In my earliest gaming days, I loved playing Runescape. Jagex's long-running fantasy MMO, while not as high profile as its peers, maintained a strong grip on me thanks to its mix of grand fantasy…
March 29, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
It’s easy to consider pretension as nothing but a net negative, especially when you’re uncertain of what you’re dealing with. Not knowing exactly where the path will take you is certainly a fear-…
July 1, 2023 | 10:56 EDT
It's hard to understate how influential Resident Evil 4 has been on the industry. One of its prototypes would branch off and become the famous Devil May Cry series. Games like Gears of War, Uncharted…
March 17, 2023 | 03:05 EDT
Welcome to New Ginen - a vibrant island town filled with tourist traps, snooty rich people, and a rich but forgotten culture overshadowed by visitor attractions. You play as the titular Voodoo…
July 11, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
"Today, she remembers. Today, she looks at the man who loves her, and feels familiarity and safety." This is one of the first few lines of We'll Always Have Paris, thrusting you right into the heart…
April 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
New ports of fan-favorite Resident Evil 4 are nothing new, but Resident Evil 4 VR, out now on Oculus Quest 2, is the definitive survival horror experience that fans of this classic have been waiting…
October 27, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
It isn’t often that video games get Director’s Cut editions, but I think we’ll make an exception for Kathy Rain. The debut offering from developers Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury, Kathy…
October 26, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Townscaper is a game without a goal, more of a tool when you really break it down. Probably not the best way to open up discussing it for review, but it is important to recognize this right off the…
August 30, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Books are a popular source material for many video games. From Sherlock Holmes to The Witcher, there’s a plethora of genres and stories to choose from. However, one series that I didn’t expect to get…
July 21, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
The Longest Road On Earth is an odd experience. Often feeling more like a movie than a game, and an artsy one at that, it can be hard to fully formulate how to even review it. So much of the way you…
May 27, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Doctor Who has a rich history of spin-offs from its main TV series, with everything from audio dramas to books to web series. And, since 1983, a plethora of video game spin-offs. These have ranged…
March 28, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
If you're unfamiliar with the terms of Pascal's wager, it goes thus. Believing in God is better than not believing because if you don't believe and God is real, you'll be punished, whereas if you do…
March 11, 2021 | 12:00 EST
There's a surprisingly broad niche of educational games targeted primarily at children that find a home in a nostalgic audience. Titles like Letter Quest and its addictive Scrabble like combat and…
January 12, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Team Meat’s hotly-anticipated blood-spattered auto-runner, Super Meat Boy Forever, has landed. It isn’t a bad game but I couldn’t help find it disappointing. As a sequel to 2010’s highly-acclaimed 2D…
January 4, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Immersion in horror gaming is hard to achieve. More than any other genre, horror requires you to be completely sold on its narrative. That's very tough when the controller and TV are acting as an…
January 15, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Like most people who grew up in the 90s and early millennium, the dream of having an arcade at home isn’t an uncommon one. While modern consoles, smartphones, and practically anything with a screen…
November 7, 2019 | 12:00 EST
What is it about role-playing games that drives us to passion? It seems more than any other genre we have RPG players and developers wear their hearts on their sleeves with ease, to the point of…
October 27, 2019 | 04:49 EDT
Comedy and improv aren't easy. Not everyone can stand in front of a crowd and retell a funny story or zing the audience with horrible one-liners. Improv comedy isn't always about that solo experience…
October 22, 2019 | 07:19 EDT
Minimalism. The philosophy sparks joy in some. In many ways, SiNKR 2 reflects that joy. Developer Robert Wahler puts minimalism on a pedestal here, trimming out all the fat to leave players with the…
May 9, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
About a year ago, I wrote an editorial that discussed modern day politics through the lens of a video game. The center of that conversation, the indie simulation-strategy title Riot – Civil Unrest,…
February 4, 2019 | 04:00 EST
I'll admit, I'm no longer a JRPG person. It's a genre I used to care about quite a bit, but I now find that I lack the patience to sit through turn-based combat and overly convoluted anime-esque…
December 5, 2018 | 12:00 EST
Where Shadows Slumber is a game that I've been following for some time. I first saw a tiny poster with intriguing art at a Playcrafting event and got to talking with one of its developers. Since then…
November 27, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Like the CRPG, the classic point-and-click adventure is going through a revival. Story-driven and humorous, these games are often dismissed as casual and lacking in compelling gameplay or innovation…
July 10, 2018 | 09:00 EDT
Welcome to our Infinity Operation Red Veil review. For those unfamiliar with Infinity, it's a cyberpunk-esque miniatures skirmish game by Corvus Belli that is currently on its third edition (Infinity…
May 22, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
