Wednesday, August 24 2011
The Five Games That Actually Should Be on the Nintendo 3DS
What 3-D is good for is salaciousness and action, some things that the crop of 3-D games launched with the 3DS are largely bereft of.
Monday, January 25 2010
Dark Void
An homage to the pulp sci-fi of the 50s, the Void is a fascinating world, so that makes it all the more painful to watch as this new universe is wasted so completely.
Friday, May 15 2009
Resident Evil 5
Though Resident Evil 5 had the difficult task of following its critically acclaimed predecessor, it largely succeeds by changing relatively little.
Thursday, October 30 2008
Mega Man 9
Arun Subramanian looks at the purest bit of nostalgia yet released for the modern consoles.
Thursday, August 14 2008
1942: Joint Strike - Arcade Nostalgia in HD
Capcom's 1942: Joint Strike gets the Checkpoints treatment, courtesy of Arun Subramanian.
Friday, June 13 2008
Okami (Wii Version)
Not only does it not make sense for Okami to look any other way, but moreover, it makes no sense for any other game to look like Okami.
Friday, May 2 2008
Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4 intermittently strives for a kind of high-Gothic camp, but it jumps willy-nilly into steampunk, lasers-and-robots future shock, and lost-civilization exoticism.
Friday, March 28 2008
Devil May Cry 4
The Devil May Cry series takes neither violence nor sex seriously, intending to see both as merely the vehicle to a very basic form of visual stimulation.
Thursday, March 27 2008
An Axis of Evil to Get Behind
In this edition of Checkpoints, we blast off with Rocketmen: Axis of Evil.
