There’s something terribly wrong with Neon Krieger Yamato. It isn’t its low-fi, over saturated colors, its furious combo based brawling, or its demanding trap-heavy level design. It’s that I will most likely have to wait a year to spend countless…
Preview: Flamberge: A Tactical RPG Where Context is Key
Hydezeke’s booth at the MAGfest Indie Showcase this past weekend was the talk of the festival amongst con-goers and developers alike. After sitting and playing the three-stage demo, it was clear to see why. Their upcoming strategy RPG, Flamberge, is…
5 Hilariously Blatant Mobile Ripoffs
There’s nothing incredibly new about many of gaming’s biggest ideas. We live in a time where iteration is more popular (and profitable) than innovation. In some ways, iteration becomes innovation. The gradual process of making little things like running, jumping,…
Game of Thrones Episode 1: Iron from Ice Review
Westeros is a dangerous, unforgiving place full of cutthroats who both lurk in the shadows and sit amongst thrones. It’s a place where every new day you spend alive is one more day you can count yourself amongst the lucky,…
Vainglory Review
MOBAs, or Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, are the new plateau of the the PC evangelists. Like the Action RPGs of old, anyone who is a primarily PC player probably also is a moderate League of Legends or DOTA participant. The…
Warhammer 40000 Review
Science fiction has a great reputation for setting the bar high when it comes to progress in social, technological, and military spheres (among many others). Unlike other fiction genres, Sci-fi isn’t held so strictly to conventional logic and reason. I…
Let’s Rank the Warhammer 40000 Games!
Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 (or just 40K) is one of the most sprawling and detailed science fiction universes ever created. In the 41st Millenium, Earth is memory, and giant mutant superhumans preserve the legacy of Humankind throughout a hostile galaxy…
4 Ways Shadow of Mordor is Better Than The Games it Imitates.
At first glance, you may look at Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and write it off as a half-cooked licensed product in a franchise somewhat known for throwing their name on anything, regardless of quality. I urge you to shake…
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Review
When I was in 12th grade I spent the majority of a partly cloudy Saturday in a classmate’s basement reading through Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not out of personal curiosity, mind you, but as a…
Velocity 2X Review
The arcade space shoot em up is, quite literally, one of the oldest genres in gaming. From Spacewar! back in the 70’s, “shmups” have taken the last 50 years to iterate and refine the art of flying in one direction…
Ramblet Episode 6
This Ramblet features Chris Wagar of Gather Your Party and his article “Tripping on Air: Why Game Journalists Can’t Describe Games”. Spawned by an article written dissing Super Smash Bros. fans, Chris waxes poetic about a general inability to accurately…