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'Anomaly: Warzone Earth' Game Review

Alex Riviello — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:49:55 +0000

By now most everyone is sick of Tower Defense games. They seem the go-to genre for smaller developers and we’ve been inundated with subpar entries, perhaps because it’s easy to think of a new gimmick or theme for them and slap right on. In my mind nothing much has bested Desktop Tower Defense, the original browser game which almost single-handedly kicked off the popularity of the style, although there have been a few notable exceptions like Plants Vs. Zombies and Pixeljunk Monsters.

'Yesterday' Game Review

Alex Riviello — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:07 +0000

When I was in high school I had a friend who brought over some pictures he took while exploring a supposedly abandoned lair of a satanic cult. It was in some old hospital or similarly eerie place and he told me about how creepy the place was before showing me the pictures, which made me [...]

Leisure Suit Larry is Coming…Back

Alex Riviello — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:54 +0000

Jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon, Al Lowe and Replay Games have taken to the crowd-funding site to help finance their remake of Leisure Suit Larry in Land of the Lounge Lizards. First released by Sierra in 1987, the series revolves around a skeevy character named Larry Laffer who spends most of the many (many) games he [...]

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Game Review

Alex Riviello — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:00:41 +0000

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This is not the Resident Evil you were expecting. Capcom decided to take a detour before the sixth installment of their survival horror series to bring some squad-based multiplayer to the zombie-infested property. To do so they enlisted the help of developer Slant Six Games, the team behind multiple ‘SOCOM’ titles, and the results are a bit mixed.

'Kid Icarus: Uprising' Game Review

Phil Villarreal — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:08 +0000

Word has it that Nintendo only went with Kid Icarus: Uprising as the subtitle for its new Kid Icarus 3DS game only after ‘Wristbreaker,’ ‘Carpal Tunnel Provider’ and ‘What the Eff is Up With These Controls?’ options didn’t test well in focus groups. The game is a distant sequel to a 1980s NES release, which [...]

The Guns of 'Max Payne 3′ Might Have Been Worth the Nine Year Wait

Alex Riviello — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:30:48 +0000

Max Payne knows his way around firearms. ‘Max Payne 3′ sees the return of Rockstar Games’ famous character. In the nine years since we last saw him Max’s character has been through a rough patch, to put it mildly. His addiction to painkillers and alcohol worsened and due to some troubles he ended up leaving [...]

'Angry Birds Space' Review

Alan Tsang — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:25:07 +0000

Developer Rovio has spared no expense promoting the latest iteration of their billion dollar franchise since announcing Angry Birds Space last month. An aggressive marketing campaign, involving big names you don’t usually associate with video games (such as NASA and National Geographic), promises an epic new space adventure for the Birds to embark on. But, does it live up to the hype?

'I Am Alive' Game Review

Alex Riviello — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:30:50 +0000

I’m about halfway through a dark subway tunnel when I realize I’ve been here before. I had ended up back in the dark, dirty depths after nearly being asphyxiated in the dust storm currently raging outside, one of the many dangerous things in this new, post-apocalyptic world. I haven’t been in the city for a year since the disaster and the streets are still very familiar to me, but I never expected the subways to trigger a memory. But this one was more recent- I had been here only hours before. In fact, I realized that I had helped a starving woman at the end of the tunnel, giving her the food cans that she so desperately needed.

'Mass Effect Infiltrator' Game Review for iPhone

Nick Romano — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:00:04 +0000

In the likely event you’re not like us and don’t have the time to invest hours (and we mean solid hours) of your life into killing as many aliens as you can muster in ‘Mass Effect 3’, you might want to take a gander at ‘Mass Effect Infiltrator.’

'Syndicate' Review

Alex Riviello — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:30:35 +0000

All of this has happened before, and will happen again. ‘Syndicate‘ has joined the rank of PC gaming classics like ‘Jagged Alliance,’ ‘Monkey Island’ and ‘X-Com,’ beloved titles who are getting modern remakes with varying degrees of success and faithfulness. Released on the PC in 1993, Syndicate is a real-time action/strategy game set in a [...]

