Xbox 360 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...

The world has fallen apart and The Kid doesn't even know it. He wakes up in his bed and the floor has literally fallen out from under him. The Calamity has occurred. The only thing separating him from the abyss is the ground that mysteriously appears in front of him as he moves. Where is everyone? Why is the world coming back together in front of him? He's got no idea. He's only really sure of one thing: he needs to get to the Bastion so he can meet his family and figure out why the world is completely demolished. Of course, we know just about as much as The Kid does about what's happening. The story picks up right after the end of the world, and it's all about figuring what happened..

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...

At first glance, Ms. Splosion Man looks like Splosion Man. And that’s fine, because there wasn’t much wrong with the first foray into the Splosion family. But a retread through the same game with a palette swapped character wouldn’t be nearly as exciting as what developer Twisted Pixel’s cooked up for the sequel to one of our favorite downloadable games ever. First impressions are wrong – upon closer inspection, this girl has a lot more to offer than her man did...

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...