Have you ever looked out your office window at the bustling street below and sighed at the lack of color found on a city street? Have you ever closed your eyes on a rainy day, and pictured a lush, verdant meadow bathed in sunshine? Flower attempts to touch the part of you that longs for a beautiful landscape on a sunny day by putting you in control of the wind in a grass covered field. Your objective is to guide that wind and the flower petals in it from flower to flower in order to open them up, and bring new life to barren and dreary parts of the field.

I’m always a little cautious when it comes to video games based on movies, television, or anime. Some of them are pretty good, but for the most part, they’re pretty terrible. When the first screen shots of Afro Samurai came across my desk in all their cell shaded glory, along with the news that Samuel L. Jackson would be doing voice work for the game, I was actually pretty hopeful for this game. With the high quality of the artwork, and the top notch voice talent, it was apparent right from the start that a lot of care went into the presentation of this game.

Operation Anchorage is the first of three downloadable expansions on the way for the wildly successful Fallout 3. In it, you are tasked with liberating Alaska from the Chinese in a simulation of one of the Fallout universe’s historic battles. During the simulation, you’ll face a variety of challenges in your efforts to free Alaska from the Chinese invaders. Success will yield a treasure trove of new gear, and failure will yield only death.

I’m a pretty big fan of the Star Wars: Battlefront games, as well as the Lord of the Rings books and movies. Needless to say, I was pretty excited about Lord of the Rings Conquest when I first heard about it. Combining the Lord of the Rings world with Star Wars Battlefront style gameplay should have been a recipe for pure win. Pandemic used the right ingredients, they just took the game out of the oven too soon.

Back on October 7th Peter Molyneux dropped a none too subtle hint that some DLC was coming for Fable 2. He implied that said DLC would be more than just a pack of new items and weapons to use as you romp around Albion. Here we are three months later, just two days after Knothole Island appeared on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and Mr Molyneux delivered on that implication… but only just barely.

I had such high hopes for Sonic Unleashed when I first heard about it. The first videos and screenshots reminded me of Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. Now THAT was a Sonic game. Fast paced action and platforming made it an excellent addition to the franchise. That’s the next gen Sonic game everyone’s been looking for. Something that takes all of the things that were great about the older games in the franchise, and brings them into this generation of gaming. Unfortunately, Sonic Unleashed isn’t it.

A long time ago, I cancelled my Netflix subscription due to their practice of queue throttling. See, I’d much rather watch a good movie than channel surf when I sit down on the couch at the end of the day.…

I remember the good old days of arcade gaming. I used to play Street Fighter II for hours on end in my favorite arcade as “I Touch Myself” by The Divinyls played on the jukebox over and over. I actually…

When you make the decision to move into a new apartment, or house, what are the first things you think about when inspecting the new residence? School district? Local shopping? How close it is to work? Or do you look…

I’ve had a very love-hate relationship with Mortal Kombat games over the years.  Each of the first three games ate a large number of my quarters in the arcades of my misspent youth, but I  hated the last few games…