Author: jack burton

Kevin Augspurger/Jack Burt0n – Kevin is a lifelong videogame, technology, and movie enthusiast who spent two years working as a co-host on the previous incarnation of Breakmanx.com’s “The Game Show”. After that, Kevin also did some freelance work for Lawrence.com magazine’s videogame reviews column before settling into a career in Information Technology. Some of Kevin’s favorite games include Halo, Rock Band 4, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, and Super Mario World.

So Castlevania is probably my most favorite videogame series ever.  Yes, even more favorite than Halo.  Castlevania has the great gameplay, great music, great atmosphere.  Stuff that makes me just want to keep coming back for more each time, kinda like a half-starved orphan.  Well, I know I've talked about it before, but I somehow managed to get a copy of the never-before-released-in-the-US Dracula X: Rondo of Blood.  If you haven't heard of it, or played it, I suggest you do your damnedest to get a hold of it.  It is probably the best old-school style Castlevania game.  It's got…

The history of Star Wars-licensed games is somewhat checkered. On the one hand, you have the brilliance of games such as Dark Forces series (PC) and X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter (PC), but you also have the dismal failures that were Galactic Battlegrounds (PC) and Obi-wan (Xbox). Now, LucasArts and Pandemic Studios have brought us Star Wars: Battlefront, and thankfully it allows gamers to relive almost all of their favorite battles from the entire Star Wars saga so far, all while playing online or at home. SW: Battlefront is a game that is a bit difficult to explain if you have…

The game Counter-Strike is somewhat of an anomaly when speaking of videogames. If you don’t know its story by now, you should know that it simply started off with a group of guys that made a simple little modification (mod) for the PC game, Half-Life. Well, wouldn’t you know it, the game spread like wildfire. Counter-Strike went on to become the most popular online game ever, to this date, and even became big enough to garner a separate retail release from its parent game, Half-Life. When Microsoft launched Xbox Live, they knew that they had a big player on their…

Loop-de-loops, immelmanns, barrel rolls. What do all of these have in common? They’re all amazing flight maneuvers that you’ll probably never be able to do in real life (unless you’re a member of the Blue Angels), and they’re all easy to execute and fun to watch in the new game from FASA Studios and Microsoft Games, Crimson Skies. This game started out as a simple port from its PC iteration, but over time and many delays, this game has turned into one of the finest available for the Xbox to date.This game has everything. It has a solid, albeit somewhat…