Virtua Fighter 5 has lived a long, fruitful life through this generation. First making its appearance on the PS3 early on in its life, it was later ported to the Xbox 360 with added online play. For years, the game would stay quiet up until the Final Showdown update for the arcades in 2010. With the addition of new characters and rebalancing the game over the last console release, it would finally reach consoles in 2012 as a downloadable title. This would mark the first “new” Virtua Fighter game that would not be released through physical distribution. READ MORE
Since the death of Guitar Hero and the somewhat dwindling interest in the Rock Band series as of late, we haven’t had much of a reason to use our guitar controllers. To be honest, mine has been collecting dust for some time now. Developer Zivix decided to capitalize on the dying interest of peripheral-based games. Was it a successful attempt?
More or less. READ MORE
For the first time since its release in the arcades back in 2005, House of the Dead 4 finally makes its first console appearance on the PlayStation 3. Considering how many times the previous games have been released and re-released, it amazes me this one didn’t come out sooner. READ MORE
From the company that brought you Blood Bowl and garnered a couple of positive reviews in the process, one would figure that the company’s next game would try ride the wave of that success. Focus Home Interactive’s Confrontation, originally a tabletop warfare game, sounds like the type of game that would work very well translated to video game form. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite meet those expectations. READ MORE
For the last 14 years, The Mario Party series has followed a pretty standard formula that hasn’t seen much variety through the previous eight iterations: gather four of your friends, roll dice, play your minigame, yell at friends, lather, rinse, repeat. Winner is determined by how many stars and coins you have.
A lot of people would probably be thinking, “Huh, another Mario Party game. Same old boring stuff as it usually is.” For once, they’d actually be wrong.
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