THQ Gets Steamed Up
Another day, another pun-tacular headline.
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Guild Wars Expansion Gets Pre-Release Goodies
New in-game items and pre-release access top the list for those who snag the game early.
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New Puzzle Quest Coming to Wii, PS2, PC
Challenge of the Warlords will hit all three platforms this fall.
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Peter Moore Resigns from Microsoft, Xbox
Did he really, or was he asked to leave? Either way, he’s going to lead EA Sports next.
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Hot Shots Tennis Heads to PS2 Today
See, we told you Sony’s last-gen platform was alive and kicking.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The fifth Harry Potter game, and first on Nintendo Wii, marks a radical departure 
for the series. While the other console versions are pigeonholed into classic control schemes, the Wii version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is able to take full advantage of motion controls to turn the Wii Remote into a viable magic wand accessory. On top of that, this is by far the biggest and most polished Potter adventure yet, dragged down only by the companion novel’s slow-paced…
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All-Pro Football 2K8 Hits Store Shelves
Finally, Xbox 360 and PS3 owners get another taste of Visual Concepts football.
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Project Sylpheed
The core gameplay is excruciatingly boring, and great graphics have the same effect as polishing a turd.
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
I profess to never having played the Nintendo DS, much less the
handheld gaming system’s immensely popular Big Brain Academy. The game’s recent jump from handheld to the Wii, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, provides an opportunity for strictly home-based console players to see what all the fuss is about, myself included. I’m willing to put my brain on the line as a test subject, but I won’t forget the game was originally designed to work with the DS touch-screen and not the Wii-mote. The setup is…
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Mass Effect
When LucasArts and BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic,
they probably didn’t realize just how big a hit they had on their role-playing hands. When it came time for a follow-up, BioWare was employed elsewhere, which left Obsidian to take the reins for a sequel that turned out to be not quite as compelling. For BioWare’s next hit-in-the-making, Mass Effect, Microsoft wanted to avoid that fate, signing the developer to create…