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Category: Xbox 360

  • Review: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (360)

    Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Developer: Traveler’s Tales Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Platformer Release Date: 06/29/10 I’m not gonna lie. I love the Lego games. They manage to tie in with most of the properties that appeal to my inner kid: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman…. So, now that Harry Potter has been…

  • Review: Deathsmiles (360)

    Deathsmiles Genre: Traditional Shooter Developer: Cave Publisher: Aksys Games Release Date: 06/29/10 Developer Cave is fairly unknown in the US, primarily because most of their games have remained in their home country of Japan, but they’ve managed to churn out some pretty quality products over the past several years. One of their major focus genres…

  • Review: Puzzle Quest 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Puzzle Quest 2 Publisher: D3Publisher Developer: Infinite Interactive Genre: Puzzle/RPG Release Date: 06/30/2010 March of 2007 came and went innocently enough, but that was the same month where Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords fell into my lap (well, more specifically, my Nintendo DS). It didn’t seem like too many outlets or gamers were too…

  • Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for June 24th, 2010

    As I mentioned in this week’s Playstation wrap-up, I took last week off for E3. Apparently, Sony was exhausted, and decided to take this week off. Microsoft, for all of the inherent problems Xbox LIVE has as a service – the most of which is that I have to pay $50/yr to be able to…

  • Review: Green Day: Rock Band (360)

    Green Day: Rock Band Publisher: MTV Games Developer: Harmonix Genre: Rhythm Release Date: 06/08/2010 We’ve all been around this block before and with the music gaming genre, the old adage “same dance, different tune” is becoming more and more apt as time goes on. Personally, I would lay this burden more on Activision’s exorbitant raping…

  • Review: Alpha Protocol (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Alpha Protocol Genre: Action RPG Developer: Obsidian Entertainment Publisher: Sega Release Date: 06/01/10 The first impression one gets when looking at Alpha Protocol is that it’s an attempt to crossbreed the RPG action of something like Mass Effect with the spy-fiction storytelling of something like Splinter Cell, and that’s not far from the truth. Obsidian…

  • Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for June 9th, 2010

    It’s 1AM on Thursday morning. Let’s get this shit on the road. Corrections Before I begin with this week’s material, I have to issue a correction in regards to last week’s piece. I said when I profiled Snoopy Flying Ace that the demo was pretty weak, only showing one tutorial stage, and that I wouldn’t…

  • Review: Raystorm HD (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Raystorm HD Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Genre: Vertical Shoot ’em Up Release Date: 5/5/2010 Anyone who’s paid attention to anything I’ve written in the past couple years knows that I have a hard-on for anything that bears the Working Designs logo. Even bad games such as Silhouette Mirage sit on our collective game stand simply…

  • Review: Attack of the Movies 3D (360)

    Attack of the Movies 3D Publisher: Majesco Developer: Panic Button Genre: Shooter Release Date: 05/18/2010 The 3D craze in theaters is now making its way to videogames. We’ve had the promise of three-dimensional graphics for decades now, but Majesco is boasting that it has released the first truly 3D shooter. Is this worth playing, or…

  • Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for June 3rd, 2010

    As I mentioned in yesterday’s PSN piece, this week is a massive time crunch for me due to reasons outside of videogames. Of course, three games to review and bunches of other demos to play aren’t helping either, but needless to say, this is going to be a quick-and-dirty Xbox LIVE wrap-up. Xbox LIVE Arcade…

  • Review: Split/Second (360)

    Split/Second Developer: Black Rock Publisher: Disney Interactive Genre: Arcade Racer 05/18/10 Story/Modes Split/Second is the name of a fictional Reality Television show. You begin the game by auditioning to enter the contest and make the final roster of contestants who will put everything on the line to compete and win the prize of champion. That…

  • Review: Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition Publisher: Atlus Developer: ACE Team Genre: First-Person Action Release Date: 05/05/2010 After a bit of a delay in development, Zeno Clash has finally hit the Xbox 360 in its Ultimate Edition glory. Even though the title original release turned a lot of heads in the PC community, including our own Guy…

  • Xbox LIVE Wrap-Up for May 27th, 2010

    I have bad news, and more bad news. The bad news is that DJ Tatsujin, due to his (absolutely outstanding) work with our PR department, will no longer be able to do this piece on a weekly basis. The more bad news is that you’re all stuck with me until we can find a permanent…

  • Review: Alan Wake (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Alan Wake Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Remedy Entertainment Genre: Survival Horror Release Date: 05/18/2010 We have reached the point in this console generation’s life cycle where developers are no longer satisfied with telling the story of hard, strong men doing brave, bold things. Instead, we’ve reached the point where story is king, and just…

  • Review: Dead to Rights: Retribution (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Dead to Rights: Retribution Genre: Action/Third Person Shooter Developer: Volatile Games Publisher: Namco Bandai Release Date: 04/27/10 Dead to Rights is one of those franchises that always seems to be missing something in each of its releases. The core concept of a hard-boiled police officer and his dog taking it to criminal scum is neat,…

  • Review: 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports Genre: Realistic Sports Release Date: 4/27/2010 (NA) I was very, very nice to FIFA ’10 when I reviewed it. I gave it a good score, pointed out that it was a better football game than Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, and said that it…

  • Review: Super Street Fighter IV (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Super Street Fighter IV Genre: Fighting Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 04/27/10 One year and two months ago, I was given the opportunity to review what was, at the time, a fighting game I was heavily anticipating in Street Fighter IV. While I enjoyed the game on the whole, I couldn’t help but feel…

  • Review: Iron Man 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Iron Man 2 Publisher: Sega Studios San Diego Developer: Sega Genre: Action Release Date: 05/04/2010 Summer. Marvel. Movie tie-in. If anyone is still reading, you should know by now that I’m talking about Iron Man 2. The first game was so bad that it gave bleeding ulcers to a full two-thirds of the people who…

  • Review: Splinter Cell: Conviction (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Splinter Cell: Conviction Genre: Stealth Action Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 04/13/10 Splinter Cell, as a franchise, has evolved from a Western take on Metal Gear Solid with Tom Clancy’s name attached into a full-fledged stealth action series, largely thanks to some interesting gameplay mechanics and exceptional spy thriller storylines. The first several…

  • Review: Prison Break (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Prison Break: The Conspiracy Developer: Zootfly Publisher: Deep Silver Genre: Stealth/Action Release Date: 04/01/2010 Although some publisher complications held Prison Break: The Conspiracy back a bit, the title was able to finally see the light of day last month thanks to Deep Silver. Prison Break’s appearance on the Xbox 360 attempts to tap into the…