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Enchanted Arms for Xbox 360 (and now PS3) is an epic Japanese RPG featuring turn-based random encounters, a party of diverse characters and plenty of monsters to collect. This is the first and only Japanese RPG on Microsoft’s console and it’s above mediocre, but doesn’t rise to the bar set by so many Final Fantasy [...]

Many Tycoon games have allowed gamers to manage everything from railroads, theme parks to cruise ships and even prisons. Latest Tycoon game is Hospital Tycoon published by Codemasters. There already was a hospital management game (Theme Hospital, created by Bullfrog in 1997): now 10 years later, can another hospital simulation do better?

Unfortunately this game isn’t [...]

Sam & Max Hit The Road released back in 1993 is rumored by many to be one of the finest point-and-click adventure game released by LucasArts when it was more than just a studio for Star Wars games. Now they’re back in episodic games spanning 6 episodes created by Tell Tale Games. Sam (a dog [...]

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Catan is the first real board game to hit Xbox Live Arcade service for Xbox 360 and if you are even remotely interested in strategic board games, then this should be at the top of your list. Catan is all about resources: you must collect, trade and steal wool, lumber, ore, brick and wheat [...]

Kane is back! And so is the Command & Conquer series with the release of Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars. The original C&C game helped solidify real-time strategy genre as a staple on PCs everywhere: even though Tiberium Wars is not revolutionary and doesn’t bring new ideas to the table, it’s an almost-perfectly executed [...]

Here’s the first true PS3 game that I definitely wanted to purchase as soon as it came out, and it’s an overall disappointment: even being delayed by couple of months (it was originally launch title) wasn’t enough to make this title the showcase of what PS3 is capable.
Positive things first: graphics are gorgeous and they [...]

Star Wars Episodes 4 to 6 are regarded as vastly superior to Episodes 1 to 3, and it’s no surprise that the game based on the original trilogy is superior as well. LEGO Star Wars II transforms the beloved world of A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi into LEGOs: buildings, [...]

Supreme Commander is the long-awaited spiritual-sequel to 1997’s Total Annihilation, which I have fond memories of playing online with friends. Total Annihilation was a real-time strategy game that did things a bit differently than the rest of the genre by focusing on strategy: you had to balance resource management, understand unit strengths and weak points [...]