Stories Collection

  1. When Bob Barker yaps about neutering housecats, he's sending you a message: Crank the...
  2. “Come up around over here!” was Scorpion’s (Mortal Kombat) original...
  3. On the Cover: Virtua Fighter Sure, it doesn’t look like anything special now. B...
  4. It’s the classic, totally addictive, simple 8-bit Bomberman—sans multipla...
  5. It’s perfectly natural to be skeptical about The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords A...
  6. When you think “tactical espionage action,” there’s one gameplay el...
  7. Of the 2,000 PC games available for ApeXtreme on day one, try these for a gaming expe...
  8. On the Silver Screen: Underground boxing, schizophrenic masochism, and soap rendered ...
  9. “We’re bringing a sword to a gunfight,” says Unreal Championship II...
  10. I’m not a controller thrower, never have been,” writes jungleroom_x from ...
  11. Once upon a time, the main character of Microsoft’s wildly ambitious RPG was to...
  12. Like Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick in this interactive prequel to the films, this ...
  13. Paul: While Siren’s story and voice acting are well above par for a survival-ho...
  14. Big-boned but rock-solid Final Fantasy summon Ifrit is cock of the walk since he star...
  15. I’m a very big fan of cosplay as long it’s other people doing the cosplay...
  16. Dark, nasty, yet oh-so-cute gremlins inhabit every photo you’ve ever taken. But...
  17. Master Higgins lives, and the jungles of Adventure Island don’t look half bad o...
  18. If you missed the original Paper Mario years ago on Nintendo 64, imagine the recent G...
  19. Craving more from your American special agent/British special agent/Japanese special ...
  20. “We’re not blind to the fact that the Rare name lost some of its lustre t...
  21. On the Silver Screen: Disney’s oddball epic famously captured the zeitgeist of ...
  22. Set a course for hell, Space Marine—the Satan-obsessed shooter that started it ...
  23. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but telling that to gaming’s latest stealt...
