It was Ubisoft’s big surprise for their Press Conference, and it is easily one of the bigger surprises of E3. I’m, of course, talking about Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. It’s been a few years since our last outing with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but the

Strategy games are still a thing. I played Act of Aggression which is a mostly by-the-books real-time strategy game that harkens back to the days of Westwood’s Command & Conquer and Blizzard’s Starcraft. It has nothing to do with defending a tower or a lane, but it has

Currently, one of the hottest trends in video games is the growth of multiplayer. Within the past three years, we have seen an exponential growth in the amount of multiplayer games such as Towerfall and Nidhogg.  That trend has continued to grow, and one of the newest multiplayer games to

The year is 2029, just two years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The world has changed. At the end of the previous game, augmented individuals lost control of their implants, causing a global catastrophe. Though the world is still recovering, the populous has descended into fear and

When it comes to certain genres, some games just don’t play well using a controller. Chief among them are strategy games and board games, which are usually plagued by a poorly translated control scheme that hinders your ability to move around a battlefield efficiently. After some hands-on time with

After a night spent with the multiplayer of Black Ops III, I could only think of one word: control. Treyarch’s shooter wants to put you in control of as much of the game as possible, and then open the gameplay from there. Decision-making is critical to the combat loop

In SuperChargers, you play as a Skylander defending Skylands from the evil Kaos, who threatens the world with his “Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction,” which is capable of eating the sky.  With the help of Skylanders known as SuperChargers and all new land, sea, and air vehicles, the team has to

Guitar Hero Live isn’t the game you might be used to, and for a good while that had me worried.  You see, I’m a died-in-the-wool button-clicking Guitar Hero classic fan.  My family gets together every Sunday, playing our fake instruments.  It has been our Rock and Roll Fantasy