It must be difficult to create games based on existing properties. If you tell a story that happens alongside the main tale, you end up with a game that feels a bit hollow no matter how fun it is because at the end of the day it’s the main characters who save the world (Lord of the Rings: The Third Age). If you retell a story that your audience already knows, you get criticized for retreading old ground (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith), and if you separate yourself from the main canon too much, your game had may as well be an IP all its own (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic). READ MORE
Using spatial relations to literally twist a simple puzzle game upside-down, Puzzle Dimension is the newest head-scratcher available for download on PSN. Playing as a golden ball, you are required to navigate floating platforms to collect flowers needed to open an exit portal. Limited to only rolling or jumping one square at a time, you learn quickly that a single misstep will mean a dive into the void, necessitating starting over from the beginning. READ MORE
Boulder Dash was first released on the on Atari 8-bit computers in 1984, and later released on other systems such as the Commodore 64 and ColecoVision, as well as being ported to the NES. The Commodore 64 version also made its way to the Virtual Console in 2008 and 2009 for Europe and North America respectively. Now, though, this classic computer game finally gets an update with new graphics and everything on Xbox Live Arcade. READ MORE
When thinking of Sony’s monkey-based Ape Escape series, ne normally pictures open environments, tons of monkeys to capture and 3D platforming. With the Move, Ape Escape tries to forgo the platforming part, as it ventures into the not-as-open-or-free world of rail shooters. READ MORE
It has been ten years of Harry Potter, and it all comes to an end with Deathly Hallows, Part 2. One of the biggest movie franchise of all-time has seen its ups and downs with video games, and EA Bright Light looks to go out with a bang. Can the boy wizard, Harry Potter, save the video game franchise from the horrid mess that was Deathly Hallows, Part 1? READ MORE
