Killer Queen Black is tense and thrilling
The arcade hit makes its way to the comfort of your own home splendidly.
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Review: The Ascent is often frenetic, furious, frenzied, and easily forgotten
A cyberpunk world framed in cornea burning neon coupled with a cast of thoroughly unlikeable characters translates into a game that’s often frenetic, furious, frenzied and easily forgotten.
E3 2014 – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Impressions
The Metal Gear Solid series is no stranger to absurdity, so nobody was surprised that after the relatively well closure of the saga in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, we would be getting even more new games that retcon new events and characters into the already convoluted timeline. Metal Gear Solid V:…
PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate Review
PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate is a game with exceedingly robust level design. However, the game is not a hard-hitting tale of descent into darkness, even though that’s the general plot. Across many levels and many stages, you’re tasked with finding resources and saving scientists. Besides that, your job is to deal with whatever strange anomalies and enemies that block your path. You’re…
TumbleSeed Review – A rolling good time
Roguelikes aren’t typically the sort of game I think of when I want to play something to unwind to. Their tense nature generally reverses them for something I have to specifically be in the mood to play given how long individual runs in these games last and how crushing defeat inevitably is. TumbleSeed is different….
Review: Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition is a cute tribute to Ubisoft’s banana-haired mascot
Our hero Rayman sure looks as spiffy today as he did in 1995, eh?
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a heart-pumping blast from start to finish
There are games in which I just sit down, buckle up, and accept just about every crazy thing they throw at me, because they are just ridiculously fun and entertaining. A series which earned that place in my book is Wolfenstein. Ever since I was a kid, it’s been part of my gaming curriculum, starting…
Cities: Skylines Review
Cities: Skylines is hard to fault. It’s efficient. It’s concise. It’s streamlined. It doesn’t have shoe-horned multiplayer. It doesn’t tax your computer. It supports a massive amount of land. It’s cheap. And most of all, it supports a modding community. Skylines is the SimCity that everyone wanted at a much more aggressive price point. If…
Review: Relive some swashbuckling gaming classics in the Wonder Boy Collection
The Wonder Boy Collection offers ports of entries that highlight the very best and worst that the series has to offer.
E3 2014 – Tales from the Borderlands Impressions
Who would’ve known Borderlands could ever be made into an adventure game? For one, the folks at Telltale Games. Tales from the Borderlands is their newest episodic game set in the crazy world of Pandora, that follows the events right after the end of Borderlands 2. Whether or not you were wondering what was going on…