SCUM is a Survival Shooter For the Dungeons and Dragons Crowd

It would be very easy to look at Gamepires SCUM, a prison riot survival shooter, and brush it off as just another fledgling entry in the “games that are basically DayZ” subgenre. The once-king of PC shooters’ influences on the…

The Messenger Preview: Blown Away Gaiden

Walking away from The Messenger, I am left genuinely and thoroughly shaken. Not in an uncomfortable way, in a way that leaves me chomping at the bit to spend more time with this game. No demo before has left me…

Ion Maiden PAX East 2018 Video Preview

CORRECTION: Ion Maiden is being developed by Voidpoint in Partnership with 3D Realms Our Video Producer Mike Burgess got hands on time with Ion Maiden at PAX East 2018 Footage Captured, Edited and Narrated by Mike Burgess Follow Mike @…

Outrun Evil with Big Guns and Blast Beats in Double Kick Heroes

Metal music is known for painting an alternative/futuristic/ancient world as a blasted, brutal environment of warriors and glorious fatalism. Fiction inspired by it shares these characterizing codes. Double Kick Heroes might crystallize all that is metal better than most games…

Rend Preview: Team-Based Survival

Rend is maybe one of the most ambitious games I got to sit down and see at PAX East. It’s also one of few games I didn’t have a hands on demo with, but I got to sit with David…

Tunic Preview: A Colorful, Mysterious Adventure

Published by Finji and developed by Diecy, Tunic is a bright action-adventure game with Zelda-like motifs that I was really excited to finally get hands on time with at Pax East 2018. Visually, Tunic has a glow to it. Its colors…

The Inner Friend Preview: Journeying through a child’s nightmare.

Playmind’s The Inner Friend is a game that will not make you feel good. Indeed, it is a game that will leave a strange feeling upon finishing the demo Playmind has available at Pax. The Inner Friend is an experience…

The Gardens Between: Preview

Reminiscing about past memories can be a strange feeling, certain things can stand out and scare you. Or they can bring up happy memories, but some of those instances can be surreal to imagine.  Being in control of these memories…

Guacamelee 2 Preview

Guacamelee was mine, and I think many folks’ introduction to Drinkbox and their incredible style, and after finishing up Severed, they’ve returned to the franchise with Guacamelee 2. I got to sit down with one of the developers and play…

Below Preview: Surviving All These Years

The last time I played Below was almost four years ago. PAX East 2014 was the first time it was playable, and as Capybara Games has always made odd, specific games that appeal to me almost on a frighteningly direct…

City of Brass Preview

Hearing tales of a lost, cursed city made you curious as a child, leaving you wanting to explore it in person. City of Brass is a game in which you are tasked with this, finding your way around a city…

Overland Preview: Exciting Survival

The realm of turn based strategy and survival games are completely foreign to me. From afar, they’ve always looked too complex and intimidating. There have been times when the look or swagger of a game in the category grabbed me,…