Imagine trudging through a dark Louisiana swamp with a friend, hunting a demonic spider while avoiding various types of zombies and hell dogs. Sounds great, right? Now what if I told you that there were other pairs of monster hunters searching for the same spider…while simultaneously hunting you? This

There’s little doubt that Planet Coaster is one of my favorite games, having consumed a great deal of my time in Alpha, Beta, and release. At E3 I got to sit down with Sam Denney, Lead Artist for Frontier Games (aka Spoiler Sam if you watch the livestreams) to

One of the more polished games I played at E3 took me back in time to the 1980s. Outreach, the first game from indie studio Pixel Spill, is a first-person adventure game set in a Cold War-era space station. You play as a Russian cosmonaut who is investigating the disappearance

I had the pleasure of playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance at E3, and I’m now counting down the days until this title is released. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a brilliant trip through time to the medieval days in which you take on the role of Henry, the son of a

When a small number of titles dominate an entire genre, it can cause the entire genre to stagnate, drowning out competition and preventing innovation. It takes a dedicated, imaginative, and brave team to stand up against the giants of a genre, to build bridges, banish tropes and bring change. Such

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remains one of my favorite games in the series, largely because the game dispelled the typical flat cities of the series’ open worlds in favor of an open sea for players to explore by ship. Ubisoft is capitalizing on Black Flag’s innovative sailing and

Everything that we have come to expect is gone, all of the comforts that we are used to have been stripped away, and the world as we know it may never be the same. Mario is now in a turned-based tactical strategy game. Guided by Beep-O, a creature that resembles

I’ve just had a waking dream.   After a brief introduction from Lead Researcher Raymond Hayes, I’ve been injected into a PTSD simulation in its earliest form called “The Walter Case”.   Using the Oculus Rift, I slowly walk through what appears to be a three-bedroom house, but not everything