The last episode of Batman: The Enemy Within ended with John Doe making an important choice. Either he took after Harley Quinn's teachings and became a villain, or he took after Batman and became a…
April 16, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
For those unfamiliar with Infinity, it's a miniatures skirmish game by Corvus Belli that is currently on its third edition (Infinity N3). The rules are available as a free download via their…
April 12, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Secret of Mana is the recently released remake of the 1993 classic SNES JRPG of the same name. Back in the 1990's, I was very much a Sega fangirl. I missed out on a lot of the games which are now…
March 3, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within exceeds my expectations at every turn. Every time a new episode comes out, I find myself glued to the game for its two-hour runtime, and I'm always so excited to see how…
February 11, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within has just hit its halfway mark. The first two episodes have seen Batman dealing with various classic villains adorned with new twists. The season has managed to keep things…
December 21, 2017 | 11:00 EST
The last time I said "this is the perfect IP for Telltale and one that I can't wait to see what they do with" it was with Game of Thrones. That has rather infamously been considered one of Telltale's…
December 4, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series hasn't really been great. In fact, it'd be more accurate to say it barely manages to clear the bar of "good". Each episode has been a…
November 11, 2017 | 01:00 EST
AuroraBound Deluxe is the premier PC and Mac release from Irish game developer Final Game Studios. A port of the AuroraBound mobile game released earlier this year, Deluxe is a relaxing puzzle game…
November 11, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Light Apprentice - The Comic Book RPG is a charming package on the surface. Its approach to potential customers is spearheaded by its comic-book-like aesthetic, which admittedly has its appeal. The…
November 11, 2017 | 09:00 EST
I've kept it no secret that Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has floundered. Unable to really figure out what it wants to be, the series has only really managed to tie together…
October 20, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The first episode of Batman: The Enemy Within caught me by surprise. I wasn't surprised that it was good, I was expecting that after the general quality of the first season. Rather, I felt surprised…
October 18, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
A few weeks ago I previewed Zillion Whales' Mushroom Wars 2 at Play NYC 2017. I sat down with the developers and played a couple of rounds of the game using a controller and learning how things…
October 11, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Great puzzle games often straddle the razor-thin line between frustration and challenge. They must be just hard enough to make a player pause but not so obtuse that quitting feels like a relief.…
October 6, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has been off to a noticeably rocky start so far. The first two episodes have been unable to provide the usual interesting characters and plots…
September 9, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Last year saw the release of Batman: The Telltale Series, a game that was eager to stray from established lore and provide a fresh take on Batman. By the end of the season I found myself left with an…
August 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
I am a huge fan of Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon: Back To Nature is one of my favorite games, and I sank a worryingly large amount of time into it. Harvest Moon 64 was the cause of many a late night in…
June 29, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
While I thought Telltale's first episode in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series wasn't the best note to start on, it still held some promise of ideas that could be explored. While…
June 26, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
It's been a wild ride for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. It may not have recaptured that magic the original series had, but I have found it to be a genuinely solid season that does a great job at…
June 7, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
I have a strange love for spelling games, especially ones that mix in some RPG elements. About a year ago, I gave Letter Quest a shot but ultimately found it kind of lacking. However, the itch to…
May 23, 2017 | 08:00 EDT
As we come to the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier we find the characters of Javier and David to be stuck in a tight spot. With the town of Richmond turning itself inside out…
May 13, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
I've always had mixed feelings about the Syberia series. The tone-building and environmental design always stood out as the work of a master auteur, but the first two games fell apart due to their…
May 1, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Telltale's continued objective of making a game with every single IP available is going strong, and their latest grab is Guardians of the Galaxy. This is one IP that I always thought would be the…
April 23, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
After the explosive two episode premiere of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, I was wondering where the series would go next. The twist at the end of the second episode really had me excited, and now…
April 2, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The Walking Dead was the game that kickstarted Telltale's new direction of episodic games that were heavy on story and light on traditional adventure. Whether you agree with the direction the company…
January 3, 2017 | 01:00 EST