Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing
Dragon Age: Origins

The latest fantasy role-playing adventure from the makers of the Baldur’s Gate games invites players into an intricate, engaging epic …

Combat, Strategy
Halo Wars

Halo is back. And it’s rated T! Gaming fingers are twitching, allowances are being saved, and scores of cajoling teens …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

If you’re as, um, mature as me, when you see the brand Warner Bros. you probably think of a Saturday …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Novelist Tom Clancy’s name has become synonymous with military action and espionage. His games are no exception.

Combat, Sports
Tekken 6

Muscles are flexing. Kicks are flying. Pugilists are pulling no punches. And pandas are passing gas. Tekken’s back in the …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Have you noticed how video games and movies seem to be borrowing from each other’s closets these days? You can …

Action/Adventure, Combat
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

Back in the summer of ’81, I walked into the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark quite by happenstance, knowing …

Action/Adventure, Combat
SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny

The SoulCalibur saga—with its exotic characters, odd spiritualism and mystical Soul Edge blades—has always been a little bit out there. …

Combat
Street Fighter IV

Of all the coin-operated arcade games that started life in the ’80s—tucked in the corner at your local Laundromat or …

Action/Adventure, Combat
God of War II

When the original God of War hit video game shelves a couple of years ago, with its arresting visuals and …

Combat, Sim
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

‘Ever since Tom Cruise lit the afterburners in Top Gun, the idea of life as a fighter jock has seemed …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle
Darksiders III

Sin is given flesh in this slashing apocalyptic game. But biblical answers ain’t in the script. (Or the same county.)

Combat
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

No story mode and a Fortnite-like multiplayer options change the CoD landscape … and not for the better.

Combat, Puzzle, Strategy
Into the Breach

Mix chess with futuristic mech battles against marauding monsters and you’ve got the gist of things with this PC title.

Arcade/Platform, Combat
Kirby Battle Royale

Kirby fans will likely love the little pink puffball’s latest minigame-filled contest.