Action/Adventure, Strategy
Mirror’s Edge

Leap! Dodge! Slide! Flip! Run! RUN! Runrunrunfasterfasterfasteraaarrgghh— This, in a nutshell, sums up the life of Faith: Not, mind you, …

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, Shooter
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City

Two new GTA IV expansions have now morphed into their own standalone bundle. And more Liberty City mayhem ensues.

Rhythm/Music
Rock Band

Have you ever daydreamed about standing onstage with your best buds, shaking back a thick mane of bleached blonde hair …

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Puzzle
Dante’s Inferno

Do you know what shape this year’s most diabolical game comes wrapped in? A circle. Actually, nine circles. Abandon hope, …

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Grand Theft Auto IV

Polyester pants and a double knit shirt aren’t the usual soldier’s attire. Yet they’re Niko Bellic’s wardrobe of choice as …

Sports
MX vs. ATV Untamed

Sony’s PSP handheld console is a thing of beauty. I mean, this little gaming machine’s crystal clear images and rousing …

Rhythm/Music, Sim
Rock Band 2

Rock Band, the video game that took a Guitar Hero by the collar of his tattered T-shirt and set him …

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series—A New Frontier, Chapter One

This zombie game packs a surprising emotional wallop … but plenty of brain-busting, too.

Action/Adventure
Batman: The Telltale Series

The Telltale gamemakers take a swing at portraying Bruce Wayne’s dark side … with dark results.

Sim
Prison Architect

Amid all of this prison simulation’s would-be moralizing, players still must muddle through a lot of messy, M-rated material.

Action/Adventure, Arcade/Platform, Puzzle, Shooter
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

There’s a certain familiarity to what you do in a LEGO franchise game. And that’s just hunky-dory.

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
LEGO Marvel Avengers

There’s more mass destruction on display here than in, say, a Batman LEGO game of yesteryear. But at least the …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle, Shooter
Rise of the Tomb Raider

The newly rebooted Lara returns with bigger adventure and, unfortunately, bigger piles of corpses, too.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty: Black Ops III

The thing you don’t really get anymore with the Call of Duty games is any sense of, well, duty.