Picture this: You’re trapped in a sterile environment loaded with obstacles and traps to overcome. The halting voice of a computer outlines the task ahead of you. You have no weapon to keep yourself protected–just a couple of devices that you use to manipulate the environment. If you’ve played Portal, this is a familiar setup, and [...]

In Divinity II, the hunter becomes the hunted. You begin this third-person role-playing game as a newly recruited dragon slayer, eager to join a bloodthirsty party tracking down a fearsome lizard. Soon, however, a turn of events transforms you into what you once reviled: a dragon knight who can slice through enemies on the ground [...]

King’s Bounty: Armored Princess does more of the same really well. The stand-alone expansion to 2008′s cult hit King’s Bounty: The Legend adds virtually nothing to the original’s strategy role-playing game formula, but the game does all of the by-the-numbers stuff so perfectly that you can’t help but love the deja vu. While developer Katauri [...]

The Winter Olympics are known for their collection of sports that only raise their head out of the snow once every four years. From the intense sweeping action of curling to the celestial tango of figure skating, families crowd around their glowing televisions to watch superniche athletes compete in these quadrennial events. In Vancouver 2010–the [...]

Army of Two: The 40th Day is a third-person shooter in which your objective is simple: get out of Dodge. Or more accurately, Shanghai, a city that is being torn apart by missiles for no discernable reason. Why is this happening? Who is behind it? Who cares! You can paint skulls on your shotgun and [...]