good news for Pro Evolution Soccer fans ahead of PES2011’s official announcement. After grabbing the exclusive UEFA Champion’s League license, Konami have now also secured the rights to the Copa Libertadores , The South American version of the Champion’s League. Konami have been accused in the past of not using their resources to acquire licenses…
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Review: Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity (PC)
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity Genre: Real Time Strategy Developer: Ironclad Games Publisher: Stardock Entertainment Release Date: 2/9/2010 Back when the hype train for Sins of a Solar Empire was running back in 2007, it seemed the game was too good to be true. Take the best of the 4X turn based strategy genre…
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Mastering the Master League
One of the best new features in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 is the revamped master league mode. Youth teams, training, finances, negotiations, and scouting have fundamentally changed this mode for the better (though I’d like the option to switch teams please, Konami). So now you just booted up a game in the Master League and…
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Review:Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (PC)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Genre: Sports Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release Date: 10/23/2009 Note: All screenshots taken with high settings on PC which is equivlant to Xbox360 and PS3 Another year, another iteration of Pro Evolution Soccer is released. I think by now it’s pretty clear I’m hopelessly addicted to the specific game franchise and…
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Demo Impressions: Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (PC)
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:…
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Review: Majesty 2:The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (PC)
Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim Genre: Strategy Developer: 1C:Ino-Co Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release Date: 9/18/2009 The original Majesty came out nine years ago with its unique take on the whole “overlord” genre. Instead of being an evil overlord such as in Dungeon Keeper, you are a king of the fantasy Kingdom of Ardania and…
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I Only Play Here Because It Beats Starving
Everyone knows about World Football’s (that’s Soccer to you Americans) greatest transfers. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid for the ridiculous amount of 132 Million US dollars and Real Madrid President Perez boasting about a transfer budget in the vicinity of 800 million Euros, which means they can pretty much buy out every…
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Demo Impressions: Championship Manager 2010 (PC)
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…
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I Only Play Here Because It Beats Starving Week 4
Everyone knows about World Football’s (that’s Soccer to you Americans) greatest transfers. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid for the ridiculous amount of 132 Million US dollars and Real Madrid President Perez boasting about a transfer budget in the vicinity of 800 million Euros, which means they can pretty much buy out every…
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Review: Hearts of Iron III (PC)
Hearts of Iron III Genre: Grand Strategy Developer: Paradox Interactive Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release Date: 7/31/2009
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I Only Play Here Because It Beats Starving Week 3
Everyone knows about World Football’s (that’s Soccer to you Americans) greatest transfers. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid for the ridiculous amount of 132 Million US dollars and Real Madrid President Perez boasting about a transfer budget in the vicinity of 800 million Euros, which means they can pretty much buy out every…