Archive for August, 2010

27 Aug

Game Day: New downloads to blast the blahs

Summer is usually a slow time for gaming, occasional releases of big titles such as “StarCraft II” notwithstanding. But for the last few years, Xbox Live Arcade has hosted a high-profile summer series of downloadable games.

The sport-of-the-future…

20 Aug

Game Day: ‘StarCraft II’ worth the wait

In early 1998, a little real-time strategy game called “StarCraft” was released by Blizzard Entertainment, followed later that year by an expansion, “Brood War.”

“StarCraft II” pits humans against the Zerg and the Protoss. In multiplayer mode, all…

13 Aug

GameDay review: Playing with time in ‘Singularity’

An investigation of a mysterious island leads to the breaking of our timeline and the rise of a worldwide Soviet Empire in “Singularity.”