Scott Jones's posts

When the Alien aliens and the Predator no longer had the individual clout to generate box-office, they were paired…

Claiming that the game Dante’s Inferno was inspired by The Divine Comedy is like claiming that the hot dog was…

Muscle March
Creator: Namco Bandai
Platform: Nintendo Wii (WiiWare)
Price: $5 (500 Nintendo points)
It seems…

Serious Sam games always felt like they were made in about 12 minutes by inebriated chimps: “Okay, put one big…

Sporting bad tattoos, skull helmets, and jag-off names, Tyson and Salem return as mercenaries for hire in what could…

It’s a testament to success of the NES-era Duck Hunt that 25 years later, games like Remington Great American Bird…

It was a truncated year in games, as publishers pushed their late-2009 releases into the next calendar year. Whether…

We keep coming back to videogames for the same reasons we always have. Or do we? Games in 2009 look considerably…

The original Assassin’s Creed was an overly ambitious hodgepodge of gameplay ideas that never really cohered into a…

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 arrives all hammer and tongs, prepared to defend its title as the sole other title…

Even if you’ve avoided the Smackdown Vs. Raw games for the past few years, this year’s version is reason enough to…

Sony’s latest incarnation of its handheld looks like the “If They Mated” result of a brief, unsatisfying, boozy…

How’s this for a quaint tableau: a crackling woodstove, an old woman knitting in a rocking chair, and a young girl…

Squint a little while looking at the original Uncharted, and you’ll see it for what it really was: Tomb Raider,…

Icycle
Creator: Damp Gnat
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Icycle hit the web around the same time as Canabalt, and as a…

During the dense opening credits of Batman: Arkham Asylum, as the Joker is being wheeled, Hannibal Lecter style,…

Spelunker Jason is exploring a cave when his date wanders ahead and stumbles upon the headquarters of a rogue…

Trying to review this year’s Madden NFL game is akin to getting back together with your ex every August and trying…

The inevitable game tie-in to the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra stars a series of super-soldiers with names so…

The sequel to arguably the best freebie pack-in game in 20 years arrives bearing a $50 price tag, 12 tropical-themed…