Call of Duty: Black Ops III Treyarch Studios Everyone knows that I am very upfront and vocal in my vehemence and general distain for the Call of Duty franchise. Running around haphazardly like some sort of spastic orangutan, leaping this… Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops III—A Nonsensical Overload on the Senses
Fallout 4 Bethesda Software My adopted canine companion and I carefully navigated through the rubble-strewn Boston suburb, scavenging for anything of value. I was role-playing Fallout 4’s main protagonist to the extent that I’d decided that ultimately, he wanted to… Read More »Fallout 4—A Compelling, Story-Driven Experience
Titanfall Respawn Entertainment I have to admit that I wasn’t exactly chomping at the bit when I’d first heard of Titanfall. I’d read some first impression reports that just said meh to me. Here’s a conversation that I had at… Read More »Titanfall—Fleeting Fun for Fast Twitchers
Tranformers: Devastation Platinum Games/Activision The 80s Transformers cartoon was an exercise in some of the loftiest exponents of philosophical dogma I’ve ever encountered. To me it was the embodiment of Aikido, the Gentle Way, where a martial artist seeks to… Read More »Tranformers: Devastation—A Love Letter to 80s Cartoon Nostalgia
Insurgency New World Interactive Glass shattered behind us as we ran down the wide hallway, and large caliber 7.62 rounds whizzed through the air all around us. We dove behind a desk for cover as the fully automatic PKM machinegun… Read More »Insurgency—A Thinking Person’s Shooter
Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide Fatshark Games I stared ahead, above the shiny bald pate of my stubby dwarven ranger companion, Bardin. I was playing as Markus, a human Empire soldier, war-weary and eager to return to his simple family… Read More »Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide – A Pretty Fun Romp through Familiar Waters
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm Tripwire Interactive The staccato of automatic weapons firing cut into the Sergeant’s gruff yelling of orders. Pieces of debris blown off of the group of boulders that our five-man squad was hunkered down behind flew… Read More »Rising Storm — A Unique Spin on a Tired Genre
Metro 2033: Redux 4A Games The video gaming industry is in a state of flux. On the one hand, the gaming community (especially the gaming PC crowd) have been treated to graphics that we couldn’t have imagined possible a few… Read More »Metro 2033: Redux — A Delightful Little Surprise
Wasteland 2 InXile Entertainment Wasteland 2 is the official sequel to 1998’s venerated cult classic, Wasteland. It’s an attempt to combine old school story-driven PC gaming with today’s more updated graphics and combat mechanics. To those ends, it succeeds. Wasteland… Read More »Wasteland 2 – Out on the Fringes with some Old School-Style Goodness
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Ubisoft Studios We were hunkered down in the bush; our four-man team had been dropped off clandestinely from a helicopter hours earlier. As I looked on at the largely arid landscape, with patches of… Read More »Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – Stealth Action Redefined