It’s Shantae! She’s here to save the town, but the town’s problems are a little too big for her cliche genie breeches. Platforming, belly-dancing, trancing out, and flailing her hair, Shantae does work in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and through some madcap comedy, serious danger, and lots of

Games based on comic books have come a long way, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past, the DC Deckbuilding Game, and Marvel Legendary becoming hits.  However, it’s not often that you’ll see a game based on a fictional comic book.  Other than Guardians Chronicles and

There’s nothing that brings me back to the 90s arcade era quite like the bullet hell genre. Pumping quarters to defeat blisteringly fast bosses all while memorizing patterns and avoiding endless streams of fire is how I liked spending my childhood days. The Wii U release of Teslapunk hearkens

I miss the music game scene over here. Back in the Rock Band/Guitar Hero heyday, I used to love seeing dozens of my friends play with plastic peripherals and having a good time strumming fake guitars or singing terrible karaoke. While the rhythm genre isn’t what it used

I’ve never played a game like Dynamic Pixels’ Hello Neighbor. It’s stealthy but playful, creepy but colorful, and sprinkled with light horror and humor. The game is currently in its third alpha phase, and looks both interesting and promising. You play as a man who just moved into

A dark hand reaches out over the galaxy. It’s changing minds, gaining power, and manipulating entire star systems. True heroes could go out to right this wrong…but all we have is you, and I guess that will do. Heart of the Fury is a sprawling pulp sci-fi campaign

New Bedford is certainly not the first game to be released with an unconventional theme. Greater than Game’s release about eighteenth century whaling is no more unique than, say, Takenoko’s feeding of pandas or Rococo’s dress designing in Renaissance era France. As the former games show, unusual

As an avid player of racing games, I always appreciated the novelty of the low-end plastic racing wheels and pedals that started becoming available as I was growing up. I look back on my days of playing Gran Turismo and Project Gotham Racing on console with my fifty dollar wheel,