All I Want for Christmas is to Murder People with Da Vincian Gadgets: An Assassin’s Creed 2 Wish List

When that first footage of Ubisoft’s Jade Raymond playing one of the first demos of the original Assassin’s Creed came out, I was immediately interested. In fact, it’s the game that convinced me to buy an Xbox 360. The game had some really interesting mechanics like the passive and active modes of the face buttons [...]

Review: Batman: Arkham Asylum (X360)

Ha! More like "The CHOKER."

Go back through the annals of gaming history and I’m sure you’ll find a long standing trend in which games created from licensed properties have generally not been well accepted or well made. So the first murmurs about Batman: Arkham Asylum didn’t inspire too much excitement in me. But as [...]

The Fraternity of Third Person Action Games

If game characters had their own personal ad section on Craigslist, I can imagine that as of the past few years a lot of the postings would sound a little like this:

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LOOKING FOR A LITTLE ACTION? – m4w – 28

Some people call me a mercenary, but I’d like to think I’m just a [...]

My Dream of a Multiplayer Utopia

Sean and Bryan have both been playing some multiplayer games recently, and have each formed some different opinions on how they view them. These articles are diverse, but not necessarily opposing, ideas regarding online multiplayer gaming. Read Bryan’s article here.

I’ve had this dream for a while. In my dream, I come home from [...]

Grad Student Gaming: Trading Your Life Away

[Eds. Note: Grad Student Gaming is a new feature section we're going to be running occasionally on the site, helping you get a better idea of what kind of challenges a perpetual student has to face for their gaming habit. This introductory article features new author Sean helping you get the most for your trade-ins, [...]