Mar 14, 2013 | Forbes
For those of us who are counting the days until BioShock: Infinite’s (B:I) release on March 26, we have twelve days to wait. Irrational Games has been keeping up the anticipation with trailer after trailer…including the most recent one, below, “False Shepherd.” I...
Mar 12, 2013 | Forbes
When Guild Wars 2 (GW2) came out, I jumped into it enthusiastically and played for several weeks. But life happens, as it does, and I’ve been only able to venture into Tyria intermittently. When I did play, I noticed changes, but I didn’t spend much time...
Mar 12, 2013 | Forbes
There’s no getting around it: Lara Croft, the star of the Tomb Raider series, is a genuine action hero with ginormous breasts, which has made her both a symbol of female self-empowerment and an object of sexual desire. But in Tomb Raider (2013), Lara has been rebooted...
Mar 11, 2013 | Forbes
Mario* is the hero of Donkey Kong, a 1981 arcade game about an Italian plumber who must rescue his sweetheart Pauline from the ill-tempered, poorly named giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. But every time he reaches his distressed damsel, Donkey Kong whisks her away. But what...
Mar 9, 2013 | Forbes
“I hate tombs,” Lara Croft says as she’s standing in the middle of, whaddya know, a tomb. Although we’ve seen many a crypt in her future, Lara in Tomb Raider (2013) is a younger, more squeamish version of herself in this thoroughly enjoyable origin story. Our tomb...