Philadelphia Phillies slugging first baseman Ryan Howard has been racking up the accolades in his brief but impressive career, and the big man with the home-run swing now finds himself on the cover of MLB 08: The Show, the startlingly realistic simulation baseball title for the PlayStation 3.
Since MLB 08: The Show will be on […]

Next week, 2K Sports — which has been the subject of a two billion-dollar buyout attempt by Electronic Arts — releases Major League Baseball 2K8, a game that may end up being the most important game in the history of the sports-game developer.
As the only major sport not licensed by competitor EA Sports, Major League […]

Finally - the mold has been broken. The PSP, which has unfortunately been the home of too many dumbed-down and half-hearted attempts to establish console franchises in portable fashion, has its new prototype - a simple-to-play but challenging title that has style to burn.
Welcome to Patapon.

A cute, cartoon-styled world controlled by rhythmic button presses belies […]

Some of our more alert readers may have noticed that I write some NBA content for EASports.com, specifically their NBA Game of the Week preview - this week’s contest is Wednesday’s Cavaliers-Celtics matchup.
No, I’m not compensated in any way for it, save that some new readers might be exposed to 5WG - and I love […]

5WG is proud to announce the addition of Clay T. Shaver to the site as a regular columnist.
Shaver - who along with myself, Mark Fossen and Chris Sullivan, at one time comprised the majority of the writing staff at OperationSports.com in it’s salad days - brings years of experience covering sports titles, but like the […]

Let’s see - Electronic Arts tried, and failed - for the moment at least - to buy Take-Two, Phil Harrison resigned from his lofty post at Sony, and in the “you knew it was coming” moment of the weekend, Microsoft killed off it’s HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360.
Just your average weekend in the gaming […]

5WG is pleased to present the following article, written by guest columnist Chris Sullivan.
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Struggling for ideas on what has been a cold, wet, and miserable Friday, I’ve decided to take a quick glance at what’s on the horizon.  Coming off what many have considered the best year in gaming history, 2008 has some pretty big […]

After experiencing a corrupted save that would have forced me to move on from a game before finishing, the gaming gods smiled and allowed Uncharted to start working again on my trusty PS3. After finishing it yesterday, I have no doubt that it delivered on the promise of “Action Movie As Game” about as well […]

5WG is pleased to present the following article, written by guest columnist Clay T. Shaver, Senior Staff Writer at Operation Sports.
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Although the gaming industry as a whole doesn’t really have an off-season, the sports gamer often finds himself wandering, lost and aimless, during the cold winter months between the release of the last basketball and […]

Ever had one of those days weeks months?
I’m finally catching up with the pile of games on my desk, and looking forward to getting a few reviews out in the next two weeks. It’s struck me how how momentum Sony has of late; it seems like most of the interesting games in the last few […]