I am unabashedly a child of the 1980s. My weekends were filled with the Looney Tunes cartoon, Alvin and the Chipmunks, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and The Smurfs. There was a bunch of live-action goodness in there too -- Battlestar Galactica (the original), The A-Team and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century -- but the cartoons are the only parts I’ve shared with my kids. The Smurfs has definitely been their most beloved, so when Ubisoft released The Smurfs 2 video game, the kids and I smurfed at the chance to test it out. (Yes, … [Read more...]
Darksiders 2 Hands-on Preview
In this era of excessive gore, you’d think a game with one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would be rife with blood, guts and violence. The original Darksiders game proved that hypothesis wrong, with a mature tone but decidedly more adventure- than action-oriented experience. For Darksiders 2, THQ and Vigil Games hope to up the ante in every possible way, a goal made possible in part by switching from the protagonist War to his brother, Death. The change means much more than a new veneer and name; after spending … [Read more...]