Wide-ranging improvements and an excellent new Party Play mode make Guitar Hero 5 a great way to bring some rock into your living room. The Good Party Play mode is superbly social All songs available right from the get-go Improved visuals Music studio is much more accessible. The Bad Lackluster song import feature Vocalists need [...]

.!. .!. Usually we have at least a couple days warning about what is being released on Xbox Live Arcade. But on July 15, Tour de France 2009 was unceremoniously dropped onto the service with no announcement, as if the people responsible for it hoped we didn’t notice. Spend a little time with the game, [...]

.!. X-Blades comes so close to being a great action game. It encompasses most of the elements that you would demand from the best games in the genre: diverse combat with tons of unlockable moves, impressive visuals that optimally frame the frantic fights, and a long quest with plenty of creepy monsters and gigantic boss [...]

Scarecrows It should come as no surprise to anyone that they made another 50 Cent game. Despite its chilly critical reception, 2005′s 50 Cent: Bulletproof sold remarkably well. What is likely to surprise many people is that the new game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, is actually quite good. The fast-paced gameplay, tight controls, [...]

UK REVIEW–After shooting through scores of Covenant and Flood soldiers in three Halo first-person shooters, the United Nations Space Command’s story rewinds a few decades in Halo Wars. The game grants you command of both the human UNSC forces and their archenemy, the theocratic alliance of the Covenant. Halo Wars offers quality cinematic presentation and [...]