Games and Junk

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review

Platforms: Xbox 360 (reviewed), Playstation 3, and PC Blood Dragon is quite the sales pitch for Far Cry 3. After spending some time with them, the first two Far Cry games didn’t do anything that made me latch onto them. Hell, I never even gave the third entry a try. After putting in six [...]

May 18th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Nun Attack Review

Platforms: PlayStation Vita (reviewed), iPhone/iPad, Android Where do I even begin with Nun Attack? I guess first and foremost I should mention the story. The game is set in a world where prayers are no longer answered and evil is running rampant. Apparently the only solution to this problem is for a group of nuns [...]

May 17th, 2013 | Anthony Gore

Dragon Fantasy: Book One Review

Platforms: PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Playstation 3 (reviewed) and Playstation Vita (reviewed) If you tend to avoid iOS games, there’s a good chance you had never heard of Dragon Fantasy prior to it coming to PSN. Dragon Fantasy is a tribute, right down to its namesake, to older Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy (see what [...]

May 16th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Raiden Legacy Comes to PC and Mac

If you’ve been itching for some classic shooter action that isn’t in the bullet hell style, Raiden Legacy released today on PC and the Mac App Store. This collection contains the same games as the Xbox 360 Raiden Fighters Aces (Raiden, Raiden Figters 1, Raiden Fighters 2, and Raiden Fighter Jet) and the collection that released [...]

May 16th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

You Like References? Dragon Fantasy’s Got Them

My review of Dragon Fantasy will be up shortly, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share some of the more funny lines I’ve found in the game. Some of the enemies are quite cleverly named and the guys at Muteki made some nice puns. I grabbed a few of them while playing the Vita [...]

May 15th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Gran Turismo 6 Coming This Holiday

We speculated on the podcast a couple of months back and now Sony is ready to cough up an official announcement of Gran Turismo 6. If you’ve been looking for cars to get your drive on (I’m sorry, that was terrible), Gran Turismo 6 is headed our way sometime this holiday season for the Playstation [...]

May 15th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Raiden Legacy Comes to PC and Mac

May 16th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Gran Turismo 6 Coming This Holiday

May 15th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies Coming To The West

In a slightly surprising bit of news, Capcom has confirmed that the newest entry in the Ace Attorney series, Dual Destinies, will be coming to the 3DS in the US and Europe this fall. It does come with a slight catch: it’s only going to be available as a eShop download. Christian Svensson, Capcom’s Senior [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Dragon’s Crown Gets An Artbook And Official Cover Art

Have you not had enough of staring at the…unique…art of Dragon’s Crown? Well, you have the chance to stare at the disproportionate figures of the Witch and Amazon without that pesky need of having your Vita, Playstation 3, or any device capable of connecting to the internet. Atlus is giving a 64 page, softcover artbook [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

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Zelda Preoders Are Go!

Spotted on Twitter by @NintendoTweet, it would seem that preorders are ready for, uh, preordering on Amazon for A Link to the Past 2 for the 3DS. Also spotted was the HD remake of Wind Waker for the Wii U. While you’re there, why not grab yourself a copy of Hyrule Historia? It’s considerably less [...]

May 6th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Plants vs. Zombies 2 Announcement

There has been much discussion as to when PopCap would finally release a sequel to their massively popular and addictive tower defense game, Plants vs. Zombies. Well that question has finally been answered with a new trailer (seen below) and an announcement on the official Plants vs. Zombies Facebook page. Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s [...]

May 6th, 2013 | Anthony Gore

You Like References? Dragon Fantasy’s Got Them

May 15th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Shepard’s Descent Into Madness

Well, I thought I was done writing about Mass Effect. I guess not so much. I stumbled upon this interesting little piece of audio below on Tumblr this morning. It’s all of the whispers that you hear in Shepard’s nightmares throughout Mass Effect 3. Really is quite creepy when you listen to it. In case [...]

May 9th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Revisiting The Dark World

In an interview with CNET, Eiji Aonuma said that the Dark World would be making a return in A Link to the Past 2. While a fairly welcome surprise, I have to wonder how the Dark World will fit into the game’s story. In the original A Link to the Past, once Link has defeated [...]

May 4th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Dear John

Hi there, it’s been a while since we’ve chatted, just you and I. I thought it was time we had a little sit down and chat. It’s nothing serious. No, don’t cry. Seriously, we’re not breaking up. Not even taking a break. We’re just in need of a change. Our ambitions were high when we [...]

March 10th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Ain’t No Mood Like A Metal Gear Mood

I’m currently writing up my Eight to Consider for the Playstation 3. Spoiler alert, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots makes the cut for me. Guess what? Metal Gear Solid Rising comes out tomorrow too! I don’t know if I’m going to say I’m crazy excited for this. Taking a “tactical espionage action” [...]

February 19th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

The Devil’s in the Details

I was recently looking for a new lock screen and background for my phone and decided I wanted to go with a Street Fighter theme. I typed in “Ken vs Ryu wallpaper” into Google, hit images, and scrolled through the hundreds of images that came up. The one that ended up as my lock screen [...]

