Contributor: Trent Hoose

Halo is back. And it’s rated T! Gaming fingers are twitching, allowances are being saved, and scores of cajoling teens are making their cases to still-reluctant parents. I just had to find out what this new addition to the franchise has up its heavily …

A meteor from some unknown point in space crashes to the surface of a small planet and scatters bits and pieces of red-hot space rock over the landscape and oceans. As the quickly cooling rocks sink into the depths they break open releasing tiny microb …

I was 19 when I stepped off a Port Authority ferry and saw the Big Apple in person for the first time. I had seen big cities before, but nothing even remotely like this. This was New York City, a metropolis with a capital M. There were so many places t …

The antihero union must be having a party. For we live in a day and age when even comic book superheroes can be edgy, dark and powder keg dangerous. Sure, you don’t mind that black-clad tough guy foiling the felons, but you wouldn’t want him renting yo …

Leap! Dodge! Slide! Flip! Run! RUN! Runrunrunfasterfasterfasteraaarrgghh— This, in a nutshell, sums up the life of Faith: Not, mind you, “a life of faith,” as in Bible studies, prayer and possibly a stay in a monastery, but “the life of Faith,” as in t …

Choices are what this combative role-playing sequel is all about. So we’re going to try to help you make one before you even start playing.

The 2010 entry in the long-running Metroid franchise fuses traditional third-person shooter elements with motion-controlled, first-person, sci-fi action.

Some people want to be doctors or lawyers or presidents when they grow up. The rest of us want to be superheroes. This MMO game wants to make our dreams come true.

Hogwarts Harry and his loyal band of wand-wielders get LEGO facelifts. Are the makeovers magical? Or merely muddled?

The makers of Grand Theft Auto have another hit on their hands after deciding to set their sights on the Wild West. If you play it, will you find its promised redemption? Or just wind up dead?

First released in Japan, this fantasy role-playing game has now been retooled for the rest of the gaming world. Maybe it worked better in its native tongue.