Video Game Reviews, Articles
Do you ever feel like games development companies are trying to brainwash the public with their games? Constant wearing us down to spending all of our hard earned cash in their games? Have you ever wanted to infiltrate them, murder…
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Randomly generated? Tick. “Deep” stat driven loot system? Tick. Indie? Of course that’s a tick. That’s pretty much the big three ticked off for any rogue-lite game these days. Every indie seems to start off by creating a rogue-lite game,…
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Live-action cutscenes in video games are rare, but titles that are almost entirely made up of FMVs are even harder to come by these days. In the past, it was a gimmick that companies like SEGA tried to use to…
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Visual novels in high school settings may be as common as clouds in the sky, but chatting chatting up two-dimensional chicks and having to make ever-so-difficult decisions about who to devote your attention to does have its appeals. Some of…
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When Shenmue III came across my desk, I offered it around to my other editors. It’s a game that, while I have heard good things, I’ve never actually played. This being the case, I felt it my duty to offer…
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In ‘No Pay 2 Play’, we review free video games (whether they’re riddled with microtransactions and season passes or not) and then answer the golden question: is it worth adding to your game library? Boring Stuff Developed by HAL Entertainment…
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I’m not a religious man, so when I was asked to review the Secrets of Jesus by the developer, I was a little hesitant. However, it is my favourite genre – a point and click adventure – and it does…
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Throwback first-person shooters have been all the rage for a while now, with more and more brilliant titles being pumped out by talented teams aplenty. This, however, is the first title we’ve seen built in id Software’s Quake engine in…
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Oh, tie-in games, will you ever stop being so mediocre? That’s not to say any game based on some sort of pop culture series or icon is destined to be bad, but it’s hardly surprising to see that an action…
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It may not look like much, but the Joy-Con controllers for the Nintendo Switch that’s proven itself to be suitable for all sorts of games on the market. Now ‘suitable’ doesn’t necessarily translate to ‘comfortable’, as there are fans out…
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One badass vs. a million demons from Hell – no mercy. Sound familiar? Well, don’t jump the gun juuuust yet. This is Hellbound, a legitimate DOOM-inspired first-person shooter which was successfully funded via Kickstarter some time ago. Initially, the developers…
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Almost four years ago, I wrote a review on Mad Games Tycoon, during my phase of playing every game development game out there. I recall being impressed with it, but as it was early access back then, I did note…
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Gimmicks are no substitute for substance of any kind, and that couldn’t be truer in the world of video games. Titles that are entirely dependent on a fanciful feature are like one-wheeled bicycle. In other words, they’re more than likely…
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“Zelda is a good game” may well be the most overused opening argument in game journalism since the dawn of time. Sparklite apes Zelda’s style but with a twist: it’s procedurally generated. On first impressions, I wasn’t too turned off…
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Cowboys shooting bandits, smugglers and aggressive natives are par-for-the-course for games set in the Wild West. Truth be told, though, there really aren’t that many titles that mix in some horror themes and tropes alongside. Well, Polish developers Draw Distance…
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