With any great year in gaming, there are always those oh so memorable moments that instantly come to mind when thinking about our favorite releases. Nothing inspires moments of “Hey…remember (insert game here), that (insert moment here) was insane!” quite like a good boss battle; for applicable games of course. What makes a truly “good” boss battle you may wonder? We should consider not only how challenging they are, but how significant, original, and just plain fun they are as well....

As we enter the final weeks of the year, it is hard to deny that 2011 will not be remembered among the upper echelon of years in the history of this relatively young medium. The year started strong with the likes of Dead Space 2, Portal 2 and L.A. Noire before developing into a summer of quality downloadable software on Xbox Live and PSN and finally maturing into a fall season the likes of which has rarely been seen, even for those of us who have been gaming since the infant years of the...

This game really doesn’t require any kind of introduction. Anyone who hasn’t played Rocksteady’s big break out GOTY Contender of 2009 Batman: Arkham Asylum by now needs very much to climb out from under the rock in which they live, and once they pick up Asylum they need to immediately play Arkham City. Rocksteady has taken the wildly successful formula of Arkham Asylum and placed it in an open world atmosphere, creating a new formula which is even more successful than its predecessor....

Spike TV’s annual Video Game Award show finally has its GOTY choices decided. 2011 has undoubtedly been an incredible year in gaming, especially in the last quarter with so many huge titles releasing mere weeks from one another. Many games are worthy of recognition, but only a handful can truly be considered game of the year material. Have those choices been made wisely though? To say yes, it goes without saying that a level of objectivity must be taken. So what made the cut, and which ones...

The open-world style has taken the gaming industry and community by storm since its popularization back in the early 2000s by titles such as Grand Theft Auto III and Spider-Man 2. Some of the most revered games in recent memory fall into this category, names like Red Dead Redemption and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion are just a few that come to mind when thinking of the wild success of sandbox gameplay. The variety of games that have succeeded using this formula is also a noteworthy mention,...