The chimera were a plague on us all. They destroyed our livelihoods, killed countless among us, and terrorized us all. From that terror, emerged the Phoenixborn. These powerful beings were humanity’s only chance at survival. Together they defeated the chimera. However, before the ashes of the war had even

The average video game show floor today is more crowded with indies than it has ever been, so it can be challenging for developers to make their game stand out. When I took a look at developer We The Force’s 2D metroidvania game, “Randall,” my first question was, “what

Josh’s Opinion Helldivers doesn’t quite capture the intensity and brutality of the many galactic battles we see in films like Starship Troopers or Aliens, but it makes a decent effort. From Arrowhead Game Studios (the makers of Magicka) comes a bread-and-butter top-down shooter that has a few kinks

Hatoful Boyfriend was one of the stranger games I played this year. Both a silly tale of a human girl going to school with, and consequently falling in love with, pigeons, and a striking commentary on visual novels as a whole, it managed to parody many aspects of the genre

The Dynasty Warriors experience is one that seems best-suited to portability. It thrives in quick bursts of action, occupying your hours with numbing yet cathartic chaos, and tons of replayability in the many modes and maps available. Indeed, Dynasty Warriors 8 offered an engaging Warriors experience when it first released,

France’s countryside in the 1830s was a treacherous place to travel at night.  As the tavern masters of The Bloody Inn, you can show travelers that trusting the wrong people can be just as unwise. The game places you, and the players who choose to join you, as runners

Dragons: Riders of the Berk Collector’s Edition adds to the story of viking dragon-riders from the popular film and television series. This comic series tells new stories, setting out to bring the characters into a new medium. It does that and then stops dead, with no apparent ambition to

In Norse mythology, the word “eitr” refers to a substance that is the source of all living things, yet is also corrupting and poisonous to all that touch it. This was part of the inspiration for Eitr, an isometric action game from Eneme Entertainment, that would fall under the common