'MLB 12: The Show' Game Review

Phil Villarreal — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:00:47 +0000

Like a grizzled veteran who rocks a shelf full of MVP trophies and is unthreatened by any up-and-comers on the farm system, ‘MLB 12: The Show‘ no longer has the eye of the tiger. Instead, it just coasts, does the awesome things you expect it to do and calls it a day.

'Street Fighter X Tekken' Game Review

Phil Villarreal — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:00:55 +0000

‘Street Fighter X Tekken’ reminds us of that bathtub scene in Billy Madison when Adam Sandler pits a bottle of shampoo and conditioner in a deathmatch. It’s nearly as ridiculous a proposition — and somehow just as fitting — to pit the two-dimensional, projectile-happy Street Fighters against the 3D shuffle-meisters from the world of Tekken.

We Don't Want to Wake Up from 'Alan Wake's American Nightmare' [REVIEW]

Phil Villarreal — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:00:11 +0000

The new trend is for game publishers with just-crazy-enough-to-work sequel ideas to release the games as bite-sized, stand-alone downloads that look and feel just like the disc-based games. That’s how ‘Red Dead Redemption’s’ straight-shooting cowboy John Marston ended up tangling with zombies in ‘Undead Nightmare’ and superhuman rail-surfer Cole Phelps of Infamous infamy ended up becoming a vampire in Festival of Blood.

Now half-crazy pulp fiction author Al

'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' Is a Fastball of an RPG [REVIEW]

Phil Villarreal — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:01 +0000

You met ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ and fell in love at first dragon bite. You gazed into its eyes and started to spend all your time together, questing looting and slaying. It was true love. Your torrid affair may have started off hot and heavy, but you two have since drifted apart as the [...]

Rejoice Old School Gamers Because 'NFL Blitz' is Back! [REVIEW]

Phil Villarreal — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:30:45 +0000

Part of the reason we limped out of college with a five-figure student loan debt were those hours spent at the student union arcade playing ‘NFL Blitz.’ Not only did the game shake us down for change — charging $.50 cents per football quarter, costing $2 to finish a whole game — but it also [...]

NCAA College Football Bowl Recap — Dec. 24-30

Wes Glinsmann — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:49:31 +0000

The second week of bowl season usually features some exciting games, and this year was no exception. Many of the games this week gave us wild plays, last-second finishes, great individual performances and, in the case of the Alamo Bowl, the kind of unstoppable offense that would make Bo Jackson in Super Tecmo Bowl proud. Here are all the highlights from the last week in college football.

El Paso's Best Rock of 2011 – As Voted by You!

Johnnie Walker — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:30 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we asked you to tell us what you thought the best rock to come out in 2011 has been. We were blown away by your response, and you have created KLAQ's Countdown list for the year. We have the entire list for you now, as played on KLAQ over the New Year's Weekend!

The Best El Paso Area Concerts – As Voted By You!

Johnnie Walker — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:51:53 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we asked you guys to tell us what the best new rock from 2011 is, and we also wanted to know what you thought the best concerts from the past year were. You guys responded big for us, and now we are proud to present you with YOUR list of the top concerts from 2011!

Our 'Rear in Review' Displays The Year's Best Butts — Morning Eyegasm [PICTURES]

Chris Illuminati — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:20 +0000

The year is coming to a close and year-end lists are a plenty. We’ve been seeing a ton of ‘Year in Review’ articles but we’ve decided to go one better. We present the ‘Rear in Review,’ a look back at some of the best butts from this past year. We’ve also sprinkled in a couple [...]

GWAR Review Steven Spielberg's 'War Horse'

Jeff Giles — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:25:27 +0000

You wouldn’t necessarily know it from listening to songs like ‘The Insidious Soliloquy of Skulhed Face’ or ‘The Master Has a Butt,’ but the members of GWAR are apparently huge film buffs. Well, okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch — but that didn’t keep lead singer Oderus Urungus and rhythm guitarist Balsac the Jaws of Death from reviewing Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ recently.