By Brad Wardell (Stardock) and Ron Burke (GamingTrend) During both of our PC gaming lifetimes, we’ve always built our own machines. As putting together computers has consistently become simpler throughout the years (with the notable exception of having to worry about heat) an alarming trend of form over function

Vikings, knights, and samurai are three of the most iconic warrior archetypes in history. Each of them is well known for different reasons: Vikings for their ferocity and fearlessness in battle; knights for their stalwart nature, strong armor, and brutal weaponry; and samurai for their swordsmanship, skill, and grace. I

The key to a good video game is to make players want to keep coming back, whether it’s for an engaging story, thrilling action sequences, or simply beautiful scenery. With roguelikes, this becomes a bit more challenging: they have to tap into your sense of curiosity, leading you to

There’s always a lighthouse. Also, there’s always a remaster. The Bioshock series contains some of the most transformative titles in gaming, and possibly the most important games in the past decade, so a remaster of these legendary titles seems inevitable. We already know that the Bioshock series is

For some reason we ended up ranking Bioware’s best games in this podcast and it led to a lot of yelling. Mostly from Kenneth. But this week he, Eric, and Josh are joined by newcomer Mike Pearce as we talk PAX, Funimation’s being generally terrible, and the PlayStation

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is a strong follow-up to its 2013 predecessor, but it still suffers from the same problems. Apocalypse may boast solid combat and progression systems, but a lot of complaints from the former game are still valid in this entry, such as dull characters and choices

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A six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) shooter named Descent came out in 1995. Parallax Software, the developer, went on to create the sequel, Descent II as well. Descent 3, however, was developed by Outrage Games (an off-shoot of Parallax) and launched in 2000. At PAX West 2016, I enjoyed a game called Overload