PS3 Previews

The Crusades were a brutal time. They're even worse if you've been handed down a horrible family curse that causes you to pass between the real world and a hellish alternate dimension. Denz and Estaban, the two warrior protagonists of publisher Atlus' The Cursed Crusade know these facts firsthand. Their co-op adventures through various European cities are brutally violent, difficult, and occasionally fairly demonic...

With the recent shake-up of NCAA conferences, we can hopefully expect similar changes in EA’s newest NCAA football game. EA Sports conducted five community events this past winter in an effort to make a more user-pleasing experience, and some of their changes are pretty impressive...

Once the premium soccer game on the market, Pro Evolution Soccer has since turned over that title to FIFA. But every season is a new shot at the championship, and Konami is determined to make a comeback on the scene with PES 2012...

With its deep customizable gameplay, complex universe and penchant for battles that can last up to six hours (not to mention a continuous stream of updates and expansions that expand its universe even further), EVE Online is probably one of the most meticulously detailed MMOs out there. Developer CCP Games is no longer content with EVE on its own, though, and as a result they are introducing Dust 514, a shooter MMO for the PS3, to the EVE Online experience...

Time manipulation powers are nothing new in videogames, but Konami’s Blades of Time looks like it may be using it in somewhat less-used context. The game’s action-adventure trappings make it like most other third-person hack-n-slash fare, yet with its time mechanic you can do more than simply rewind previous actions...

Two Worlds was, for all intents and purposes, a dead franchise. It was a still-born Oblivion wannabe from Polish studio Reality Pump. Then, somehow, publisher Topware managed to bring it back from the dead with the comparatively far better sequel Two Worlds II. And now, with more than two million copies of Two Worlds II sold worldwide as proof that the series is worthy, the publisher is looking to sweeten the deal with Pirates of the Flying Fortress, a DLC expansion...

Risen 2: Dark Waters is Die Hard with a Vengeance. Well, sort of. German studio Deep Silver stated that the main character in Risen 2 is a John McClane-esque sort – an unrecognized hero spinning into alcoholism before being called back into action. This is how they explain the open world series’ shift from a medieval epic (the first game) to Risen 2’s “pirate RPG.”...

With another summer comes another heaping pile of super-hero flicks, poised to drain our wallets in both regular and wacky 3D flavors. And what are super-hero movies without licensed videogames? Now that Thor's slowing down – our condolences to those who played it – we have that other Avengers prequel to worry about. Hold on, though: that statement might be a bit too harsh, because Captain America: Super Soldier actually might be awesome...

NBA 2K12 represents just about the last sports game still made by 2K sports, which at one point was producing up to seven different games a year. And while its baseball and football titles might be long gone, 2K is making an impressive stand with its blockbuster basketball franchise. Even though NBA 2K11 was an innovative and sweeping change from past basketball games, 2K Sports is still committed to making 2K12 just as large of a jump. But is that possible?...

Bodycount is the type of game that might be getting front-page attention in the game industry if it weren’t for hundred-million dollar shooters like Halo and Call of Duty. Next to those kind of giants, it’s tough for a smaller-budget title like Bodycount to establish itself. But its heart is in the right place, and for those with a love of destruction (and the Xbox/PS2 shooter Black, this game’s elder brother), Bodycount may have even more to offer than its herculean competitors...