Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it’s just our hopes for DC Universe Online falling a bit from the heights we envisioned during our hands-on last month. The final product still packs a super-powered punch, but the thrill is fleeting. The quests quickly get repetitive. The content may not warrant playing beyond…
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is the latest attempt by a major television studio to make a successful Facebook tie-in game, and predictably this virtual fighter largely follows the safe formula laid down by previous titles of the same ilk. You buy equipment, you level with every fight, and you take part in largely automated…
Perhaps “Spare Parts” wasn’t the best name for EA Bright Light’s newest downloadable platformer. The name all too often highlights the clunky way this online and offline cooperative journey borrows liberally from Ratchet & Clank and misuses the considerable voice talents of Simon Pegg, resulting in a fairly brief experience that feebly parrots aspects of…
I came to TrainCity as one of the few Americans who still rides trains on a daily basis, whether it’s by dodging knife fights on Chicago’s Green Line or suffering through yuppie commentaries on Desperate Housewives on the statelier Metra line. As such, perhaps I expected a bit too much from this charming but simple…
After six years, World of Warcraft might be showing its age. I still have fun with the game, of course, but even I have to admit that the effects of doing the same things over and over again are starting to wear down on me. I bought my first valor-piece epic the other night (which…
I honestly wanted to be kinder to this one. After my wife read through it for her edits, she started saying “Fuzzits!” and “cuuuuuuuuuuute” for several days–which made me feel terrible. Even now we’re using the subject line “Fuzzits Review” to write back and forth to each other just because she likes the reminder to…
This is one of those reviews where I had to hold back my wonder at what I was seeing. After playing so many games that kept the actual action safely out of view, my mouth was almost on the floor after seeing my golf balls soar through the air and landing more or less where…
Not long after I wrote this article, the Horde managed to capture Tol Barad on my server. After what I wrote in this column, I was frankly ready to give it up for lost–as were several Alliance in the team I was playing with at the time. Some even went so far as to say,…
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