The devil is in the nerdy details, and the third Deus Ex game is starting to nail them down. We already knew it looked good. We already knew it appeared faithful to the talk/sneak/hack/shoot methodology of the unrivalled original. But there’s an extra dysfunctional pleasure to knowing how many augmentations there are, how many ways [...]

Bad Com­pany 2: Viet­nam is here, well at least for PC play­ers who pre­ordered it at the EA store or on Steam. If you are like me you had this pre­or­dred weeks ago and now it is finally here. Many games this year have been mas­sive dis­ap­point­ments. Games that we had high expec­ta­tions of, most [...]

Between Disney’s 1982 classic Tron and its flash 2010 sequel lies Tron: Evolution, the video game that seeks to bridge the gap between the two films. This is one shaky bridge. Tron: Evolution puts players in the digital shoes of Anon (short for Anonymous), a faceless system monitor that gets caught up in the struggle [...]

Plain Sight is a game about self-destructive robots banging into each other in low-gravity levels fashioned after cassette tapes, pirate ships, and pocket watches. And if that isn’t enough to pique your interest, then consider this: It’s also a ton of fun. This multiplayer-focused action game is a chaotic hoot, filled with cel-shaded robots zooming [...]

While playing Sims games of yore, sending your little computer people off to work was a straightforward process: The carpool drove up, and you waved good-bye to your digital self, who then earned simoleans by doing unseen tasks in some unseen work environment. In the Sims 3, you could exert minimal control, but your sims’ [...]