There are many things I expect from a modern Ratchet game: pinpoint controls, inventive weaponry, visuals worthy of an animated feature, and a zany, Looney-Toons-style sense of humor. A Crack in Time fully delivers on those bullet points, then goes on to surprise with an outer-space-roaming open-world structure, time-manipulating puzzles that could be described as [...]
Archive | November, 2009
The Year’s Best, According to Metacritic
For most gamers, review scores are an invaluable tool in determining whether or not a particular game is woth buying. Metacritic.com is perhaps the most widely used review aggregate site; it assigns and adapts scores from various media outlets into a simple 10 point rating scale. Since the Holiday season is upon us, I decided [...]
Release Round-Up for the Week of November 29
by John Catuira
I hope everyone’s sufficiently recovered from their turkey comas because there are still more new games to buy. Just in time for the Holidays, highlights for this week’s releases are below.
Two weeks before the movie release, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game puts the player on the planet Pandora, amidst a conflict between the [...]
Greenberg: Black Friday 360 Sales Biggest of the Year
Microsoft is no stranger to Black Friday success when it comes to sales of the Xbox 360 console. Last year, Microsoft boasted that the 360 had outsold the PS3 by a three-to-one margin on Black Friday (although the NPD numbers were closer to two-to-one for the month of November.) We can likely expect to see [...]
“BOOM” Sony/BestBuy Bundle
Have you been waiting to take your entertainment to the next level? Not yet taken the dive into the waters to find the joys of High def television or gaming. Well now is your chance to jump in head first at the same time picking up a pretty sweet deal. Sony has combined with Best Buy [...]

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