  24. Not everyone had a good feeling about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, last ye...
  25. Narc PS2/XB • Midway • Fall 2004 The classic NARC arcade game issued a ste...
  26. Never trust an elf or a man with two first names. Also, don’t wear tights in a ...
  27. Buck up for some ill tidings: Rumor has it that FFXII won’t hit Japan until lat...
  28. Uo (pronounced “whoa”) is the latest PS2 project coming to Japan this sum...
  29. The greatest food-themed maze chase ever. Why animated fried eggs and hot dogs are ch...
  30. The GBA is going totally ’80s. On June 7, Nintendo will release a limited-editi...
  31. Crave the smell of both burning gasoline and mud, but wanting teensy bikes or all the...
  32. Let’s pause to celebrate the passing of an era. Aside from the occasional ugly ...
  33. On the Silver Screen: He’s a middle-aged man with an Austrian accent. She&rsquo...
  34. The jungle got fun and games, but it’s also enough to bring you to your sha-na-...
  35. Just in time to save PC gamers from the brain-melting drought of quality games come t...
  36. G. Ford: Agent 47’s first console foray, Hitman 2, grabbed our attention with ...
  37. Van Helsing is a pleasant surprise. While VU Games could have simply shoveled out a q...
  38. So far, most attempts to tell a serious story within a Grand Theft Auto–style pl...
  39. Patch quick looks at the games that didn’t make the cut this month or won&rsquo...
  40. Anger management. No, not the movie—the concept. Get to know it. I’ve had...
  41. In previous Star Fox titles, Slippy, a giant talking frog with a voice like that of a...
  42. Juiced PS2/XB • Acclaim • September 2004 — Pimp out your ride and put...
  43. Square Enix hasn’t formally announced much for the States yet, but it just boug...
  44. Tired of squinting at your GBA, trying to tell if those pixels you’re about to ...
  45. If you’ve uttered any expletives during your Ninja Gaiden battling, then you ne...
  46. On the Silver Screen: The hotshot boy wizard’s third year at Hogwarts School of...
  47. On the Silver Screen: Pixar’s Finding Nemo follow-up busts out in a much darker...
  48. Expectations for Killzone continue to balloon to astronomical levels—if you lis...
  49. Nolan Pflug has made Metroid Prime star Samus Aran his bee-yotch. The Pennsylvania-ba...
  50. Shane: Alias is one of those rare TV shows that treads a delicate line between melodr...
  51. Afterthoughts: Pandora Tomorrow An expanded online version of EGM's Splinter Cell P...
  52. G. Ford: Oh Sam, the memories we have. Who can forget our epic battle against the roo...
  53. Metal Gear’s Snake can’t stay in that box forever, you know. One day he&r...
  54. When men are subjected to enough horrors, they sometimes give in to the darkness. Oth...
  55. Ever since she came out swinging in 2000’s Girlfight, we’ve seen a lot of...
  56. Capcom’s top-down shooter comes to the BREW mobile platform courtesy of Upstart...
  57. The astro-baby stars of Pikmin 2 are a lot of things—thimble tall, in tune with...
  58. In the other ninja-based action romp, we’ve set out the weepingly difficult pla...
  59. On the Silver Screen: In a world where spider and octopus battle for supremacy, the w...
  60. On the Silver Screen: Since Indiana Jones seems unable to stage a comeback, Paramount...
  61. The drone of aircraft and the thunder of guns and exploding bombs are deafening. A So...
  62. You can have your Sam Fishers, your Solid Snakes—they’re all charlatans i...
  63. Paul: In videogames, terrorism is the new kidnapping. Used to be, when game developer...
  64. History Channel–TiVOing military groupies will snap a crisp salute to Full Spect...
  65. Wow. If only the folks at Reflections had put half as much effort into gameplay as th...
  66. In games we are giants. We are thugs and hit men and cybernetic killing machines. We ...
  67. While I’m not much for stock talk, I’ve got some sizzling-hot investment ...
  68. (Sega Master System) You’ve got to admit that while it fails in every aspect of...
  69. He wait is officially over. After nearly a year of keeping gamers in the dark about P...
  70. The coolest thing about this mobile port of Capcom’s WWII plane shooter? The st...
  71. You don’t wanna work—you just wanna bang on the drums all day. At least t...
  72. Bond moment 10 Level: A Long Way Down Sure, Bond could kill a man with precision and ...
  73. On the Silver Screen: Sometimes you’ve got to break the rules to free your hear...
  74. On the Silver Screen: This CG-animated fish story is less Finding Nemo and more...fin...
  75. 007 has nifty gadgets and looks great in a tux, but can he relieve your jock itch in ...
  76. Last we heard, the sequel to Def Jam Vendetta was going to take a page from Grand The...
  77. Miguel: Final Fantasy XI is finally here, and damn, is it a 10,000 hit-point monster....
  78. Super Joe’s bionic arm from NES classic Bionic Commando Last year Jesse Sulliva...
  79. Like Mario scrubbed the squalid Isle Delfino in Mario Sunshine, it’s time for y...
  80. On the Cover: Super Street Fighter II Turbo If you need proof that fighting games wer...
  81. When you do something heroic, it’s considered polite to tell the surrounding pe...
  82. Maybe you plunked down the 100 bucks to buy the recently released Final Fantasy XI (w...
  83. Sony Delays PSP Citing the need for time to complete more titles to support the syste...
  84. If the name GoldenEye merely brings to mind the mediocre 1995 Jimmy Bond flick, then ...
  85. GBA • Square Enix • Summer 2004 Square Enix won’t deliver its PS2 Kin...
  86. G. Ford: What a disappointment. While the ESPN and MVP Baseball series improve with e...
  87. Shawn: Graphics take a backseat to pure gameplay in Mega Party Game$, which serves up...
  88. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect Exposed Time isn't a constant anymore If Free Radi...
