As bizarre as it might sound, I consider Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth to be the first game to give me the “Dark Souls experience.” Initially, the game just seemed like a long series of challenges that sometimes seemed completely arbitrary and complicated, that also happened to throw together

War. It’s a common thing in video games as is the violence that results from it. Very few games remember the horrors of war, and that is the core of This War of Mine. You don’t play as a muscled soldier, gruff commander, or spy. You play as

When the original LEGO Star Wars hit store shelves in 2005, no one really knew what to expect.  LEGO had long been a toyline that many people had fond memories of playing with in their childhood, but how would a LEGO video game work?  It turned out that not only

I stare at the quandary before me, its various tools strewn about in such a way as to be difficult to attain, and yet subtly instructing me on how to solve it. I flit between pressure plates and electronic gate jammers, slowly making headway toward a floating tetromino, gated off

Assassin’s Creed Rogue at once shows the series at its most derivative, as well as its most inventive. Rogue is an incredibly last-gen game, featuring recycled environments from Assassin’s Creed III and Black Flag along with outdated visuals that feel like they’re breaking at the seams on

In the world of boardgames, it seems as though zombies are divisive. You either love them, or you hate them. I understand those who are not enthused by the ridiculous premise of undead corpses causing a ruckus. I, however am married to a zombie fanatic. I like the occasional zombie

The original LittleBigPlanet was one of those rare gems that immediately became an instant classic the moment it hit the shelves. With a unique charm all of its own, it took the familiar concept of classic platforming and turned it on its head by offering a simple, yet intuitive, in-game

Bringing sports to board games has been a difficult proposition. The Strat-o-matic series allowed people to create their teams using real baseball players. 1st and Goal uses cards to call plays and dice to determine the yardage. Spring-loaded levers were used to pop a ping pong ball to try to