Game Reviews

Player’s Log: Turn 242 I wanted to like the North Sea Alliance when their craft first touched down on our new world. The populations of the other sponsored spacecraft which had followed close behind my own had been friendly and accommodating, although perhaps a bit reticent. They had assisted

While the politics surrounding criminal punishment and the prison system remain controversial and deeply dividing, the one thing that we can all agree on is that prisons are a necessity. No one wants to live surrounded by murderers, thieves, and frauds, and so when we identify those foul characters in

Let’s get this straight at the top:  This is a chess game.  Not entirely unlike Chessmaster 5000 or any other chess program you might peruse, this is primarily a chess game.  It’s not Dawn of War 3 (just when do we get that game anyway?), or the recent

It’s hard to believe that just over a decade ago, Tony Hawk was one of the biggest names in video games. The professional skateboarder had created a hit in the late ‘90s with his arcade-style extreme sports title, and each subsequent release for the next few years continued to

Like many others in my generation, clowns have always kind-of given me the creeps. What else could be hiding behind that garish clothing and makeup besides horrible secrets? However, even in spite of his ghastly appearance and troubled past, I’ll be damned if Dropsy isn’t the most lovable

“Spiritual successor” is a fickle term. It denotes that a work is not part of an established canon, but cannot exist without that established effort preceding it. Undertale is a spiritual successor of many games – Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, even drawing inspiration from more modern indies like Cave Story. Yet Undertale

Have you ever really wanted to like a game, but there was that nagging something holding you back from fully endorsing it? Conceptually it’s amazing, but it has that one fatal flaw that brings it down? That’s the way I feel about Jotun. Jotun is a top-down action-exploration

When I booted up Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and heard the series’ prolific main theme, I was overcome with a nostalgia for Naughty Dog’s generation-defining trilogy. As the studio seems intent on ending Nathan Drake’s story with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, it feels right going