PC Reviews

I bought my Pentium 100mhz PC to play Command & Conquer.  I upgraded it as the franchise grew, and I was sad to see the series head in some bizarre directions as it progressed.  Many of the people behind that storied franchise left Westwood when it was bought by Electronic

It’s been rough decade or so for space simulation games. There have been a few pretty good ones, but nothing truly great for a while. This was sad, because I remember the great space combat games like X-Wing, the more simulator-oriented games like Orbiter, and even the more open

When I first heard about this game, I immediately looked it up and read the words “4X Turn-Based Strategy Game set in space.” I was also immediately interested, as that description has all the things I love in my games. I like strategy, I like space, and some things about

Never has a game made me question my own existence. Now, it wasn’t anything so grandiose as me wondering if I’m even real (or, what if, like, we’re all just someone’s dream, man?). I know I’m real. I’m typing these words onto the page,

Before the simulator, before the platformer, and before whack-a-mole, there was pinball. Forever lurking somewhere in the corners of the gaming world, pinball has persisted for over seventy years as one of gaming’s most simultaneously overlooked and addicting genres. While entertaining, it’s often been approached as a novelty,

World of Warcraft has been around so long it surprises me that it’s still something so many people are playing and thinking about. I can’t believe a game I started playing back in college, before I had any real work experience, before I had a wife, before a

War. It’s a common thing in video games as is the violence that results from it. Very few games remember the horrors of war, and that is the core of This War of Mine. You don’t play as a muscled soldier, gruff commander, or spy. You play as

As the sweeping score of Valkyria Chronicles rushed to meet my ears and the introduction sequence started to roll, sweet memories of the past came to me. It was six years ago; I was younger back then, sitting before my new piece of hardware with the few games I had