Typing of the Dead: Overkill Review
Sleeper Hit!Bronze AwardOffbeat GemReading Rainbow Meets Dawn of the Dead As a writer/critic for SpawnFirst, there are two things that I tend to spend a great amount of time doing: typing and killing zombies. Since zombies are second only to Russians as the go...
Battlefield 4 Review
Same Game, Better Graphics “Realistic” first-person military shooters have been getting on my nerves quite a bit lately. First, there is a least one that comes out every year due to the success of Call of Duty 4: Mo...
How to Survive Mega-Review
Offbeat GemFollow These Rules and You’ll Survive…Probably When How to Survive first appeared on my radar, I was almost immediately sold. A survival horror game with a crazy Russian guy teaching me how to live during a zombie apoca...
The Wolf Among Us: Episode One – Faith Review
Silver AwardWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Telltale Games brought the graphic adventure back into relevancy last year with the The Walking Dead.  The Walking Dead  was a perfect marriage of gameplay and narrative, so much so th...
Ascend: Hand of Kul Review
No Strings Attached I’ll be honest: I hate microtransactions. I don’t like it when they’re shoved in my face, like they were in Dead Space 3 (which I enjoyed). I especially don’t like it when I canR...
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Mega-Review
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto Hideo Kojima has made great strides in the world of gaming, but Raiden is not one of them. Ever since his first appearance in Metal Gear Solid 2, the character has received poor reception from fans and c...
Shadow Warrior 2013 Quickies Review
Gold AwardSlasherJPC’s at it again with a Quickies Review of Shadow Warrior, and he doesn’t disappoint. Let’s just say that his review adequately reflects the gameplay craziness, ridiculous gore, and unexpected humor fo...
Papers, Please Review
Papers, Please is one of those games that it’s easier to like the idea of than it is the implementation.  If there are some lessons, any lessons, from Papers, Please, it’s that life is hard, work is hard, and de...
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death Review
Offbeat GemKilling Him Will Only Piss Him Off One of the things I hold proudly in my obsession with video games is the drive I have to play games that fly under the radar, or the ones that just don’t “fit in” with the ot...
Lone Survivor Director’s Cut Review
Offbeat GemLone Survivor makes PS3 less … Lonely Lone Survivor was first released on PC, Linux and Mac by Jasper Byrne last year and has since been ported over to PS3. It features a “Lone Survivor”, a plush cat toy and s...
Fuse Review
A Fusion of Action, RPG, and Boredom After years of Playstation exclusives, Insomniac Games is back with not only a new IP, but the first game in their line-up to be on both the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360. This game was t...
Grand Theft Auto V Mega-Review
Editor's ChoiceGold AwardHoly.  Crap. Grand Theft Auto V is, in a word, awesome. It’s hard to find a game that so seamlessly combines gameplay and story in a way that isn’t just rewarding– it’s impossibly fun. The characters a...
Dead Space 3 Review
Less Horror, More Microtransactions It is difficult not to compare the Dead Space series with the “Alien” franchise simply because they are very similar. Dead Space is like “Alien” because it was more ...
Anarchy Reigns Review
Introduce a Little Anarchy As the beat ’em up genre slowly fades into obscurity and fighting games try to stay relevant after the passing of the arcade generation, it is nice to see a developer take a stab a creating a ga...
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Review
Silver AwardLet The Tournament Begin! Team Ninja, the developer of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, have brought forth a game that can be enjoyed by players of all skill levels. Whether you’re a player who likes to knuckle down and master ...
