Game Reviews

Dillon’s Dead-Heat Breakers is a post-apocalyptic game that takes three genres (tower defense, action, and racing) and mashes them together for a fun and different experience. You play through the game switching between two characters who become friends after an encounter with the protagonists of the game, the Grocks:

In the age of near-realistic graphics, we’ve learned an important lesson: a game doesn’t need a beautiful artstyle to make a good game, it needs a fitting one. If your game is a heavy action game with themes of death and dread, a darker artstyle will fit. If

Violence, anxiety, uncertainty, and fear dominate our cultural landscape. Division spreads across the world as tyrants rise, a looming threat of Russian destruction and all out world war plague us all, and Farrah Fawcett reigns supreme as the IT-girl of the decade. It’s the 1970’s and everything is

Whether or not it’s apocryphal, we tend to accept as a piece of history that the original Legend of Zelda was inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto exploring the Japanese countryside as a boy. He extracted the feeling of adventure and inflated grandeur and built a game to mirror that. Reverie

When it comes to battle, one move can be the difference between life and death. One Strike takes this to heart and makes it the core concept behind its gameplay. One Strike takes place in feudal Japan and revolves around six fighters battling to survive. Every match starts with the

Look, if you told me that I had to write, “Shaquille O’Neal donned a cactus suit in order to defeat heavy metal rockers so he could destroy a Paris Hilton-esque demon” in a review last year, I probably would have laughed it off. Yet, here we are, and Shaq

Picture this: you gain control of your protagonist in an unknown world. Everything around you is teeming with life, and the map screen is a blank canvas just waiting to be filled in. There’s a cave directly in front of you, and inside you find a sword. Leaving the

Just Shapes and Beats has been on my radar since I first played it with some of my Gaming Trend colleagues at E3 years ago. Since then, I’ve been patiently waiting for Berzerk Studio to release a finished product. Just Shapes and Beats is a bullet hell game where