Conarium Zoetrope Interactive H.P. Lovecraft is one of the first weird fiction authors that I read as a kid. Other luminary authors within the venerable and mostly forgotten genre include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James, and Edgar Allen Poe,… Read More »Conarium Review – Does it Do Justice to the Works of H.P. Lovecraft?
Dead by Daylight Behaviour Digital/Starbreeze Studios I watched on in spectator mode as my gaming buddy—the last Survivor—strode on through the dilapidated auto wrecker yard. The yard’s many patches of overgrown weeds provided him with limited concealment opportunities, where he’d… Read More »Dead by Daylight Review – After One Year it Finally Emerges as a True Fright-Fest
Empyrion – Galactic Survival Eleon Game Studios While the rest of the survival genre is pretty much on fire right now, with games such as Conan: Exiles, Ark – Survival Evolved, and Rust as popular as ever, science fiction survival… Read More »Empyrion – Galactic Survival – A Hidden Space Exploration Gem
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – Fallen Ghosts DLC Ubisoft The shooter genre (first and third person) is going stronger than ever right now, and its popularity shows no signs of abating. The genre as a whole can basically be… Read More »Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – Fallen Ghosts DLC Review – Worth the Wait?
Empyrion – Galactic Survival Eleon Game Studios Survival and crafting games are harkening in a new era of the gaming industry. When I think back to games that I used to play when I was younger, during the dawn of… Read More »Empyrion – Galactic Survival – No Man’s What?
Tekken 7 Bandai Namco Entertainment Okay, I’ll just come right out and admit it—I’ve had a long and heated romance with fighting games throughout my whole life. Ever since I first started playing Street Fighter 2 back in 1991 I… Read More »Tekken 7 Review – Tekken is Back
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Tripwire Interactive, Antimatter Games/Iceberg Interactive We’d finally done it—the Vietnamese forces had been pushed back to their final stronghold which was the inner part of Hua City, courtesy of the U.S. Army. Our company of grunts… Read More »Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Review – One Heck of an Immersive Military Shooter
Endless Space 2 Amplitude Studios/Sega Six hours into my first game of Endless Space 2, I’d managed to carve out a pretty expansive region of the galaxy for my burgeoning civilization of tree people. The Unfallen as they are referred… Read More »Endless Space 2 Review – A New Challenger Arises
Friday the 13th: The Game IllFonic/Gun Media When it comes to the gaming industry as a whole, sometimes I sit back and think—why hasn’t this type or that type of game been made yet? One of those glaring vacuums within… Read More »Friday the 13th: The Game Review – All About the Social Aspect of Dying and Killing
Rust Facepunch Studios We moved our digital characters’ little footsies as fast as they would carry us—all ten of our raiding party that is. We were heading towards the crest of a hill ahead of us, just as the morning… Read More »Rust (Alpha) Review – An Fun Yet Masochistic Survival Experience
Rust Facepunch Studios My digital avatar stood with his feet frozen to the spot, as stiff as the snowy biome that my two friends and I had decided to erect our base in. I gazed across a flowing river at… Read More »Rust (Alpha) Review – An Addictively Grueling Survival Experience
Bayonetta PlatinumGames I’ll have to admit that Bayonetta popped up on my gaming radar quite by coincidence. I haphazardly saw an advertisement for it on Steam while browsing for some games to review the other day, and noticed how intriguing… Read More »Bayonetta Review – One Riotous Romp