In terms of hybridity, few genres have received as many variations, mutations, and germination as the humble tower defense game. Beginning as relatively simple takes on real-time strategy staple…
February 2, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Senran Kagura Bon Appetit is a rhythm game featuring all of the characters from the series in head-to-head cooking battles. With the digital-only release of Senran Kagura BURST on the 3DS, the niche…
February 1, 2015 | 01:00 EST
The Evil Within is best summarized by comparing it to making a cake. While making it, great quality of ingredients was used, and equivalent measurements of each ingredient were used. But the problem…
February 1, 2015 | 11:00 EST
With the rise of indie games in the last few years, platformers have made a comeback as a popular choice for Indie Devs. A mixture of nostalgia, ease of coding, and a lot of different things to do…
January 30, 2015 | 10:00 EST
Mount and Blade Viking Conquest is an odd duck. An expansion for a four-year-old game is definitely something of an outlier, and with Mount and Blade Warband’s reputation, there are also higher…
January 28, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Capcom has a penchant for remakes, reimaginings, rereleases, remasters, and, of course, they are the creators of Resident Evil. Naturally, this remaster of the 2002 GameCube Resident Evil was not an…
January 24, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Duke Nukem 3D is a game of almost legendary status. When it was released in 1996, it was widely regarded as one of the best FPSs ever made. Its reputation was what lead to such eager anticipation of…
January 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
'Roguelike’ or ‘Roguelite’ is a term that has been thrown around very often in the past few years, generally meaning that a game has a randomly generated world each time you play, and should you die…
January 18, 2015 | 10:00 EST
MXGP is a frustrating package - for everything it does right, it does something else wrong. It's a game that will make you shake your head at the developers over at Milestone, because the foundation…
January 17, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Fifteen or so years ago, there was a running joke in the PC Gaming World about the proliferation of World War II First Person Shooters. If you liked firing virtual 70-year-old rifles at virtual Nazis…
January 15, 2015 | 09:00 EST
There is more than a little empathy to be had for the poor souls who work on annual sequels, for it is one of the most treacherous tightropes to walk alongside the licensed game and the sports…
January 14, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I Am Bread is, in many ways, a spiritual successor to Surgeon Simulator, both games created by Bossa Studios. But where Surgeon Simulator created an engaging and interesting experience by combining…
January 11, 2015 | 11:00 EST
Bit Dungeon 2 is a 2D dungeon crawling Rogue-Lite developed and published by KintoGames and released on December 14th. It's available on Steam, as well as Android and iOS. I hadn't heard about the…
January 9, 2015 | 09:00 EST
A while back, I received the privilege of reviewing Wrack, a cel-shaded first-person shooter developed by Final Boss Entertainment. My first impression from playing hours of Wrack, besides the…
January 8, 2015 | 09:00 EST
We first looked at Tales of Aravorn Seasons of the Wolf back in November as a preview in To The Green, and while it hasn’t made it onto Steam yet, it will be there in early 2015 as it has been…
January 6, 2015 | 01:00 EST
ArcaneSoul is the quest for a bigger combo. Big, flashy, glorious damage numbers splash out as you juggle groups of monsters in your crusade for gold, gear, and glory. The stages play out quickly in…
January 5, 2015 | 09:00 EST
One of the great things about racing games is the sheer versatility and ability to run the gamut of different experiences. The racing game world has seen basically everything from cyberpunk future…
January 2, 2015 | 09:00 EST
The year was 1996 - I was four. We had this old PC, and I always shared it with my two brothers. We each took twenty minutes before switching to the next person, with the aid of an egg timer. But…
December 26, 2014 | 09:00 EST
There's a reason why This War of Mine has gotten the hype and attention that it has gotten since its launch. In the world of video games, taking a view on some of the different elements of war isn't…
December 25, 2014 | 10:00 EST
The traditional way to consume B-movies, whether terrible in every regard or so bad it's awesome, is with a couple of cold beverages, the company of good friends, and the ability to enjoy something…
December 22, 2014 | 01:00 EST
If there needed to be a summary for Far Cry 4, it will be a mixture of manically detailing the fun of cooperatively fighting enemies with a friend, being dumbstruck by the beauty of the landscape as…
December 19, 2014 | 07:01 EST
One of the strangest trends in indie gaming over the past couple of years has been NES-styled platformers. Half banking on nostalgia and half banking on difficulty, most NES-inspired indies are…
December 18, 2014 | 01:00 EST
In terms of sheer content and possible time consumption, there aren't many video games that will give you as much bang for your buck as DA: I. In truth, there aren't really many products, in any form…
December 16, 2014 | 01:00 EST
I'll be honest. Right here, right now. The only things I found enjoyable about The Book of Unwritten Tales are the music, voice acting, and humor. That's about it. It's been a little more than a week…
December 7, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Sometimes, games make a trip across from console to PC. Many times these games are plagued with bad interfaces, poor optimization, and bugs that show a rushed porting job done by a team not…
