“Bleak” is a great word to describe the world of The Banner Saga. The sun has stopped setting, the apocalypse is coming, and people are dying all around the player. As the leader of the caravan, the player’s decisions constantly cause starvation, mutiny, and death. The Banner Saga 2

In 2011, the recidivism rate for outgoing prisoners was a gut-wrenching 43.3%, signalling the ever present failings of a criminal justice system that cannot rehabilitate.  The system suffers for putting ignorant and misguided youth both in the system and in the midst of career criminals.  I have a strong

Silence is one of the most effective tools in a composer’s arsenal. It’s contrasting, empty, vacuumous — in the right hands, silence sings as loud as a full horns section. Inside follows in the footsteps of Limbo, as two great games that utilize “silence,” punctuating loud moments with slower,

When a mysterious message comes in to Chief Engineer Lily Shen’s lab, the XCOM team is off to the races once again to find the source. The message is from her father, the now-deceased Chief Engineer Dr. Raymond Shen. Dr. Shen was responsible for much of the technological advancements

With the career and work centereed expansions, it is time for the Sims to take a vacation, and luckily Outdoor Retreat offers just that. With a focus around camping, fishing, and collecting there is a lot of content in this game pack, although it may be the weakest game pack

I have a feeling that I’m not the only fool who gave good money for Elder Scrolls Online on the PlayStation 4 simply because of brand loyalty.  If you are like me, you’ve probably spent many hours in the game desperate to recreate the sense of control, adventure,

The original Dead Island started the series strong in 2011, whereas Riptide in 2013 made for a fairly weak follow-up. The maze-like areas serve to artificially lengthen the game, half of the main quests are centered around mowing down waves of zombies, the side quests are largely uninteresting, and there

The Technomancer takes place in the relatively distant future, 200 years after humanity has colonized Mars. Players take on the role of Zachariah Mancer, a member of the technomancer order on Mars. As a technomancer, Zachariah is a mutant who can control the destructive elemental power of electricity. Early on