  89. Believe it or not, Metal Gear and Castlevania publisher Konami also owns of a chain o...
  90. Swamp Thing (Nes) Using nothing but his mighty punch, Swamp Thing must battle his way...
  91. It was a dark and dismal night. The kind of night that tore open your being and start...
  92. The virtual blood will flow this fall—that’s when Midway’s notoriou...
  93. Sony’s got new installments of its biggest PS2 platform franchises scheduled to...
  94. PS2 • Konami • Fall 2004 Say what? Don’t be embarrassed if you’...
  95. PS2 • Namco • Late 2004 Xenosaga, the reigning champion in the “Longe...
  96. Jennifer: When the Eye Toy camera first came out accompanied by a set of minigames ca...
  97. Shoe: I’m an old and grumpy gamer. So even when punk kids are looking at me lik...
  98. If Aerobics Revolution sounds a little frilly for your tastes, perhaps you’d pr...
  99. GC • Capcom — You know how in some games if you leave your character idle,...
  100. There are plenty of unlockable bonuses and extras for players willing to go above and...
  101. Jon D: OK, my original goal going into this game was to unlock the classic Atari Pitf...
  102. Maybe you’ve played the original PS1 stealth-action classic Metal Gear Solid an...
  103. GC • Nintendo • Summer 2004 Here’s the good news: Nintendo’s tw...
  104. Game Boy Advance continues to be a fertile breeding ground for quality RPGs. This yea...
  105. CJ: PS2 owners waited patiently for months to get their Rainbow Six fix, but in the e...
  106. GBA • THQ — Let me walk you through a Ripping Friends fight. First, you pu...
  107. If you played last fall's cult hit Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, you'll experience an od...
  108. Snake Charmer Split one snake, and two more come out: Hideo Kojima speaks on Meta...
  109. Space Raiders GC • Mastiff • May 2004 — When grotesque alien insects ...
  110. (Atari 2600, Intellivision) With a little imagination, a simple cardboard box can bec...
  111. As the phenomenon of side-talkin’ (www.sidetalkin.com) becomes as tragically un...
  112. Each month, we abduct a celebrity or game designer and force him/her to answer the bi...
  113. You have every imaginable game system, piles of games, and a monster boob tube. Lucky...
  114. PS2 • Square Enix • August 2004 Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS1) didn&rsq...
  115. XB • Microsoft • Fall 2004 The mysteries of the Orient have long fascinated...
  116. John R: It seems a little weird for an Xbox-exclusive game to get a PS2-exclusive seq...
  117. N-Gage • Airborne — I confess, there are times when I feel guilty for mock...
  118. Microsoft is pushing the upcoming Japanese release of Dead or Alive Ultimate Collecti...
  119. Best cover EGM #146: Final Fantasy X What went down? We summoned famed Final Fantasy ...
  120. GBA • TDK — This game has got to be the worst birthday present ever given ...
  121. The following four cheat codes dramatically change your Wrath: Unleashed experience. ...
  122. PS2 • Square Enix • Early 2005 — Square Enix’s epic FFXII is st...
  123. Show and tell: And you thought Alcatraz was rough. A stay at Butcher Bay prison makes...
  124. PS2 • Working Designs • May 2004 Working Designs is hell-bent on getting it...
  125. PS2 • Square Enix • June 2004 Most gamers don’t associate stomping ar...
  126. Bryan: Every pennant race has a team that falls just shy of reaching the fall classic...
  127. GBA • Atari — In Terminator 3, you’re a robot reprogrammed to help t...
  128. “You know what I hate about multiplayer role-playing games? You miss a couple n...
  129. Prior to EGM, founder Steve Harris tested the waters with black-and- white fanzine El...
  130. She’s made us laugh for five seasons on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, playin...
  131. Building decks Knowing the cards in and out will help you become a better deck builde...
  132. XB • Microsoft • August 2004 — Like the noble, plodding turtle, Micro...
  133. Sure, you could flip to the Discovery Channel and ogle animals making sweet love afte...
  134. XB • Microsoft • Fall 2004 Akihiro Hino, producer of the two Dark Cloud RPG...
  135. If you’ve ever considered playing Final Fantasy VI’s “Techno de Cho...
  136. Kevin: It’s really a shame this port of Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven (PS2) comes out...
  137. Just as I was doubled over, puking because of this game's sickly sweet, made-for-idio...
  138. Kevin: After a year of waiting (you have been waiting, right?), Unreal II finally hit...
  139. Geologically speaking, 15 years is no big whup (we’ve heard of mountain ranges ...
  140. 1 Mount Crushmore Commandos — Play as ex-presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roos...
