There are some games you come across in this industry that manage to merge two seemingly conflicting ideas to great effect. Likewise, there are some concepts that, when mashed together, prove disastrous in execution. Like a peanut butter and gravy sandwich, Lost Orbit is a game that is mostly entertaining,

There aren’t many game mechanics as frustrating as weapon degradation. Getting attached to a certain tool of destruction, spending time and resources making it that perfect implementation of your destructive will, only to have it snap in half on the brow of a low-level mob is pretty infuriating. The

My first hour with Operation Abyss was spent lazily reading over screen after screen of text, trying to best absorb the heavy amounts of info dumped at the outset of the game. My first dungeon was similar, trouncing enemy after enemy until I reached the correct square in the grid

You know want to know what’s a bad feeling? Recording a podcast and realizing your mic wasn’t functioning after the fact. Eric is joined by Niko and Sean this week while Kenneth sounds like he’s miles away because his microphone was not properly plugged into his computer.

The Arkham Knight YouTube Channel has released a new video featuring  “the voice talent behind some of the most notable characters in Batman: Arkham Knight.” In the video, we see Kevin Conroy as Batman, John Noble as Scarecrow, Johnathan Banks as James Gordon, and Ashley Greene as Barbara Gordon. They

Over a decade ago, I lost something important to me. As a teenager, I didn’t quite realize it at the time, but a game studio that had very much shaped my gaming preferences and was largely responsible for my gaming passions in the first place was about to go

A few weeks ago, I checked out a short horror adventure game called “The Charnel House Trilogy.” It was a rainy afternoon, dreary outside, and I was really intrigued by the aesthetic and premise behind it. What followed was an incredible experience, and I immediately wanted to know more – about

There aren’t many characters in games that have grabbed me as quickly as Borderlands’ Handsome Jack. Unlike most fans of this Hyperion dictator, my first exposure to Handsome Jack was through TellTale’s Tales from the Borderlands (which I’m currently reviewing here at Gaming Trend), and in the