Ten Game Franchises That Could Use A Reboot

Ninja Theory's DmC was released not too long ago, and surprise, surprise, gamers are still complaining about the series' reboot just as much as they were back in 2009 when it was first announced. From gripes about Dante's attitude being too different to the game's easy-peasy difficulty, their grievances have been made loud and clear. But developers shouldn't let such a backlash to what actually turned out to be a pretty swell game completely turn them off from the idea...

This Week's Gaming Buzz: Silent Hill: Downpour, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Mass Effect 3

BEAR213 (Jose Soto) i thought that Resident Evil: ORC would at lest be a good decent game but once again @SlantSixGames has droped the ball Big Time!! On 21-3-2012 19:50:45 from web Andreas Asimakis: I couldn't agree more. What should have been a memorable return to Raccoon City turned out to be a half-assed squad-based shooter that is ultimately...

Revival Selection: Does Capcom's Latest Resident Evil Project Signify a Franchise Reboot?

Last week,  Capcom announced a Resident Evil title known as Revival Selection. When I first heard of this,  I was a tad giddy, only because the hopeful gamer in me assumed that Capcom had wizened up was and that it was either remaking Resident Evil 2 & 3,  or that it  would be recreating the original games with Resident evil 5’s engine. Unfortunately, I was wrong on both counts. Resident Evil 4, while my favorite Resident Evil game, is being subjected to yet another port in the...

The Top 10 Most Violent Games Ever Played

Throughout the years, violence and gaming are words that have become practically synonymous, largely in part to the medium receiving so much criticism from worrisome parents, ignorant politicians, and wannabe psychologists. And while it is an undeniable fact that game developers have churned out some pretty graphic content, it leaves us to wonder: which games are the most violent? Today, we count down the Top 10 Most Violent Games.  Some of these games use violence to tell a story, and others...

Operation Raccoon City: Do We Need To Revisit The Doomed Town Again?

Former SOCOM developer Slant Six Games is developing a new Resident Evil for the 360 and PS3, according to an alleged report from the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. This new game, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, would take place between Resident Evil 2 and 3, making the player not as a survivor of the T-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City, but as members of Umbrella Security forces. I like the idea of a RE playing as someone who works for Umbrella—in fact I think it's a...