Battle Focused Nirvana A year after the surprise sleeper hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown wowed the RTS and turn-based crowd, the XCOM brand started regaining steam proper. Added to that there was also some development going on a game c...
Devils Never Cry There has been a fairly large amount of controversy with the reboot of Devil May Cry. When the aesthetic changes to the series’ iconic character Dante were revealed, fans of the franchise were immediate...
The Man on the Moon “Suda51” is a name that’s synonymous with “strange”. Goichi Suda has been involved with the creation of some of the oddest games to have ever been released, from killer7 to N...
You Can’t Stop the Blacklist It’s very rare that a sequel can live up to its predecessor, and even moreso when the sixth installment makes a run at the best game in the series. Well, I can safely say that Splinter Cell:...
This Ain’t Your Momma’s Punk Rock I’ve played literally hundreds of sidescrolling brawlers in my lifetime, and quite frankly I’m sick of them. I know the drill. Tap one or two buttons until an enemy falls, rinse and rep...
I Am My Brother’s Keeper It’s been a few days since I completed Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. I’ve been playing several other games since then, but I keep getting distracted. My mind keeps drifting back to ...
Prepare for utter mayhem, fantastical powers, a lot of hineys, and some incredibly crazy antics in this video review of Saints Row 4 by SlasherJPC (and that’s not even getting into the craziness in the actual gameplay vid...
Hands Up, Wallets Out You’re casing out a new bank in town, looking for a way in that won’t rouse suspicion. You spot a backdoor with no security camera, pop on your mask and start picking the lock. Once inside you knock ou...
Ride to Hell? Damn Straight Rarely do I play games that leave me absolutely speechless after I’ve completed them. They either have to be really, really great…or really, really bad. Ride to Hell: Retribution is reall...
There’s something slightly incongruous about looking to a game like BioShock: Infinite for combat.  This isn’t to say that Infinite’s combat doesn’t have some serious high points, but it would seem un...
Randomly Generated Goodness Cloudberry Kingdom is based on a novel – yet extremely promising – concept: It’s a platformer with nearly limitless replayability, because every level is randomly generated.  While this might ...
Driving Into a Wall It should come as a surprise to no one that Fast & Furious: Showdown sucks. It’s based on a film franchise. The developer, Firebrand Games, spent little to no time working on it. It was rushed out ...
I’ve always been a pretty big fan of third person shooters. I can’t even begin to put into words how many hours my roommate and I poured into horde mode on Gears of Wars 2. So when I was assigned to review Scourge: Outbrea...
LOVE AT FIRST BITE Amidst the influx of zombie games for the past few years, there have been very few games that have truly captured the intricacies and finer details about what it might actually be like to survive through a zo...
Finally, a Deadpool Game It’s been a long time coming, but everyone’s favorite fourth wall-shattering mutant mercenary for hire finally got his very own videogame. The game is lacking in some pretty major areas, but...