Let’s shorten Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed's unwieldy title to just Transformed from here on out. Transformed is the sequel to Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing, a kart racer that critics didn’t seem to take much notice of. I don’t blame them for being wary. After

Hell Yeah! (not to be confused with the heavy metal band I’ve never heard) is an all-new Metroidvania-style platformer. The subgenre name comes from the game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which blended the Castlevania series’ action-platforming

2XL Games made a name for themselves with off-road racer Baja: Edge of Control for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. After that, they switched gears to mobile development for several years, continuing to focus on off-the-pavement racing games. Now 2XL is back on consoles with Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad for XBLA and PSN. Afte

Bloodforge is an Xbox 360-exclusive hack-and-slash title from UK developer Climax Studios. The story takes place in a cold, unnamed Scandinavian location, probably somewhere in the 8th to 11th century. It revolves around Crom, a warrior who has left behind his raiding days to settle down with a family. When an evil god caus

The Silent Hill series has seen its ups and downs. After part 4, each new title has come from a different developer, some meeting with better critical reception than others. And yet fans clearly long to return to the doomed town of Silent Hill. The latest opportunity to do so - Silent Hill: Downpour - comes from Czech devel

Mixing RPGs with other genres often produces great results - just look at Borderlands and the first Puzzle Quest. Then there's Castle Crashers, wh

Capcom is sometimes accused of relying too heavily on sequels rather than new properties. Indeed they do produce a great many Resident Evil games and lately, fighters. But no wise person can say that Capcom doesn’t also take risks on original titles. Asura’s Wrath is proof enough of that. Developed by C

I love it when a classic series comes back in one fashion or another. Rerelease, remake, sequel, it doesn’t matter, as long as it scratches that nostalgia itch. Choplifter HD, from Konami and developer Inxile Entertainment (who also briefly revived The Bard’s Tale a while back) is more of a sequel than