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…
Faeland Preview
Humanity has kept their peace with other warring regions by forging peace treaties and keeping the dark forces at bay. However, a new and mysterious force is threatening the safety of everyone and everything in the world. This is the…
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,…
My Memory of Us Preview
A year ago I wrote that My Memory of Us promised to tell us a beautiful, charmed, and dark story of friendship set in the midst of an allegory of the second World War. One year later that promise seems…