Busting Myths: Could The Odyssey Work As A Game?

Last week I posed the question of whether or not Homer's epic poem The Iliad could work as a AAA video game and this week it's time to cover Homer's other famous masterpiece: The Odyssey. While it's rather easy to see how a poem devoted to warfare, heroes, and gods could be reworked into a AAA title, a game that seeks to retell the wanderings of Odysseus would have to be a much different beast.

Combat Crossover: The Complete First Season

For anyone who has ever wondered: "who would win in a fight between Link and Cloud?" or "could Samus take down Master Chief?", be sure to check out Combat Crossover, my weekly feature over at vgutopia.com

Below you'll find links to all eight battles in the feature's first "season", and you can even still vote on the outcome of the season finale and tune in next week for the results!

Video Game Review: Arkham City; The Dark Knight Returns Triumphant

Considering Arkham City, Rocksteady’s and Warner Brothers Game’s smash hit follow up to the 2009 game of the year Arkham Asylum, came out a little under a month ago, it may seem strange to have taken so long for me to get around to writing a review for it.  Well, I have two very good excuses for my delayed response: the first is that I wanted to wait until I had gotten a chance to sample all of the aspects the game has to offer including the optional Nightwing DLC that was just released a few days ago.  The second reason, and this shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s played the game so far, is that Arkham City is probably one of the greatest video games I have ever played and I just can’t put it down.