Review: Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z (PC)

Ninjas and zombies seems like a natural fit but Yaibu: Ninja Gaiden Z squanders what could have been a choice opportunity to whirl together a rollicking zombie action game like 2012's Lollipop Chainsaw did.

Instead what's delivered is a rote action game (but really, really hard) with enough offensive imagery and characters to fill a spit bucket on a porn set, that is both woefully repetitive and uninteresting.

Review: Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge (Wii U)

Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge could have also been subtitled “Don’t Blink!” or “Mash Button, Make Body Parts Fly!” because each is a more apt description of the gameplay than what Tecmo Koei came up with.

Preview: Dead or Alive 5 (360, PS3)

On the ladder of fighting games, the Dead or Alive series is often lumped in the middle of the pack, and in spite of that, or maybe because of it, it's a series that I'll choose to play over other "tournament level" series like Soul Calibur and Street Fighter. Plus, button mashing can work.

Dead or Alive seems to revel in its spectacle and with each new title finds a different way to wriggle around in a wading pool of jello trying to find some other way to create even more spectacle.