State of Decay was hands down one of 2013’s biggest surprises, an unassuming indie game that trotted on the familiar, but uniquely featured open world setting of the zombie apocalypse. Its newest piece of downloadable content, title Breakdown doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the core game. Instead of reinventing State of Decay, Breakdown removes…
Rain’s concept is a splendid one. It follows a young boy and girl who suddenly find themselves turned invisible, unable to be seen except in the rain. The idea opens up a fair number of inventive opportunities. Except Rain fails to capitalize on them at every turn. Monotonous levels and repetitious puzzles make Rain a…
The Stanley Parable is a singular video gaming experience unlike any other and you owe it to yourself and to posterity to witness it first-hand.
The episodic model seems to the be steadily becoming the standard for point-and-click adventure games. Ever since Telltale Games practically mastered the craft, all sorts of adventure game makers have been aping the model to varying degrees of success. It’s a tough structure to pull off. One of the latest games to take a crack…
Wonderful are the moments when you simply have to stop what you are doing and just smile and awe. While playing the first of Telltale’s newest adventure series, The Wolf Among Us, I couldn’t help to be happy. I was playing yet another great game in my personal favorite genre – and it was just…
Yearly upgrades have come to be the norm for sport games since just about forever. Long gone are the days you’d buy one of them without having expectations or comparison points with previous versions. Coming in from Jaleco’s GOAL! and International Superstar Soccer, I had my doubts jumping back into soccer games with last year’s…
The transition from mobile to home computer is always one met with at least some measure of trepidation. Mapping touch control to the mouse seems like an easy proposition – they’re similar enough to avoid losing anything, after all. Not always is it so straightforward, though. Some games are just better suited for touch devices,…
There are few games out there that can match Rayman Legends. It sets a new standard in charm and creativity, and it should positively be played by just about anyone with even the slightest interest in videogames. Picking up from where Rayman Origins left off, Legends takes everything one step above. It seems Rayman and…
After months of carefully putting together puzzles and helping agent Reed along in her investigation, it’s finally time to end it all. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller comes to a satisfying close when Erica finally comes face-to-face with the Cain Killer in arguably the best episode of the season. Dubbed quite simply The Cain Killer, episode…
MirrorMoon EP is a game steeped in mystery. You traipse across the galaxy, investigating planets and naming them, but to what end? For what purpose? The austere landscape and abstract design obfuscate any sense of clarity, leaving you to wander aimlessly in search of reason for all this. But even if you don’t discover the…
