A few years ago, EA’s NHL series was considered one of the best sports franchises around. It would consistently make key iterations on important features, all while maintaining the style that brought fans out every release day to purchase the game. That all changed last year with the series’
Last year I declared that Forza Horizon 2 was the best racer I’d played in a decade. I also declared that I liked Forza Horizon 2 more than I liked Forza Motorsport. A tough pill to swallow, unless you are Playground Games, but Turn 10 is back with the
It’s been four years since Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure shook up the industry with it’s trailblazing toy-based gameplay, enticing a new generation of young gamers and inspiring everyone from Disney, Lego, and even Nintendo into getting in on the action. Unlike it’s upstart competitors, however, Skylanders has
Blues and Bullets is a game having an identity crisis. Sometimes, it is an adventure game, based around exploration and investigation. Other times, it’s an on-rails shooter. Half of the time it is telling a gritty, hard-boiled noir drama. The other half, a story about a ritualistic occult. And
I actually used to think that I was good at building things. Seriously. All of the men in my family have been carpenters for generations, and I have built castles in Minecraft that I always considered to be pretty impressive, so I’ve always sorta assumed that it was a
Some things never go out of style, and one of those things is undoubtedly the original 8-bit Megaman games. Originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), these six titles were the some of the original platformers and have since been the inspiration for countless other titles. With Megaman Legacy
Gears of War is immediately evocative of bro-moments (broments?), bro-talk, bro-kills, and a general bro-ness that was brought on by the near-cuddlefest between protagonists Baird and Dom. Whether you loved the sequels or hated them dearly, there is one thing that is certain – the first title kicked every square inch
The Formula 1 racing series is well-known for its realism, and with F1 2015 this was developer Codemasters Racing’s first opportunity to bring that realism to the next level on the newest generation of hardware. Unfortunately, while F1 2015’s driving simulation and track recreation are entirely on-par with
