How do you Solve a Problem Like Max Payne?

The man is a high-functioning alcoholic. He spends his nights drinking himself into oblivion while the light of day finds him planting heavy metals deep into the flesh of his enemies with the biologically-ingrained certainty of a fifth generation lead

Obligatory: Mass Effect 3 Ex Machina, Michael Bay, a demo

I’ll preface this post immediately: I am not Aram, writer of our many lists about things wrong with Mass Effect 2. Of the forty five items on those lists, I probably disagree with about thirty five of them. That being

Review: Pineapple Smash Crew

Thanks to Pineapple Smash Crew I have screamed at my computer more than any other game. These weren’t screams of rage, or frustration: they were exhortations. “No, Jools, keep away from the fire!” They were accompanied by pleading—“Okay, Roo, we

Direction of Uncharted Heavily Influenced by Xbox Shooters

How close was Nathan Drake to being an elf? An article in the 209th issue of Play revealed that Naughty Dog’s original plans for the Uncharted games were much different than the final product. Apparently, the Playstation 3 exclusives were

Capsized Review

If I had to use one word to describe Capsized, an indie action platformer, it would be beautiful. Everything in the game is hand drawn, from the pulsating environments and enemies that inhabit them to the illustrated comic panels that

Whoever wrote the ending to Red Dead Redemption is one dumb cowpoke

In which Rockstar chooses to whistle Dixie. I finished Red Dead Redemption and it was a fairly fun game. Despite excessive horse riding, I enjoyed myself. Then I got to the end and I never wanted anything to do with

Piping hot Mass Effect 3 details emerge

My favorite things about Game Informer exclusives is that they try so hard to keep things secret, and then everything is blown open and their well thought out feature (as well thought out as Game Informer gets) is reduced to