In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
13 Mar 2011How do you make trench warfare fun? With giant mechs of course. At least that’s the thinking behind Trenched, the new XBLA game from Double Fine, which actually plays nothing like trench warfare and is all the better for it.
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
13 Mar 2011I love The Behemoth. I love its quirky-cute art style, I love its casually super-violent gameplay, and I love its emphasis on cooperative gaming. That’s why I was so excited to see the arcade booths that The Behemoth set up at PAX displaying its latest title, BattleBlock Theater, a game I’ve been drooling over ever [...]
In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
12 Mar 2011One of my main goals at PAX East this year was to play Brink, the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Splash Damage, since my fellow GameHounders had made such a big deal out of it at PAX Prime last year. After finally getting my hands on a PS3 version of the game, I can safely say [...]
In: Articles by Anthony McGill
12 Mar 2011Warner Bros. has taken the Mortal Kombat series back to its roots in the truest sense. The only Mortal Kombat games I’ve ever really been into were Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 on the SNES. Thankfully, developer NetherRealm Studios embraced the series’ golden age and made some great choices in recreating a classic gameplay and [...]
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
12 Mar 2011Hey, StarCraft fans, you know how awful it was to wait for the sequel to be released? While strategy games have never really been my thing, I’ve had to wait almost as long for a sequel to American McGee’s Alice, and now that the wait is almost over, I confess, I feel your pain. Alice: [...]
In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
11 Mar 2011You’re sitting in the back of a truck, across from your three squadmates who look exhausted and lost in thought. Their heads hang down, swaying and bouncing with their gear and guns as the truck rumbles along. Suddenly on of them speaks, “I just realized I forgot to pay my taxes.” So begins the live [...]
In: Podcasts by Edie Sellers
3 Mar 2011Get out your ball gags and your leather masks, kids! It’s time for the GameHounds Podcast — or as it was almost dubbed this week, the Gimpcast. Curious what we mean? Just listen. You’ll understand. This week, Nick Dinicola, Holy Goalie, and Edie Sellers hit the past week’s news like it was Bruce Willis in [...]
In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
2 Mar 20112011 is already off to a big start as far as game releases go, and it shows no signs of slowing down, so it’s understandable if you can’t find the time to go back to some of those 2010 game you were meaning to play. I know I haven’t. So in the interest of helping [...]
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