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The Holy Grail. An almighty wish-granting device, able to fulfill any desire only for those who are worthy. War erupts every few generations of magi, pitting the major families of magic users against each other and summoning ancient heroes and legends to be their comrades-in-arms as Master and Servant. Yet

Evolve is, arguably, the spiritual successor to the mega-hit Left 4 Dead series.  Developer Turtle Rock Studios created an entire world called Shear, as well as a massive backstory full of soldiers, monsters, and massive Kaiju-like beasts.  The asymmetric 4v1 monster hunter did pretty well in our review, but you

When non-gamers want to point to a symbol of videogames, it’s typically either World of Warcraft, or more commonly, Halo that comes to mind.  Bungie’s title helped to shape modern shooters forever, introducing the world to concepts that persist today. “Combat Evolved” indeed.  The team at Insight Editions

Total War Attila was just released (February 17th, 2015), but it is hardly Creative Assembly’s first march into battle.  The team has been honing their battlecraft since the first title’s release in June of 2000.  Shogun: Total War was a rousing success, leading the team to create ten

When you write a book and declare the top 100 console games of all time, it’s a bit of a sticky subject.  Top lists of any kind are always subjective, but it’s the conversation that arises from those lists that are always entertaining.  “Why didn’t you include

Being committed to a fiction requires more than a slick veneer to pull your audience in.  It requires a great deal of backstory, detail, and in the case of Assassin’s Creed, filling in large swaths of history.  The team at Insight Editions did exactly that last year for The

This is how it’s done. There are art books that I’ve checked out in the past that give you the journey from inception to release, but others that seem to focus almost exclusively on the final product. The latter makes for a far more compelling look behind the

I bet if I stopped somebody on the street and asked them to hum the theme to Game of Thrones they’d likely look at me like I’d lost my mind.  They’d also, more than likely, be one of the 14.2 million viewers that have come to