Game Reviews

If you like cult classic video games, you may remember Alan Wake. It’s one of my favorite video games, even though I never finished it. There’s just something about it, the atmosphere, the thriller aspect, the Twins Peaks-style ridiculousness. Remedy Games rightly marketed it as a psychological thriller,

Four decades ago, real-time strategy put down its roots in preparation for its conquest of the strategy world. And conquer it did; RTS has since grown into a goliath of a sub-genre. Decades of commanding armies, both large and small, in a struggle against impossible odds. Decades of virtual battlefields

The Tony Hawk series has returned to its former glory. Many people, like myself, have a lot of nostalgia for the Pro Skater games. The franchise fell out of the public consciousness after subsequent games added unneeded features that didn’t add to the core gameplay in any way. There’

From developer Headbang Club comes Double Kick Heroes, another rhythm-based game this year that’s quite different from your usual rhythm games. That is, it is a rhythm-based zombie shooter. Double Kick Heroes follows a literal band of rogues fresh off an apocalypse surviving only through the power of rock

Virtual Reality embraces two genres extraordinarily well — horror, and the service industry. We are never as deeply immersed as when we are scared or flipping burgers and cleaning. Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale jumps on the latter, letting players battle the likes of rye bread, mayo, and grilled pumpkin slices. It’

Remember when platformers dominated the industry, the same way FPS games and open-world titles have done? Skully, developed by Finish Line Games and published by Modus Games, has attempted to capture the essence of what made platformers so great for their time. Released on all major platforms, Skully boasts fun

Rock and Roll is dead in Vinyl City. No Straight Roads, the city’s premiere EDM group, rules with an iron fist; controlling everything from where emergency power goes to what types of music can be played. After a failed audition to join NSR, Mayday and Zuke of Bunkbed Junction

Do you ever tire of playing a game where no matter which character you choose, they’re all the same? With Root, this problem is thoroughly solved and it may be the game that you’d like to try. In the digital adaptation of the hit board game Root designed