PC Reviews

I always feel some amount of fear when I start playing a game that I’m looking forward to from a fledgling developer. Unlike AAA games that come out after huge marketing blitzes and follow relatively predictable patterns, there’s no way of telling how a game from a studio

Plenty of games have either taken inspiration from Diablo or been developed as direct successors to it. Most of them try to mimic its infinitely addictive gameplay, macabre art, and pitch-black tone, but Book of Demons, a dungeon crawler that wears its debt to Diablo on both sleeves, takes a

I think I’ve had a good laptop sampling pool — better than most I’d argue. I’ve recently owned high-end offerings from MSI, OriginPC, Microsoft, and Dell. I now get to round that list out with what seems to be the most sleek and powerful combination of hardware and

I’ve always had a somewhat strained relationship with turn-based tactical games. In theory, the idea of coordinating a squad and cleverly using limited resources to overcome difficult opponents appeals to me. But in practice, I’ve found them frustrating more often than not. There are often gaps in the

Video games are weird in ways that still impress me. On the tasty end of that mad spectrum is Ultra Space Battle Brawl. Part tennis, part battle, and part halfway house, Ultra Space Battle Brawl is a hodge-podge of strange characters engaged in a space bash. At its core, however,

Survivalism is a huge deal across the United States and beyond, but I have always seen it as gaming the system. Preparing for some unforeseen disaster scenario by stockpiling supplies is very much akin to preparing for some unforeseen jump in beanie baby pricing by hoarding the toys. At best

A pencil chewed up by an anxious adolescent, a beaten notebook opened to a (mostly) fresh page, and one uneventful lecture—the optimal conditions for every student’s favorite pastime: doodling. And much like the art of doodling, Escape Doodland is a buffet of randomness; no one knows where they’

It’s been six years since Darksiders II, and I’m as surprised as the next person that we ever got to see this sequel. THQ folded, Vigil Games followed suit, and the rights to Darksiders were scattered to the wind like ash. Against impossible odds, the team from Vigil