December 7, 2014 | 11:00 EST
In many ways, Ziggurat is very much a throwback to the first-person shooters of old. From the combat mechanics to the fantasy pulp-style plot that bookends the opening and ending cutscenes. The game…
November 30, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Futuristic racers are seldom seen nowadays. At some point in history, they were all the rage, with F-Zero and Wipeout being some of the more popular and still very well-known. So how does a new…
November 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Very few games celebrate culture in the way that Never Alone does. There aren't many examples of games made to educate the player on the history and traditions of a rarely represented people. This…
November 27, 2014 | 11:00 EST
As a frequent critic of the Borderlands series it is rather jarring to admit that something unprecedented has occurred. Even as a regular customer of Telltale's products the unequivocal quality of…
November 26, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Magnetic By Nature is the tale of a robot lost deep underground in the remnants of what appears to be a 1920s Art Deco technological utopia. The Art Deco vibe carries throughout the whole game, tying…
November 23, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Sit down, kids, for I want to tell you a story. A story of a simpler time, with none of those fancy video cards or SLI or Crossfire or multicores nonsense. A time when the games were simple and let…
November 21, 2014 | 03:00 EST
One thing that I find oddly depressing on a personal level is that there are not enough video games about police officers. In United States culture, the police are one of the most divisive groups in…
November 21, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Get Off My Lawn! is not the type of game that I would have ever expected to find myself playing, given the stigma of ‘cell phone style’ titles. However, I decided to give the game a chance for as…
November 18, 2014 | 03:00 EST
Take control of an Archmage who is building a tower in a duel against his fiercest rival. Summon the power to construct rooms from your lair, bind dwarves to your service, and launch destructive…
November 18, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Master Chief is back in his first outing to the Xbox One, and while it may not be a new adventure, it is one that fans of the franchise have been looking forward to. Halo The Master Chief Collection…
November 17, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Having been on a bit of an indie kick lately what with playing Gone Home, State of Decay, and LocoRoco on PSP, I decided that this time I would review Home. Having missed all the fuss when it was…
November 16, 2014 | 03:00 EST
To anyone who's a recovering WoW-holic would know that sensation. That feeling keeps you staring at the computer screen and wondering if this is a good idea. Years were used, staring at colored…
November 14, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Only three months ago, Five Nights at Freddy's released for Desura and Steam. Now, three months later, the sequel has been released. One would expect this sequel to be nothing but a glorified…
November 12, 2014 | 03:00 EST
Deadstone isn't a head-turner, nor will it be fondly remembered several years down the road. The game has its strengths, with most of them lying in the gameplay category. For fans of the top-down…
November 12, 2014 | 02:00 EST
Infinite lives are a Catch-22 of design for platform games. If the designer gives the player infinite lives, then the designer has the freedom to be creative in level design to the point of being…
November 11, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Door Kickers is an interesting game. Sold by developer KillHouse Games as Real Time Strategy, you could be forgiven for thinking you would be controlling legions of police officers with riot shields…
November 10, 2014 | 01:00 EST
To get one thing out of the way, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare could be seen as the largest evolutionary Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare. However, despite a vastly upgraded/new engine, a new…
November 7, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Welcome to Sunset City at the dawn of the Awesompocalypse! Sunset Overdrive is the latest game from Insomniac the creative minds behind such franchises as Ratchet and Clank as well as the first three…
November 4, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Dreamfall Chapters Book 1: Rebirth (hereafter called Dreamfall Chapters in the name of sanity) takes us back to the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia that The Longest Journey saga has featured. The…
November 2, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Chuck's Challenge 3D is a top-down puzzle solving game much like Chip's Challenge was for the old Atari Lynx. In fact, both were made by the same person. Even better is that Chuck himself is inside…
October 30, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
Deep Dungeons of Doom is an 8-bit-era-inspired, dungeon-exploring RPG with subtly satisfying mechanics and a focus on monster slaying. It joins the company of recent games like Knightmare Tower,…
October 28, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
Endless-running games aren't really all that new when you look at the grand scheme of things. Games like Bit.Trip Runner have shown up all over the indie landscape, even in the flash game market.…
October 27, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
When I heard the news of The Legend of Korra game, I was just as surprised as many were. I then became interested when I saw some gameplay/commentary, but then I heard it was being made by Platinum…
October 26, 2014 | 01:00 EDT