I hate movie games. You can always count on insatiable, bloodsucking Hollywood greed to produce an awful and exploitative game experience—the kind of slapdash effort only afforded to titles developed in a quarter of the normally two- to three-year cycle most legit games receive.
Not far into Ju-On, your cell phone starts ringing. Without a word, you pull it out, look at the distorted picture on the screen and answer the call.
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Why isn’t there a Japanese role-playing game based on The Wizard of Oz?,” then congratulations: You’ve entered into minority status among all gamers everywhere.
Brutal Legend is an unlikely game. It looks like the deranged love child of renegade ex-Pixar animators and the editors of Heavy Metal (part of this is in fact true), with maybe a hint of Tim Burton’s stylized aesthetic, as well as a bit of Tolkien.
West Linn resident Rachel Baker-Reinertsen poses with a Depression-era photograph of herself and her parents outside of her father’s church in Dead Ox Flat, Ore.
So just what the hell is Scribblenauts, exactly? It’s a 2-D action puzzle game, for lack of a better term, with a whole dictionary-sized catalog of words you can choose to conjure.
Rayne Summers is a douche. No, really. He’s the kind of asshole you’d probably just want to punch in the face if you met him in real life.
For those keeping score, EA’s Need for Speed series has been through a lot of different iterations over the past few years, with varying degrees of success.
Arkham Asylum is video gaming’s Dark Knight.
And, goddamn, is this good news.
Little King’s Story wants you to think it’s cute. From the charming drawings on the box to the simple, childlike presentation when you boot up the disc, there’s little you take in that won’t make you go “awww.”