Reviews
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903.8KBroken Age is familiar in all the right ways
Long-time fans of adventure games know the name Tim Schafer and hold his work in high esteem. For years, they’ve been pining...
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853.3KBrave fencer — Nidhogg review
Combos, combo breakers, reversals, air reversals, quarter-circle forward fierce -- fighting games have become so obfuscated by increasingly complex controls and move...
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806.2KValdis Story hurts so good
Bringing classic gameplay back to life is a double-edged sword. The “Metroidvania” platformer enjoyed its heyday some 15-20 years ago when Super...
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705.2KDriven around the bend – Forza Motorsport 5
Despite a long history of gradual improvements, the racing genre doesn't always reflect the real-world track life: there is one winner, and...
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905.8KValhalla trail — The Banner Saga review
Every action has a consequence. In order to survive, we do what it takes -- even if that survival comes at a...
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803.8KMy lightning, my prayer — Continue?9876543210 review
What is the meaning of life? Or death, for that matter? It’s the ultimate philosophical cliche. We strive for greatness -- or...
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855.7KDebate team deathmatch – Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc takes great pride in slowly unravelling its twisted, sadistic narrative. You play as Makoto Naegi, a high school...
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452.9KFree-to-play with a price
Somewhere in the course of history, we all decided that games needed to be shorter. Modern games tend to slot somewhere between...
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754.2K“Abandon Your Sense and Enjoy the Ride” – Lococycle
Twisted Pixel has earned something of a reputation for giving us some of the most bizarre games ever made. Lococycle, their most...
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754.3KThe Price of Freedom – ACIV Freedom Cry Review
In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, there is only a pair of references to Adéwalé’s skin color and how it affects his...
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654.5KSonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Review
Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed (hereafter Sonic Transformed) is Sega's most recent foray into the world of iOS gaming, providing some...
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803.5KHe ain’t heavy – Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Born to PC and WiiWare , Press Play’s character Max of Max and the Magic Marker was a well-received 2010 Windows Phone...
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703.8KGo with it — flOw
The original release of flOw was a simplistic experiment that showed that the PS3 had support for the artsy and indie community....
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154.2KFighter Within? We’d be better Without.
In the seventh console generation we saw an increased focus on motion controls, but the hardware just wasn’t capable of the 1:1...
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805.0KWe take to the skies with World of Warplanes
There are 75 million people registered in World of Tanks, with 1.1 million peak concurrent players. Let that number sink in -...
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853.3KIn space no one hears you blow up — Star Trek Attack Wing Review
For a while, the Star Trek universe felt like it had gone a bit stale with the end of Enterprise. That changed...
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604.1KThe Ryse and fall of the Roman Empire
Ryse: Son of Rome was originally announced in 2010 as Codename: Kingdoms, and was slated to be a Kinect game for the...
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705.3KThink small — Tiny Brains
Getting together and playing video games with your friends is tough these days. Games are getting packed with more and more online...
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852.5KTaking the long road — Via Appia Review
They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day. I have a feeling that neither were their roads. With Rome being a...
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903.5KBig Damn Heroes – Firefly: The Game Review
Modern Cult Science Fiction. Also known as Firefly. Like being hipster before it was cool, people didn’t know what Firefly was until...
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802.7KAsgard’s Chosen Review – The allfather of a new world but not its king
Interacting with gods can be difficult. You want them to do something nice for you now, like give you a new car,...
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752.6KWatch out for flying daikaiju — Tsuro of the Seas Review
While producing a game may be difficult, coming out with a sequel can be an even bigger challenge. How different must a...
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905.7KVicious eye candy – Review of Seasons
C20H25N30 — lysergic acid diethylamide. LSD. Acid. Back in the trippy days of LP records, half the experience of visiting a music...
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955.4KThose Endearing Old Charms – Teslagrad
If there is one emotion that games can capture better than any other medium, it is wonder. What does that button do?...
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853.7KTake Waterdeep with you — Lords of Waterdeep iOS Review
Worker placement games are very hit and miss for me. Sometimes they grab my attention, but others I have a problem getting...
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703.9KRock your guitar chops — Bandfuse: Rock Legends
Put away your plastic toy guitars. After Rocksmith showed us that it could be done two years ago, rhythm games with real...
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802.4KMolto Bene! Cinque Terre
Along a sun-drenched swath of the Italian Riviera lay the Cinque Terre, five towns resisting the temptations of progress in favor of...
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504.4KRun for your lives! – City of Horror review
Zombies are everywhere! Seriously... everywhere. On TV, in movies, books, comics... I am sure there is a song about zombies. They have...
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903.4KThe fighting game of the year isn’t on any console — BattleCON: Devastation of Indines
I have been a fan of fighting games since the token-eating machine Street Fighter II was released. I remember looking at strategy...
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204.7KSome Things are Better Left Behind — Blacksoul
In 2005, three games irrevocably altered the survival horror genre. Through the 90s and early 2000s, survival horror had essentially followed the...
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9011.3KAssassin’s Creed IV Black Flag – PlayStation 4 and Xbox One faceoff
I had very high praise for the current-gen version of Assassin’s Creed IV, but it’s the next-gen versions that everyone wants to...
