Nidhogg Review

Me and my opponent stand a pair of fencing sabers length away, give or take the intermittent shuffles towards and away from one another. At almost 15 minutes, neither of us can seem to claim an advantage of the other…

Samurai Gunn Review

The best martial arts movies know how to wrap drama around a simple act of violence. A teahouse shootout thanks to a character’s inborn recklessness, for example. Samurai Gunn is the simple acts of violence, and you and three of…

Darkout Review

Darkout is a 2D side-scrolling survival game with procedurally generated worlds much akin to Terraria and Starbound. Darkout begins with the player crash landing on a mysterious and hostile planet,  you are left to salvage what you can from your…

How to Survive Review

Survival horror is one of those genres that has lost itself over time. Where’s the tension? Where’s the desperation? Most of the genres flagships have embraced third person shooting  and explosions as the new things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. Allow 505’s How to Survive…

The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 Review

Bigby Wolf is tired of everyone just treating him like the beast he once was. Sure, he followed Little Red Riding Hood to her grandmother’s cottage and he blew down a couple of pigs’ houses, but he has put his…

Gone Home Review

Gone Home… How do I describe you? Gone Home isn’t a game. Period. What might amount to one – three hours of an interactive narrative is more of an interesting experience, one I think is worth having. Gone Home takes…

The Oculus Rift: The Future Of Gaming?

Technology is advancing at an extremely rapid pace, so rapidly in fact that even trying to keep up with the ongoing growth of the technology industry can prove to be both a tiring and arduous task. Within the past ten…

Bethesda’s Big Fault

Is Bethesda jumping into subscription-based games really a good idea?

Proteus: A Beautiful, Poignant Experience

Niall peaks into what Proteus is, and what the experience meant to him.

Ittle Dew Review

Ittle Dew is a weird little thing. From a group called Ludocity, it’s just a quirky Zelda-like that tries and captures what made the 2D Zeldas so special. There are a lot of Zelda-likes out there, but I think Ittle…

The Walking Dead: 400 Days Review

Season One of Telltale’s The Walking Dead was an interesting case. Just when everyone was about to give up on episodic-based games, and adventure games in general, Telltale came at us with something that literally blew everyone out of the…

Monaco Review

Monaco has really been around forever. It’s been making the PAX rounds ever since it won the IGF back in 2010, but now it is out, and is very real. It’s a game about heists, it’s a game about humor…