January 26th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Magic: The Gathering Set Impressions – Dragon’s Maze

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since I started doing these impressions, but here we go again, yet another Magic set is on the horizon. This time it’s Dragon’s Maze, the final set in the Return to Ravnica block. Unlike the previous two sets, Dragon’s Maze is going to feature all [...]

May 3rd, 2013 | Anthony Gore

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Easy Mode – Tactics Ogre – Part Two

Now we come to the thing that I alluded to in the previous entry: how the remake handled death. Initially, some long-time fans of the game reacted to the multiple ways the game changed its approach on character death less than favorably. In the original version, permadeath was a reality that was tough to live [...]

April 8th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Xbox Live Indie Games: Volume 3

It’s been nearly eight months since I last covered Xbox Live indie games and there are a couple reasons for this absence. First off, with the recent news that Microsoft has decided to kill off XNA, XBLIG is all but finished and surely won’t make a return next generation, so continuing to cover this half [...]

March 26th, 2013 | Anthony Gore

GAJ Confessional: Aliens

Here’s the thing, this is normally an anonymous feature. A way for us to get out a confession of sorts and using the GAJ Staff posting as a screen to make it easier for us to come clean. The only problem with this is that once I’ve gotten through this and make good on it, [...]

March 16th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Eight to Consider: Xbox Live Arcade Games

Anthony Gore 8. Fez With each passing day I seem to like Fez just a little bit more. When it was first released I leaned far closer towards disliking it than I did to liking it, but I soon found out that Fez is the type of game that gets better with subsequent playthroughs. I [...]

March 10th, 2013 | GAJ Staff

Easy Mode – Tactics Ogre – Part One

There are a few games and game series that have always been labeled as hardcore. Some of them have been getting either remakes or sequels that have been adding mechanics to them that make them more accessible. While the “hardcore” players will bemoan these changes, saying it’s ruining their favorite games, the less hardcore players [...]

February 26th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Quick Stealth: Fearless

Fearless is a game created in 72 hours by Ben L. Grauer aka Drag0nSix; it’s a stealth action game in which the player (a blue guy) must avoid enemies (red guys) and collect power-ups. Each power-up (represented by a glowing blue sphere) grants the player rudimentary video game ability, I found the jump sphere first, [...]

May 12th, 2013 | Luke Maxwell

Fear the Future. Turn on a Light.

I’ve had a tough go of coming up with some stuff to write about lately. Who wants to read nothing but reviews from a D-list reviewer? A few people, but that’s not why you come here. Maybe it is. Who am I to judge? I’m going to start up an experiment that I hope to [...]

January 15th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Portable Kirby…IN 3DS

Kirby’s Dream Land Platforms: GameBoy (1992), 3DS Virtual Console (2011) Price: $3.99 Dream Land is Kirby’s very first outing and just so happened to be on Nintendo’s first handheld console as well. The gameplay is mostly what you would expect in a 2D platformer of the early 90s, along with a few additional features. The [...]

November 8th, 2012 | Scott Romero

10 Kirbies, One Game

I don’t know if I’ve raved about my love of the DS in a review yet…but man! Do I love the DS. Games like Kirby Mass Attack are the reason. While the game itself was not incredibly challenging, it was adorable, used the touch screen of the DS to its full abilities, can be found [...]

November 6th, 2012 | Vanessa Maestas

Not Your Grandma’s Crocheting Material

To say I was a little apprehensive about Kirby’s Epic Yarn would be making it sound like I had any interest in this game to begin with. As I would look through stores searching for a bargain that wasn’t in the ads, I would always pass right over certain games. Epic Yarn somehow got lumped [...]

November 5th, 2012 | Jason Arriola

Proteus

Open your eyes and walk. Walk and discover, discover and learn. Proteus is a very simple game, you only use a handful of keys to play it, WASD to move and F9 to take screenshots. Proteus, in many respects, casts you in the role of an anthropologist, or a DSLR-carrying tourist exploring its procedural island [...]

September 16th, 2012 | Luke Maxwell

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review

May 18th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Nun Attack Review

May 17th, 2013 | Anthony Gore

Dragon Fantasy: Book One Review

May 16th, 2013 | Jason Arriola

Germinator Review

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita (reviewed) Some have said (and continue to say) that the Vita’s lineup of games is weak and is the reason why the handheld hasn’t taken off in popularity. While this might hold true for some, I’d be mostly inclined to disagree with that statement. The one exception to that would [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Anthony Gore

BioShock Infinite Review

Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC (reviewed) I’m a little late to reviewing Bioshock Infinite… and for good reason. If you had asked me about Infinite while I was playing it I would have given you two thumbs up, a big smile and a bear-hu. I would’ve gushed at you about how Bioshock Infinite [...]

May 8th, 2013 | Luke Maxwell

Gunman Clive Review

Platforms: iPhone, Android, and Nintendo 3DS (reviewed) Nintendo systems never have a shortage of solid platformers. With Mario already making an appearance on the 3DS twice in its short life, it’s probably hard for some non-Nintendo franchises to get some of the mindshare of its consumers. Even more difficult is overcoming the lack of acknowledgement [...]

May 6th, 2013 | Jason Arriola