The Rainbow Six: Vegas series holds a special place in my heart as the host of some of my best multiplayer memories. The mix of realistic tactical gameplay and great game modes made those two games so much fun that it pained me to see Rainbow Six take a back seat after Patriots’ cancellation. All’s […]
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E3 2014 – Hellraid Impressions
Hellraid is probably the least exciting game when you read it off a press release or an E3 lineup. What could a medieval fantasy hack and slash offer that something like Skyrim didn’t already do to death? The basic premise is of a lone hero who joins forces with a powerful mage in order to put […]
Trials Fusion Review
There’s a certain sense of accomplishment when you manage to finish a level in Trials Fusion without any faults. While it’s easy to breeze through the initial chunk of stages, it doesn’t take long before you are hitting the ‘redo’ button over and over again, all the while, your poor on screen rider repeatedly falls […]
Strider Review
Videogames are an empowering media. Some games, like Metroid and the more recent entries in the Castlevania series start you off with an overpowered character and quickly strip their power away, only to give them back to guy, bit by bit as you explore a huge map. Borrowing heavily from these is Strider, Capcom’s newest revival […]
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Review
After a disappointing outing with Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is just what the tired series needed. Regardless of some gameplay issues that have been plaguing the series since its very beginning, Assassin’s Creed IV is an extremely fun refinement to the franchise. Black Flag opens with Edward Kenway, a pirate in search of […]
Entertainium Extra: Steam family sharing, new Vita model announced, and more
Entertainium Extra is our weekly news round-up highlighting some of the bigger, interesting, or just plain weird stories from the past week. Valve announces family share plan for Steam One of the more interesting functions of the Xbox One prior to the DRM reversal was the game sharing. The idea was you could grant a […]
Entertainium Extra: Xbox One launch date, Dark Souls 2 beta, Hotline Miami 2 concessions, and more
Hello, and welcome once again to Entertainium Extra! Our weekly news round-up feature highlighting some of the bigger, interesting, or just plain weird stories from the past week. This week, Microsoft unveiled the release date for the Xbox One, Namco revealed the details on their forthcoming Dark Souls 2 beta, Hotline Miami 2 makes some concessions […]
Entertainium Extra: Console launch details, Origin refunds, and more
Hello, and welcome to Entertainium Extra! Our new weekly news round-up feature highlighting some of the bigger, interesting, or just plain weird stories from the past week. This week saw the news we’ve all been waiting for: new console launch details! Both Sony and Microsoft dropped the news at Gamescom in Germany, which probably marks […]
E3 2013 – D4 Preview
One of the bigger surprises from Microsoft’s E3 press conference was the unveiling of Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro’s (of Deadly Premonition fame) new game D4, for Xbox One. An episodic murder mystery, D4 follows a private detective with the strange ability to travel back in time by touching certain mementos. The game sports a cel-shaded art […]