Contributor: Dave Dillard

The stands were full of parents. I cocked the bat over my 14-year-old shoulder, all aflutter at the plate and in fear of whiffing once more. This time, though, as the ball left the pitcher’s hand, its trajectory and speed just right, my scrawny arms fl …

The first thing I did when I heard about Marvel Ultimate Alliance was to go to the video game’s official Web site. I wanted to see if the superheroes I’d loved in my childhood had made the game’s cut. Specifically, I was looking for Vision from the Ave …

When the original Destroy All Humans! first hovered on the horizon, it was praised by some for an acerbic sense of humor and the way it satirically set 1950s-era sci-fi fare on its ear. Instead of focusing on an Earth-saving hero, the game’s creators s …

When I think of Nintendo’s DS, I rarely think M-rated games. It’s a platform for the younger set, right? Nope, not any more. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has just driven into town, kids. Sure, this isn’t the first “adult” game ever made for this ha …

This E-rated creation for PlayStation 3 reminds our game critic of days that were filled with cardboard boxes and anthills. Now the fun is on a screen.

The first time I ever happened upon a televised Ultimate Fighting Championship bout, two things immediately came to mind. The first was that these brutal, face-bashing, arm-torquing fights couldn’t possibly be fake. There was simply too much bleeding f …

Laser blasts & whirling blades part of this game’s future. But mostly it’s about things like disco-dancing bombs & laugh-out-loud one-liners.

Solomon once declared that there isn’t anything new under the sun. But people sure do keep trying to find something. I have a photographer friend who mixed his love of architecture with Lincoln Logs (and an artist’s eye) to create a miniature city. And …

Sixteen years ago, Mario and Co. first stomped on the gas pedal in an SNES game called ‘Super Mario Kart.’

Icy winds blow and menacing, marauding insectoid aliens encroach once more on the planet E.D.N. III. But there’s more than sci-fi gunplay at the heart of this Lost Planet.

The solid strategy of slipping through the shadows is dead and gone. This Gear grinds on blades and blood.

One masked man accused of treachery must beat the odds and save the kingdom. Or does he butcher everyone in vengeance and watch the world burn? It’s your choice.

Harry and his pals are back in cube form for one last puzzle-solving go-round. But what do LEGOs look like when a tale turns dark and cold?

This fourth Assassin’s Creed has more sharp blades than new revelations up its sleeve.

Capcom has rebooted a classic fighting contest. But rose-colored glasses only got our reviewer so far when he tried to step into the superhero boots of this wildly frenetic button-mashing mash-up.