Dan Adams

When students from DigiPen showed off their student project Narbacular Drop to a room full of Valve personell, they probably didn't expect that they would not only be hired, but given a budget to expand that idea into something as special as we see with Portal. It's quirky, clever, polished, and presented with a spark of a subtly evil humor that it's hard not to enjoy the quick romp through Aperture Laboratories. The problem is that it is so quick. Players wanting to get their money's worth will

Star Wars: Republic Commando stars elite killer clones and towering Wookiees. LucasArts' military experiment is good, not great.

I wanted to make this review short and sweet, but it's hard to stop writing, even when excluding facts that could potentially contaminate an exceptionally well thought-out gaming experience. There's just so much to say. Half-Life 2 is, simply put, the best single-player shooter ever released for the PC. It does so many things right in so many ways that it might be possible to write a thesis on the topic of Half-Life 2 compared to other single player shooters. What Valve has created is simply a m