As I soared through the battle-worn skies of Corneria, enemy fighters continued to close in with their lasers directed right at me. I continued to dodge enemy fire, my furry animal companions not always faring so well, calling out to their leader for assistance before being shot down. I quickly

Movie tie-in titles, especially ones for children’s movies, are almost universally laughably unappealing.  They’re usually either reskins of other games or half-assed attempts at simply retelling a movie’s story.  Paddington, a point-and-click title for 3DS, is, almost astoundingly, not one of those titles.  While it doesn’t

What I saw of Horizon Zero Dawn at E3 this year made me feel a sense of desperation that the grittiest of survival games have never managed to create within me. Games like the Tomb Raider reboot and The Last of Us have aimed to create a feeling that the

The big daddy of fighting games is back, and for the first time in almost a decade, we’re getting a completely new Street Fighter in Street Fighter V. This is no Arcade Edition or patch update; SFV revamps the system from the ground up, changing up the way you

A wise man once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Words can topple regimes and enrapture millions, and in Typoman, words are everything. I got to demo the puzzle-platformer from Brainseed Factory in an early build on the show floor, and the intersection of words and gameplay into

Kosmos has been publishing games for a long time, but you might not recognize them.  Most of their games have been published in Europe under their name, most of their games have been published in the USA though other publishers.  Now they have decided to publish their games under there

Hello! Welcome to Friday Tabletop Kickstarter Update! For info on what is going on here, check out this introduction. Just when I think I have seen everything, Kickstarter projects remind me that there are some really creative people out there. This week has some very interesting and original themes and

At one time to get a full RPG experience you needed to be sitting in front of a TV with a console in front of you. As technology moved forward and systems got smaller, some classic RPGs made their way to portable systems. While these portable devices have become more