Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Ghost War Ubisoft When Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands first came out earlier this year, it was both lauded and maligned by two distinct sets of gamers. One contingent dismissed the game outright because… Read More »Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Ghost War Review – Solid, Tactical, Multiplayer Fun
The Evil Within 2 Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Software The survival horror genre as a whole has “evolved” if you will, in leaps and bounds in recent years. Since its inception in the 1990s, we’ve seen survival horror go from games that… Read More »The Evil Within 2 Review – Bring a Fresh Change of Underwear
StarCraft: Remastered Blizzard Entertainment I fondly remember the golden age of real-time strategy games, and sometimes let my mind drift back to how good things really were as far as that venerable genre was concerned. We had the various… Read More »StarCraft: Remastered Review – Bringing Back Those Great Memories
Distrust Cheerdealers As an indie horror film director myself, I’ve been weaned on a lifelong diet of horror films, all the way from the 50s on up to around the early 90s, when the vast majority of them started becoming… Read More »Distrust Review – Fun-Theme Wrapped Around a Somewhat Disappointing Flaw
The Long Dark Hinterland I’ve become a pretty big fan of survival games, at least the few good ones out there. To me, what makes a survival experience great is its atmosphere, as well as its game mechanics. While… Read More »The Long Dark Review – Realistic Survival Goodness
Miscreated Entrada Interactive LLC I’ll never forget my first game of Miscreated, well over a year ago. A friend and I dropped into a server with a low player count so that we could learn the basics of the game,… Read More »Miscreated (Early Access) Review – A Fierce Fight for Survival
Total War Warhammer II Creative Assembly/SEGA Ever since I played pen and paper role-playing games, mainly Dungeons & Dragons, I’d always known about the Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniatures game. I couldn’t afford them at the time, and so thought… Read More »Total War Warhammer II Review – Perhaps the Greatest Total War Experience Yet
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack Paradox Interactive The good folks over at Paradox Interactive are hardly resting on their laurels. Fresh off of the astonishingly grand Utopia DLC, comes the release of their new Synthetic Dawn Story Pack for Stellaris.… Read More »Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack Review – Resistance is Futile!
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Larian Studios There haven’t been many epic fantasy RPG video games that I’ve seen come out lately. When I mean epic, I mean multiplayer experiences that evoke the magical feeling of pen and paper games, such… Read More »Divinity: Original Sin 2 Review – A Masterful Love Letter to the Classic RPGs of Yore
Absolver Sloclap/Devolver Digital I’ve been a longtime lover of fighting games, ever since I first played Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and its sequels back in the early to mid-90’s. I also got into my first 3D fighting series,… Read More »Absolver Review – A Unique Fighting Experience Marred by a Few Issues
Endless Space 2 – Target Locked Update Amplitude Studios Besides fantasy RPGs, science fiction games have to be my favorite genre, whether they be in actual pen-and-paper form, mass media (books, movies), or video games. Luckily, we’re in an age… Read More »Endless Space 2 – Target Locked Update Review – The Little Guys Finally Join the Fray
Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition Cyanide Studio The Warhammer universe has seen a lot of play as of late. The venerable IP is on par with Dungeons & Dragons as far as its ubiquity is concerned. However, whereas I can… Read More »Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition Review – Football, Warhammer-Style