Tag archive: Saints Row

You might be surprised to find out that the life of a video game reviewer isn’t all champagne kisses and caviar dreams. When we aren’t jet setting around the globe in our private jets and swimming in our Scrooge McDuck-sized pools of gold, we occasionally take breaks to, you know, review games. Sometimes we have to endure some real stinkers, and other times we get lucky when true gems come along that remind us brilliantly why we love video games… Read More

Saints Row: The Third looks like full-contact Fable. That's the impression created by this latest gameplay clip, which basically amounts to seven minutes of mantastic posturing and crotch-punching, with the occasional game feature demonstration thrown in for good measure. Some standards need to be maintained, after all. The Saints Row series has always existed as a bizarre sort of polar opposite to Grand Theft Auto. While the Rockstar… Read More

If you've always wanted to know what it's like to be an arrogant homicidal asshole, Saint's Row: The Third is the game for you. Taking some of the most criticized traits of the Grand Theft Auto series and magnifying them 10 fold, the third Saint's Row game is more violent than almost any game on the show floor and proud of it. During our demo, the guys from developer Volition Inc. joked around incessantly as they impaled… Read More

Later this year, THQ will continue the story of the Third Street Saints gang in Saints Row: The Third. One of the cool things about the open-world action series, other than the obvious and very intentional riffing on Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto franchise, is the robust set of character creation tools. You create your very own gang leader by tweaking a wide range of options and that creation then integrates into the game's… Read More

Microsoft has landed an exclusive deal to distribute the second season of the “Internet cult hit” The Guild, and will be distributing the series' 12-episode run via the Xbox Live Marketplace, MSN, and the company's Zune Marketplace. The series will be sponsored by mobile operator Sprint. The first season of the show is being re-released across those platforms starting today; new episodes will begin appearing once a… Read More

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV may be delayed for the time being, but fans of open-world gaming will be pleased to know THQ’s imitator title Saints Row will be getting a sequel. The company announced Saints Row 2 on Monday with a press release and the launch of SaintsRow2.com. The game will again be developed by THQ’s in-house studio Volition, Inc., using the same engine from the original. THQ claims the game’s new… Read More