The Escapists: The Walking Dead takes the puzzle-RPG formula of the original game and soaks it in walker entrails. Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, is realized in 8-bit form: from the moment protagonist Rick Grimes wakes up in the abandoned Harrison Memorial Hospital to when

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate that showcases the different historical figures that will exist in the game’s narrative. People like Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto, and Charles Darwin, pioneer in studies on evolution, will

Usually when you think of the apocalyptic wastes from some of your favorite games, the mind travels to a place where great evil exists, delivering a snapshot of some brutal act you’ve committed in the aftermath of nuclear winter. Perhaps it is the nature of the setting, but even

Near the end of September, seemingly out of nowhere, The Stanley Parable writer Davey Wreden announced that he had a new game coming out on October 1. This announcement was accompanied by labeling it a narrative video game, posting a few teaser screenshots, retweeting some praise about how it’s

On this week’s episode of the GT Reboot Podcast, we’re making up for lost time after last week’s show fell into an abyss of technical issues. Kenneth sums up his thoughts on the Nathan Drake Collection while Eric talks about reservations he has about Star Wars: Battlefront’

Nearly every Sunday since the original Rock Band came out, my family gets together for dinner, a movie, and some clicky-plastic-instrument fun. Hundreds of songs, and nearly seven years later, Harmonix has brought the series to a new generation of consoles in Rock Band 4. Having spent hundreds of hours,

Have you ever gazed up at the stars and wondered what it’d be like travelling from system to system, hoping to see the wonders of the universe? Elite: Dangerous gives us a taste of that, and while it’s been available on the PC for some time now, the

The Talos Principle is a calm, reflexive game that wants you to question the very nature of existence. It’s a big ask for anything, let alone a video game, but The Talos Principle succeeds because of its engaging puzzles, its tranquil pacing, and its thought provoking yet unpretentious narrative.