Game Reviews

The Ministry of Defense for the UK Wants BF3 and MW3-like Simulators for their Military It's no secret that today's soldiers train on video game style simulators. Both the Secret Service and British servicemen use Virtual Battlepace 2 as part of their training regiment. The VBS2 is a product of Bohemia Interactive, who also made the first Operation Flashpoint games...

South Korea Has Some Issues with Diablo III's Auction Mechanics In South Korea, Blizzard games are huge. And when I mean huge, I mean it's their national sport. In other countries, soccer or baseball is broadcast over the airwaves. In South Korea, it's Starcraft. While Starcraft has its following in the country, Diablo has its own in Korea and throughout...

An Illinois Family Creates a Guinness World Record with Pokemon The Arnold family of Frankfort, Illinois is a five-person dominate force when it comes to Pokemon battling power. This family managed to form a championship winning team and has managed to land themselves in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2012 as the Largest Competitive Pokemon Video Game Family. Yep...

EA Brings Out a Remake of Hard Hitting NFL Blitz So if you haven't heard the news, EA sports decided to remake another popular sports series (and personally one of my favorites), NFL Blitz. Yes sir, the sports arcade title that was responsible for my love of football and hard-hitting tackles is back and remade into a high-definition arcade downloadable...

Despite Lack of Sales in the Region, They're Opening a XBox 360 Store in Japan As you have read in my previous blogs, Microsoft's XBox 360 isn't doing that well in Japan. Microsoft's lack of success is huge as it only sells from two to three thousand consoles a week in Japan. And with news of pulling most materials for...

Nintendo Releases the Official Zelda Timeline to Stop all the Debating of the Timeline Kotaku got their hands on the newest art book for the Legend of Zelda and to everyone's surprise, it contained a Japanese layout of the series ever-so confusing timeline. The book has been out now for sometime, giving plenty of time for proofreads and translations. And...

The 3DS Still Beats Out the Vita in Japan Despite that it's not out here in the states, the PlayStation Vita is currently out in Japan. Its release was met with the usual kinds of enthusiasm and long lines. And it has met tons of favorable praise from the hordes of Sony faithful as well as local Japanese media outlets...

Modern Warfare 3 Review by Guest Writer: Benjamin Wright The Call of Duty Franchise returns with the most complete first-person-shooter (FPS) campaign to date. Following the campaign of its predecessor, Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) the most action-packed storyline of the series. From the moment the character emerges from a downed helicopter on the combat-stricken streets of New York, the game...

Ellen McLain Will Be Voicing Characters in DOTA 2 Ellen McLain, who is known for voicing the Administrator in Team Fortress 2 and GlaDOS in the Portal series, will be returning to voice a couple of characters in DOTA 2 (according to an article on Joystiq). DOTA 2 (aka Defense of the Ancients, aka the reason why my homework was...

Around 53% of Battlefield 3's Players also Played Modern Warfare 3   According to an article on Kotaku, gaming research firm Raptr decided to track how many hours people spent both playing EA's Battlefield 3 and Activision's Modern Warfare 3. The reason for this study predicted that Modern Warfare 3 was going to outsell Battlefield 3. Thus, using a combination...