Portable Gaming Revolution

  Kratos is stunned: there isn’t a flock of identical zombies… After the short and sweet opening cinema detailing the you-whomp-‘em-Persian-guards objective, you’ll become immediately aware that the tried and true hack-‘n-slash formula is in full, familiar force in Ready At Dawn’s God of War: Chains of Olympus. Fortunately, that means loads of enemies on [...]

It’s a rare event that the sequel to a fan favorite bests the original. There are some recent examples where this has happened, but more often then not you’ll usually end up with just more of the same or even worse, an upsetting bastardization of the original product. When I heard that Q Entertainment was [...]

Tomb Raider created a storm when it first debuted in 1996. It’s revolutionary state-of-the-art graphics, innovative gameplay, thrilling music and involving storyline made it an instant hit. And Lara Croft, the game’s heroin, won the hearts and minds of gamers worldwide for reasons that won’t be discussed here. ;) But after a series of disappointing [...]

Field Commander generated a lot of hype when it was first announced. Its similarity to Advanced Wars is probably one of the main factors for all the hype. Many gamers loved Advanced Wars for its simple gameplay and cartoon-ish graphics. Of coarse, when all the Advanced Wars lovers such as myself heard that Sony Online [...]

It’s not often that you get a game centered solely on a popular sidekick. I mean you never see anything starring just Robin or Mini Me out there. When the geniuses at Ready at Dawn studios saw the small and sleek PSP, they saw it as the perfect platform for a game starring the wisecracking [...]

One of the first things I realized about my PSP usage was the need for a decent pair of headphones. I love to play with the sound turned up, but am usually playing in public or around others who would not necessarily like to be disturbed. I had tried a fair number of earbuds and [...]

Unique games are few and far between on our beloved PSP. Just walk through your local EBGames and you’ll see rows and rows of ports and conversions. Not to say that it’s a bad thing. There is definitely a place for portable versions of ones console favorites. It’s just that playing the odd original gem [...]

If you were a gamer growing up in the 80s and 90s like I was, you would definitely recognize the name Mega Man. The little Blue Bomber has been in countless different games starting out with the original series in 1987, on to the X series, redone in 3D on the Playstation and even played [...]

If you’ve played the PS2 version of this franchise then you’ll be facing the same game. Something about two teams of little men kicking balls in my pants scared me, but I was wrong. World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 was a surprise on the PSP that I never seen coming. First and foremost, the game [...]

This game was Developed and Distributed by Capcom and is Rated T for Teen. With the Release of the arcade game Street Fighter 2 in 1991, Capcom single-handedly changed the way we play games. The popularity of arcade gaming was on a decline, and the gaming public needed a shot in the arm to maintain [...]

It was only a matter of time that there would be a game that would measure your intelligence by simply playing it. The time is now, PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient. Is it going to be a mass of questions and riddles? Or does it comprise of a series of equations and algorithms. Slow down a [...]

Welcome to memory lane, where real gamers would stand hours on end at their favorite arcade game. Dropping quarter after quarter of happiness, trying to make their name last forever as the high score. For those who grew up with the Nintendo 64 or the Playstation, you wouldn’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking [...]