Fans of the “metroidvania” and 2.5D style of games rejoice! Shadow Complex will fulfill your side-scrolling, item-scouring needs faithfully. Gamers who aren’t familiar with these types of games or just don’t like them, however, may be best suited trying out a demo before purchasing the game

The finalists from XNA’s Dream-Build-Play contest are featuring their games at PAX this weekend. Dream-Build-Play is a competition for independent game developers to create games for the Xbox 360 using the XNA Game Studio software. This year there were 350 entries from more than 100 countries. First place wins $40,000 while second place gets $20,000. [...]

Participants at this year’s PAX have the opportunity to check out a 10-minute demo of BioShock 2 and I tell ya, it doesn’t disappoint. The game takes place several years after the first BioShock. The demo starts off with you waking up and finding out that you’re a Big Daddy. Yes, you get to play [...]

The 11th annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) starts today in lovely downtown Seattle. Over the next three days, throngs of gamers will fill the halls of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, sampling upcoming games, participating in tournaments, and attending special events. Yours truly will bring a few previews, pics, interviews, and news from [...]

If you’ve seen Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know how epic those films were. You may ask yourself, “Self, how much more awesome can those films be?” Well, try watching it with a full orchestra performing the score live. On October 9 and 10, Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning score from the [...]

If you happen to know anyone who looks like an incredibly hot, leggy bespectacled babe with extremely long brown hair, then give SEGA and Maxim a call since they may have a job for her. Or you can wake up from your daydream and continue reading this article. Anyway, the two companies are searching for [...]

We all have a collection somewhere in our homes. Old video games that we no longer play, crappy games that we received as presents and are still shrink wrapped, or games that GameStop can’t buy such as computer games. You want to get rid of these games but have been unsuccessful. Well, you’ll be able [...]

NCSoft and DC Comics have collaborated to create a limited edition comic book to promote the soon-to-be-released MMORPG Aion: Tower of Eternity. Not only will it come free with Aion purchases from GameStop (and Electronics Boutiques in Canada), but some copies will be available at this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo as well. Aion’s release date [...]

The highly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band will be getting a little help from their friends in terms of promotion. Brick-and-mortar electronics megachain Best Buy is planning a few events on September 9th, the game’s release date. Not to miss a chance for self-promotion, Best Buy will also be giving away 50 one-year memberships of [...]

Dashing pirate extraordinaire Guybrush Threepwood returns in the second episode of the (so far) successful Tales of Monkey Island series. Like other Telltale games, Tales of Monkey Island is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game divided into five mini-episodic games, with plans to release one each month. The first, Launch of the Screaming Narwhal, received many [...]