The finale of the Witcher trilogy has come and gone. The culmination of years of novels and games, weaving character and plot threads like a spiderweb, yet all approaching their climax in a single moment. To say that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a gargantuan undertaking might be an
I’m going to be brutally honest, I thought this game was absolute garbage when I first picked it up. The graphics looked dated, the gameplay made no sense at all, and the learning curve was so high that I was constantly dying and restarting before making any real progress.
It’s been a long time since I’ve really enjoyed an ARPG. The loot grind lost its appeal after many long nights of Diablo II, and eventually I moved on. I seem to always find myself returning to the genre however, and games like Van Helsing III make sure
There’s a sweet science to competitive fighting games. Not unlike real-life boxing, there’s a lot of careful thought and tactics underneath the uppercuts and jabs. The cream of the crop master this and make even the lowliest of hopeful combatants, like myself, feel they can keep improving and
Chroma Squad evokes a lot of the same responses that many children of the 90s have to Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. The clear inspiration for the game, Power Rangers was a Saturday morning cheese-fest that didn’t create overly complex plot lines or inspire discussion over controversial topics. There was
If you put a modern platformer in a box, and you couldn’t see the mechanics and gameplay of that platformer, would the genre be dead or alive? Though the question of Schrödinger’s Side-Scroller remains unanswered, the purple kitty who draws his namesake from Schrödinger’s other, more famous
This past Tuesday the much anticipated second expansion to Activision’s Destiny finally launched, bringing with it a large assortment of additions and changes to the original title and even its DLC predecessor, the Dark Below. This includes dozens (potentially countless)new items, crafting systems, a new social/bartering space,
I don’t play a lot of what might be categorized as casual games. I found Candy Crush to be fairly pay-to-win, so that didn’t stay installed long. Don’t get me wrong — I love gem-matching games, but other than efforts from Popcap, I always feel like they are
