Phil Villarreal
8 Hot Video Games To Beg Santa For This Xmas
You’re excused if you’ve last track of all the marquee video games that have hit shelves in the past several weeks. Just like Tim Tebow, game publishers hold back their best stuff for the end. Even those of us who play and read about games constantly have trouble keeping track of what’s out there.
‘Tekken Hybrid’ Triple-Teams Players…In A Good Way [REVIEW]
Back in college we spent too much time playing Tekken games at the student union while everyone else was doing stuff like inventing Facebook, stealing the idea for Facebook, having sex or doing drugs.
Run From Dinosaurs and Poor Design Choices In ‘Jurassic Park’ Game [REVIEW]
The last great Jurassic Park game we remember was the ginormous arcade machine shaped like an ATV. You’d step in with a buddy, grab a gun and kill as many dinos as you can before they clawed you to death. Simpler times.
‘Voltron: Defender of the Universe’ Takes Us Back to the 80′s [REVIEW]
If you were as lucky as we were, your parents sat you down in front of the TV rather than trying to raise you proper. And everything you know came from the sage advice of grainy, poorly animated cartoons such as ‘Voltron’ that were interspersed with so-terrible-they-were-great commercials.
‘Mario Kart 7′ is Just Like the Mario Kart Games — But That’s Fine With Us [REVIEW]
You’ve got to hand it to Nintendo– they are king at making the same game over and over again while adoring fans — us included — squeal with delight. You sell yourself again and again to us, claiming you’re different but you’re always the same. You
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‘Need for Speed: The Run’ Is Just Dumb Fun [REVIEW]
If the movies ‘Cannonball Run’ and ‘Death Race 2000′ got it on in the back of a Dodge Charger, ‘Need for Speed: The Run‘ would be the spawn they’d battle for custody over nine months later.
Do You Know How To Block a Punch?
The best ways to avoid getting your lights punched out are to run away or cower and beg for mercy, but sometimes physical confrontations are unavoidable.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’ is the Only Reason To Still Own the Wii [Game Review]
Mock us if you must, but we’ve always been suckers for running around pretend forests while wearing green skirt-tunics and imagining we’re pointy-eared, boy heroes.
WWE ’12′ — Game Review
Wrestling video games have always been fun enough, but usually because of the imagination wrestling fans brought to them, rather than what was actually available in gameplay. ‘WWE ‘12′ is out to change all that.
‘Assassin’s Creed Revelations’ — Game Review
‘Assassin’s Creed Revelations’ is a game for history buffs, lovers of 16th century Constantinople, conspiracy theorists and anyone who would like to shank Adrian Peterson and Derrick Rose in the streets of 16th century Constantinople.
‘Saints Row: The Third’ — Game Review
‘Saints Row: The Third’ seems like it was written by a hyperactive 13-year-old with an overactive imagination. That’s kind of a compliment.
‘The Elder Scrolls v: Skyrim’ — Game Review
Sometimes video games give user the choice of whether to be a hero or villain who does whatever the hell he wants, and we’ll never understand people who choose the former route. Especially when a game such as ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ makes it so fun to be bad.