H1Z1: Just Survive Daybreak Studios As I mentioned in my recent review of H1Z1’s other game King of the Kill, the whole zombie/survival horror craze has been waning lately. Take Daybreak’s decision to split their new zombie franchise, H1Z1, up… Read More »H1Z1: Just Survive (Early Access) Review – Sporadic Fun
Dying Light: The Following Techland Let me start by saying any of my gaming friends or anyone who reads my reviews on a regular basis knows that I’m not the biggest zombie fan. For me, zombies fit right in-between wolfmen… Read More »Dying Light: The Following Review – Thankfully Not Following The Bozak
Counter-Strike Global Offensive Valve Games I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve had some rather unhealthy gaming addictions in the past. These began with the little gold box edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games, such as Pool of… Read More »Counter-Strike Global Offensive Review – A Fast-Twitch Gamer’s Dream
The Telltale Walking Dead Series Telltale Games If one looks back on my body of work as a game reviewer, a thread will begin to emerge. That common denominator is that I am infatuated by survival games, particularly of… Read More »The Telltale Walking Dead Series Review – A Unique Thrill Ride
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs The Chinese Room Amnesia: The Dark Descent was, for me at least, the survival horror game that ushered in the new wave of horror games that we’re currently riding on. Recent entries such as Alien:… Read More »Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Review – Spooky Enough?
Dying Light Techland My partner and I leapt from rooftop to rooftop—well, at least I did, while he tended to land haphazardly on the sides of many of their jagged, rusty overhangs. From there he’d scramble back up to… Read More »Dying Light Review – Jumping the Sharks
SOMA Frictional Games I was guiding SOMA’s main protagonist, Simon, down an underwater corridor which reminded me of a decrepit, submerged version of one of the gloomy hallways on board the dilapidated space station Sevastopol, in Alien: Isolation. Just as… Read More »SOMA – No One Can Tell When You Wet Yourself in the Deep Blue Sea
The Evil Within Tango Gameworks After recently playing the little indie survival-horror gem Outlast, I wondered why there was such a lack of really scary games out there for the gaming PC community. Sure, Alien: Isolation as well as the… Read More »The Evil Within – Does it Deliver the Survival-Horror Goods?
Dead Space 3 Visceral Games My comrade and I, me a lowly space engineer and he a soldier, floated through the cold vacuum of space while gaping wide-eyed at the beautiful iridescent glow of the nearby planet. We’d originally entered… Read More »Dead Space 3 – Plenty Heard Us Scream