  141. With Sam Fisher’s current stealth conflagration more than living up to the hype...
  142. XB • Microsoft • Fall 2004 — We catch another thrilling glimpse of Ha...
  143. Then you’ve spent the last 10 years building 40-foot-tall walking tanks capable...
  144. GC • Namco • July 2004 In Japan, Namco’s Tales franchise commands ser...
  145. If you’ve ever considered playing Final Fantasy VI’s “Techno de Cho...
  146. Kevin: If you know who Sergio Leone is or remember which film made Clint Eastwood a s...
  147. Developer Nippon Ichi has found its calling: wacky-tobaccy strategy-RPGs for hardcore...
  148. We were beginning to believe it would never happen, but Ninja Gaiden finally showed u...
  149. April 1992, EGM #33 EGM’s most infamous—and to some readers, most aggrava...
  150. We are now firmly and resolutely entrenched in the worst time of the year for PC rele...
  151. We don’t want to alarm you, but disgruntled history and literature professors m...
  152. Jon D: I expect Seven Samurai Director Akira Kurosawa’s grave is equipped with ...
  153. Hangin’ With the Bard Time to brush up on some fine literature: Shadow of Rome ...
  154. XB • Microsoft • Summer 2004 When Western developers try to make Japanese-s...
  155. Paul: Abbott State Penitentiary’s executed convicts are staging a good ol&rsquo...
  156. Paul: Imagine the love child of pugilistic manga/anime Fist of the North Star, PC cla...
  157. PS2 • Square Enix — Square’s first shot at a multiplayer online RPG ...
  158. Months before the news was official, Q-mann called console maker Sega’s decisio...
  159. merzo.net — If you’re the kind of person who would, say, enjoy comparing ...
  160. If there’s one thing the women of Konami’s all-girl PS2 wrasslin’ t...
  161. PS2 • Capcom • May 2004 “He’s like the Jason of feudal Japan,&r...
  162. Info on Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Square Enix’s 80-minute-long Final ...
  163. Spring sucks…well, at least for football fans. Gone are the Sunday afternoons ...
  164. PS2/XB • THQ • Fall 2004 If not for the skull shirt, you might mistake Marv...
  165. PS2 • Sony CEA • Fall 2004 Martin de Ronde, general manager of Dutch develo...
  166. Good: As close as any of us will get to real rally racing Bad: Never seeing another c...
  167. Fans of the film should know that a little bit of the movie’s edge is gone now ...
  168. PS2/XB/GC • Activision • May 2004 If you think PE is hard, think of gym cla...
  169. PS2/XB • VU Games • Late 2004 First rule of remaking Fight Club into a vide...
  170. PS2/XB • VU Games • Winter 2004 Packin’ stealth moves and a unique wi...
  171. Sure, we poked a li’l fun at the concept behind Game Over, a CG-rendered comedy...
  172. ESPN Baseball comes out swinging—its flawless ESPN presentation and squeaky-clea...
  173. Still playing SOCOM II? So are we and an average of over 30,000 other PS2 owners at t...
  174. Need for Speed Underground PS2, EA Games Need for Speed Underground PS2, EA Games Mad...
  175. PS2 • Sega • Summer 2004 Here’s the setup: You’re a futuristic ...
  176. What’ll it cost? What games will it launch with? Nintendo’s DS announceme...
  177. Cloud to Spring Into Action Final Fantasy VII fans can already look forward to the mi...
  178. PS2 • Koei • March 2004 PS2 gamers score a sequel to Xbox’s Dynasty W...
  179. MARK: Measured against all other games, Metal Gear Solid absolutely holds up—it...
  180. GBA • THQ — This is a great game for people who like Tony Hawk’s Pro...
  181. Why yes, that’s an excellent question. Here’s the truth: Most companies s...
  182. XB • Microsoft • Fall 2004 Take Red Faction’s destructible environmen...
  183. XB • Eidos • Summer 2004 Only raging nyctophobiacs (the egghead term for fo...
  184. Guess what...Ninja Gaiden missed our deadline again this month. And you’re prob...
  185. When an untested developer sets out to spin a story spanning no fewer than three game...
  186. Baseball has homers, soccer (allegedly) has goals, but boxing's special moment is the...
  187. Outside of Punch Out (NES), I've never been a big boxing-game fan. But Fight Night ha...
  188. What a great baseball experience! A tremendous pitcher/batter interface makes for a s...
  189. What a disappointment. While the ESPN and MVP Baseball series improve with each passi...
  190. Nanobreaker Q&A Konami's IGA talks about his immediate past and future with the u...
  191. When the Eye Toy camera first came out accompanied by a set of minigames called Play,...
  192. Luke’s about to unwrap his birthday present from C3PO. He’s looking at th...
  193. Sexy gamer wannabes, you best cancel that plastic surgery appointment, because Gamer....
  194. PS2 • Sony CEA • April 2004 Play as 10 different characters who are all dum...
  195. Oh, cruel marketing department! You have wronged us once again. Japanese gamers have ...
  196. Head over to egmmag.com to vote for which games you want updates on each month. 1. Ha...
  197. Ready for another joke? A street racer walks into a doctor’s office with a stee...
  198. Nintendo has an odd habit of announcing utterly bizarre games but then failing to fol...
  199. G. FORD: Set in 1930s New York City–esque Lost Heaven—complete with inacc...