Personally, I didn’t get to play Dark Souls, Saints Row the Third and Deux Ex: Human Revolution last year, and I could knock out all three of those for less than $80. This Buy Two Pre-Owned Games, Get a Third Free sale is not good for my wallet.

Any serious fan of fighting games know that you need an arcade stick to bring your A-game.

After brief rumors and speculations, Capcom announced that Resident Evil 6 is coming this year.

With Twitter abuzz with taunts and challenges and the Thrifty Nerd staff’s productivity brought to a halt by the release of Hero Academy, we decided to take a look behind the scenes at Robot Entertainment to see what went into the crafting of our latest handheld, tactical addiction. “I have always loved tactics games like …

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the last in the Assassin’s Creed 2 Trilogy from Ubisoft. This game brings players the conclusion of the story of the protagonist, Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The one thing about this title which was jarring from the start would be that the Ezio that is playable, isn’t the Ezio that fans have remembered in the past two installments of this trilogy. The story of the Ezio shown here is that of an aged hero in his 50s. Although many years have passed, and the story now takes place in modern day Turkey, Ezio is as sharp as ever and ready to deal out just oodles of violence, but gratuitous amounts of it.

Any elder gamer can look at games today and scoff in disgust. Many gamers have been coddled their whole lives. They’ve known the luxuries of check points and regenerating health.

GameStop has a bunch of this past year’s big releases on sale for $10 to $30 off. Okay Assassin’s Creed Revelations is $30 off, and everything else is $10 to $20. There are some excellent titles to choose from though, like Batman: Arkham City, Gears of War 3 and Need for Speed: The Run all for $39.99 each.

We were all a little sad when Max Payne 3 was pushed back to May 15, 2012. Then we watched this video, about Max’s “targeting, weapons, and tactical movement”, and we became downright depressed. Look at how slow that Bullet Time™ is! It’s so slow! It is strange to think of Rockstar making a game with amazing shooting, but it isn’t strange to imagine Rockstar owning the month of May once again.

Hero Academy is a turn based strategy game. Two teams enter a nine by five grid and fight to destroy each others’ jewels while protecting their own.

Dead Island is game that is very near and dear to our hearts. It almost shuffled into our top ten list.