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Review: Saints Row IV’s ‘Matrix’-like simulation transcends genre 20 Aug 2013 | 09:34 am
"Saints Row IV" opens with humanity being abducted by aliens en masse. By EMMANUEL LOPEZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT After battling luchadores, fending off assassins disguised as strippers and standing up t...
Revisiting Grand Theft Auto’s San Andreas 17 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
Fans of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will get a chance to revisit that game's setting this fall in Grand Theft Auto V. By EMMANUEL LOPEZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Grand Theft Auto V, due out Sept. 23, tak...
Remembering Giant Bomb’s Ryan Davis 12 Jul 2013 | 05:20 am
By ERIC WITTMERSHAUS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Even though we both had Petaluma addresses and crossed paths at video game industry events, I had never formally met Giant Bomb’s Ryan Davis, who died July 3 ...
Review: The Last of Us a huge step up for talented Naughty Dog 6 Jul 2013 | 03:50 pm
By ERIC WITTMERSHAUS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Note: This review of the single-player campaign in “The Last of Us” is the first of a few posts I will be rolling out on the game over the next week or so. N...
Review: Grid 2 stretches itself thin trying to please everybody 21 Jun 2013 | 01:11 am
By EMMANUEL LOPEZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Racing games – and by extension racing game fans – tend to fall into distinct two camps. Some players enjoy getting under the hoods of virtual cars, tweaking and t...
Review: Resident Evil Revelations successfully merges new, old 8 Jun 2013 | 08:23 am
“Resident Evil: Revelations,” originally released last year for Nintendo’s 3DS, attempted to take the series back to its roots by marrying survival horror elements from the earlier games with the acti...
Introducing Emmanuel Lopez, GameWit’s newest blogger 7 Jun 2013 | 10:38 am
Starting Friday morning, you'll be seeing posts from a new writer here at GameWit. Please welcome Emmanuel Lopez, who recently joined The Press Democrat's sports department.… Read More »
Review: Buggy Dead Island Riptide feels like a step backward 3 May 2013 | 12:01 pm
Rather than improve upon what worked in “Dead Island,” the studio has apparently spent the past year and a half taking the meat of the first game, porting it over to a new, similar setting and graftin...
Review: BioShock Infinite a one-of-a-kind tour de force 4 Apr 2013 | 12:16 pm
For players well-versed in modern video games, "BioShock Infinite" is a creative tour de force. But its outstanding story is occasionally undermined by trappings common to first-person shooters.… Read...
Review: Dead Space 3 a good story, middling game 6 Mar 2013 | 10:44 am
As an expansion of the fiction of the "Dead Space" universe, filled with markers and ruthlessly fast, killing-machine zombies, "Dead Space 3" succeeds markedly. But it falters in a number of other are...
