If your into tactical simulation games and thrive on reliving history you will be amazed by Scourge of War: Gettysburg. Let’s take a closer look with an in-game review. (more…)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has just been released this week and has clinched the record for most sales in one day at $310 million. (more…)

College hoops continue on Xbox 360 with NCAA Basketball 09, which introduces several significant features to help distinguish it from its March Madness predecessors. First and foremost is the new gameplay engine based on the publisher’s NBA Live 09. New team-specific tendencies have been added to enhance the realism, and players can dictate the game’s tempo by slowing down or speeding up the on-court action as needed. To gauge your performance, you’ll hear real-time feedback and tips from actual NCAA coaches on the sidelines.

Someone has created a real life Space Marine Rhino from Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. This Rhino is awesome! It can smash cars by rolling over them and looks indestructible.

Major credit goes to the guy who designed and built this!

Take a look for yourself:

A one on one showdown in a Korean Starcraft tournament of Team CJ (The Best) vs Up Magic. CJ is one of the best, if not THE best Starcraft gaming team in the world. CJ is playing Zerg while Up Magic is playing Terran. Watch the player for Team CJ go to work, just ignore that it doesn’t have subtitles and focus on the gameplay. The Map is Carthage Savior.

Oh man this new Final Fantasy XIII looks simply amazing, I can’t wait for it to come out.

The graphics look stunning! The storyline looks very immersive as usual for the FF saga.

To all the doubters as to whether Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PC would be any good… you were sorely mistaken. This game takes it to the next level! For those of us with high end computers who do not yet have 300-400 dollar consoles, this is the next best thing.

The graphics in the game are astonishing, everything is smoothly rendered and all the cars and vehicles looks amazing. You need a 728MB graphics card to fully appreciate and run all the stellar graphics. Even if your not into graphics, the storyline is great. Much better than it’s predecessors. You don’t start out working for the mob, your more of an ex-soldier who ends up getting a nudge towards working with the underworld and it’s shady dealings. You come to the U.S. to check on your cousin and find out he’s not living the American dream that you thought he was. I won’t give away anything else about the plot, since it is phenomenal. There is a lot more depth of character and relational atmosphere. You are more connected, through mobile phones, internet, and sometime just bumping into new people outside of missions.
The game play has re-playability in mind. The map is huge with two extra areas to unlock, you have to find restaurants and comedy clubs in order to have them on your map. There is GPS to help you navigate your way through gigantic Liberty City. LC was always my favorite of the various locations throughout the GTA series. So a return to the old city is nostalgic, but it is way more immersible atmosphere than in the first Grand Theft Auto.

There are some return features and some that went away. You can still do Police Vigilante missions which are fun, but they made them more realistic. When you shooting at the criminals you will have a couple stars, but once you eliminate the suspects then your stars immediately go away. I don’t believe they have the taxi, EMT, or firefighter missions anymore. Either that or they are extremely hard to unlock.
The physics engine in the game is amazing! Your car move and reacts to turns and crashes with utter realism. Your car doesn’t explode if the engine isn’t hit, so if it is in the back and you smash the front, it won’t blow up. Also, your car doesn’t explode after a few crashes, like most cars in real life, it would take more than a few bumps and scratches to explode. The hand to hand fighting is life like as you block and throw punches and your opponents have a circle life meter. The gun fights I enjoy the best as now their is a ‘take cover’ option that make the gun fights realistic and last longer. Plus you have more accuracy when you crouch.

The game developers worked very hard to make the game realistic yet still fun for gamers. I have only tested the multiplayer a little, it seems to be all right, but I’ve heard a lot of gamers say it wasn’t up to their standards. This makes sense, as anyone can see most of the effort for GTA 4 must have gone into the single player mode.

This Blokus Board Game has become the new holiday craze! Blokus is a strategy board game that is easy to learn but is not so easy to win. Players put down transparent tetris shaped pieces onto the board trying to block their opponent. The only caveat to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board.

I’m sure this game sold a lot of units during Christmas. You can buy the board game at your local Wal Mart. There is also a free online version of the game that you can play multiplayer or single player. It sounds fun and I look forward to trying it out some time.

Well, you are either going to be in pure bliss or in pure agony depending on how you view World of Warcraft. Comcast has managed to kill WoW for the majority of the U.S. What occured was the lastest patches from Blizzard are being downloaded through BitTorrent. However, Comcast has decided to block BitTorrent because one can download free movies and games from them. Because the majority of WoW players use Comcast as their internet provider this kills the WoW game until Blizzard or someone else creates a solution. I can’t imagine their embarrassment if they have to ask someone else to “borrow their internet provider” so they can download a patch for WoW. Then they might realize how obsessed they are with a horrible game.

The Gears of War 2 combustible map pack is set for a 12AM pacific/3AM east time release today. The pack will add three new locales to the multiplayer mode including Flood, Fuel Station and Gold Rush! The pack is estimated to cost 800 Microsoft points. Go here to download the pack.