The sheer number of video games that come to market means that there will always be some gems that fly under the radar. ...

Bugs are an unfortunate reality in video games. No matter how much testing developers do, they simply can’t catch them all. Some bugs ...

When you buy a game, you enter into an unspoken agreement with the people who made it and published it. In return for ...

No matter how brutal and nightmare-flecked the setting, no matter how many waves of unholy creatures assail the planet and no matter how ...

Obsidian Entertainment is a development house that is known for taking other people’s hand-me-downs and turning out unfinished sequels. In 2004, they made ...

Developer Obsidian has become known for flawed (or even ruined) masterpieces, and Alpha Protocol follows that tradition. Fortunately, the game is more masterpiece ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] The plot of Alpha Protocol is more twisted than pretzels baked by M.C. Escher. It’s one of those stories where nobody is ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] A major no-no in a game where you can specialize in stealth and surprise takedowns: Forced boss battles. In my first run ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Alpha Protocol has a dialog system much like the one in Mass Effect: You don’t choose exactly what you’re going to say, ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Yes, in Alpha Protocol you wake up to find you got the job but your employer doesn’t want you to know where ...

Alpha Protocol breaks my heart. Play it and you’ll see, lurking there just beneath the surface, a genuinely fresh new take on the ...

The great irony of spy fiction is that spies – the real on-the-ground, in-your-face, bring-home-the-secret-plans guys who are out there right now saving ...