By Emily Balistrieri

Although Resident Evil: Revelations promises to include underwater enemies for the first time ever in the Resident Evil series, you will not get any of that action in the demo that was released last week. This is a pity, but it's free, so what are you going to do? The demo starts you, Jill Valentine, off in the awkward situation of waking up in someone else's bed. On a cruise ship. In the Medi...

By Brian Camp

The 14 th and 15 th Pokémon movies came to the U.S. in English-dubbed editions in December 2011 after attaining the second and third spots in the ranking of the year’s domestic box office hits in Japan (beaten only by Studio Ghibli’s latest, From Up on Poppy Hill ). Pokémon the Movie White: Victini and Zekrom was given single theatrical screenings at 388 theaters in the U.S. on the mornings of...

By Matthew Gburek

It may not be immediately apparent, but for all the seemingly minor iterations King of Fighters has gone through over the years, it is actually a deeply sophisticated series. Sure, it may have garnered a bit of flak for having reused so many of the same character sprites and animations for as long as it did, but itʼs important to remember that King of Fighters spent most of its life as an annua...

By Dave Riley

As someone who suffers the odd Bloody Mary nightmare, Corpse Party ’s opening scene holds an immediate resonance. A chanting ritual deposits a group of fun loving high school students in a collapsing school created by the psychic suffering of four murdered children. There is no way out. Someone screwed up the ceremony. They are doomed. Corpse Party started as an RPG Maker project in the mid-90...

By Dave Riley

Guardian Heroes , just about the last Treasure game without a retro remake, is finally on Xbox Live Arcade. With its release I figure we’re pretty much done with companies selling our nostalgia back to us. Shut off the Virtual Console (it was limping along anyway), close down the PSN. Aside from a conspicuously absent port of Chu-Chu Rocket, we’ve got everything we need. In a time before anyon...

By Kristina Potts

Time heals all wounds. In 1987, during the height of Nintendo's iron grip on the gaming populace, a publisher by the name of Rainbow Arts released Great Giana Sisters —a blatant, shameless clone of Super Mario Bros.— for the Commodore 64 and a multitude of other computer platforms. They even had the cojones to boldly exclaim, "The brothers are history!" Well, as the saying goes, payback is a s...

By Mike Dent

The live-action Tekken will go down in my book as a firm reminder of how filmmakers, if not people in general, aren’t taking chances any more. The much-hyped big screen take on the popular Namco fighting game franchise had the opportunity to do something to trounce its predecessors by delivering what most of the other fighting game movies should have, while bearing an actual likeness to the so...