The Motorola RAZR is a versatile, useful, stylish cellphone experience. With plenty of bonus features, such as a built-in camera, downloadable content (such as wallpapers, screensavers, ringtones and sounds), the RAZR sports anything a modern cellphone owner could possibly want. With great reception, a vibrant display, amazing battery life and easy-to-use layouts, any cellphone owner will be ha...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a traditional "point and click" adventure game for the Nintendo DS handheld system. You play as Phoenix Wright, a fledgling attorney on the eve of his first case. When a close friend and colleague is murdered, he sets out on a journey to find the murderer and solve the case. The display and animation of the game is vibrant and well-detailed and the atte...

Lost in Blue 2, sequel to the criminially underrated Lost in Blue, is an adventure game for the Nintendo DS handheld system. In the game, you are one of two people thrown overboard during a storm that sinks your cruise ship. The object of the game is to survive and, eventually, escape the island, upon washing onto it's shore. The game itself is very rewarding and intuitive and uses the Nint...

Planescape: Torment is an action-RPG for the PC. Made by renowned game developers Black Isle (Who also created the hit Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series of games), Planescape is a little bit different from the rest of Black Isle's catalogue. While the game runs on the Infinity Engine and uses a Dungeons & Dragons ruleset, the game is very much so based on storyline, rather than ...

Psychonauts is a platformer for the Xbox and PC. Made by Tim Schaffer, creator of cult-hit adventure game Grim Fandango for the PC, Psychonauts is his newest creation, fresh from the mental asylum. You play as Raz, a young new recruit in a summer camp for for the gifted. Much like X-Men's Academy for Mutants, the camp is used to train psychic young children as mental warriors, Psychonauts. ...

Final Fantasy XII is the newest game in the long-running hit series of RPGS from Square-Enix (Formerly Square) for the Playstation 2. The game is certainly not a return to form. Square, abandoning it's previous ways of combat in an RPG, have totally revamped the system to be very akin to their hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XI Online. The game's scale is as epic as expected for an RPG, if onl...

The name Grand Theft Auto should be well-known to all gamers and most non-gamers as a series of ultra-violent, explicit sandbox-style games created by the infamous Rockstar Games. San Andreas, the latest big hit in the series, is nothing short of what is to be expected. San Andreas itself is massive and is much more easily traversed with one of the games hundreds of vehicles. Why not listen to ...

Fable is an action-rpg from the famous (or infamous) Lionhead studios. Why infamous? Lets just say that the developers are truly innovative, with great ideas and big mouths. There was a lot of hype that Fable did not live up to. Most people who hate the game cite it's lack of all the things that were promised (such as your character and the world around you aging in real-time), but those wh...

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is a return to form for Japanese RPGs. The combat system and story are extremely traditional, being throwbacks to the simpler days of RPGs. First off, the game is absolutely gorgeous. Cell-shaded and drawn by the artists behind the Dragonball series of Japanese Anime, the game is vibrant and colorful and the influence of the Dragonball art style is ...

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is a sidescrolling action/RPG by Konami, released for the Nintendo DS handheld system. In this game, you take control of a relative of the Belmont family, from the previous Castlevania games. Dracula is dead, but his castle has mysteriously appeared in wartorn Europe. The gameplay of this installment of Castlevania is pretty traditional with a few new twists. Explo...

The Condemned is an action film starring Stone Cold Steve Austin, of WWE fame, and Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). In this film, a television producer has assembled a cast and crew for an island death-match streamed live over the internet for gorehound fans around the world. The twist being that the cast are 10 deathrow convicts from all over the world. With explosives strap...

"Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent." - Nick Naylor, in the fictional black comedy novel Thank You For Smoking. The novel is a hilarious satire on the tobacco and, in an interesting standpoint, anti-tobacco industries. The book bites hard at both sides, with a seeming, and possibly subjective, stance on total neutrality. Thank You For...

The Nintendo DS is Nintendo's newest foray into dominating the handheld game system world. As expected, and as usual, they continue their grip on the handheld world. All the favorites return to the system: Mario, Yoshi, Link, Zelda, Dracula, the whole crew is here. With tight, responsive controls and plenty of innovative new features such as touchscreen capability, a microphone, WiFi, and p...

Dead Rising is an action/RPG for the Xbox 360 game system. In this sandbox-style game, you play Frank, a freelance Journalist out for the big scoop. Your trusty helicopter pilot drops you into a military quarantined city where all the citizens are mysteriously "rioting." Upon being dropped into the mall, you find these unruly citizens are actually denizens of the walking dead. Armed w...

Two Worlds is a sandbox RPG for the Xbox 360. This game, published by a fledging European gaming company, is reminiscent of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion in style and concept and reminiscent of a trainwreck that sprayed candy across the country-side upon explosion. This game is, without a doubt, rough around the edges. It can be mercilessly dificult, the voice acting ranges from bad to worse, and...

Call of Juarez is an action first-person-shooter (FPS) for the Xbox 360. The newest in a very short vein of Western games to come about in the past few years, following in the footsteps of Red Dead Revolver, Dead Man's Hand, and GUN. Call of Juarez has you playing as a young Billy Candle, searching for the gold of Juarez, trying to find out who murdered his family, and running from his Uncl...

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, or GRAW, is an action/tactical FPS for the Xbox 360 game system. You take the role of an Advanced Warfighter, a soldier deck out with the best defense and offense the futuristic military can provide. This game gives a good mix of tactical and FPS and adding in a dash of team-based strategy. You can go it solo, or have a team with you. And the game balances the ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns is the second novel from acclaimed best-selling author Khaleid Houssini, the first being the soon-to-be-film adapation, The Kite Runner. In "A Thousand Splendid Suns," the reader follows the story of young Mariam, bastard daughter of a depressed housewife and a rich father who lives with his wives and daughter in a much richer neighborhood of war-torn Afghanis...

"If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor," is the autobiography of legendary B-Movie star, Bruce Campbell. Well known from his work in Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, he details his life from young Michigan boy, fighting with his brothers and being socially awkward around girls, through the making of low-budget cult classic Evil Dead and onwards into Hollywood...

The Darkness is a first person shooter for the Xbox 360 game system from the makers of The Chronicles of Riddick. What do both of these games have in common? Their criminally underrated status. In The Darkness, you take the role of young mafia recruit Jackie, whoes bloodline just so happens to be attached to a dark entity older than time that survives on darkness and death. It's a good time...