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What is the concept? In 2007, developer Steve Fawkner hoped to evade role-playing combat formula, which had habitually expressed combat as a succession of menu selections. The result was Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords- ...

Amidst the twilight of the past millennium, the three-dimensional, mascot-driven platformer was undoubtedly the genre du jour. It was an age when personalities such as Bubsy, Gex, Rayman, and Mario made the leap from sprites ...

What is the concept? Science fiction habitually explores technological determinism, or how a society’s advances shape the development of its social structure and cultural values. With the release of the eleventh (and purportedly last) expansion ...

Not long ago, blind-buying a manga or anime-based game was a dicey proposition. Although sporadic standouts such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Astro Boy: Omega Factor resisted mediocrity, the majority of ...

In contemporary gaming, the zombie apocalypse is about as ubiquitous as the common cold. As such, gamers could be forgiven for assuming the release of EKO Software’s How To Survive (or H2S) is just another ...

Cognition 4: The Cain Killer is the final installment of the Erica Reed Thriller series, produced by Phoenix Online Studios.  In Cain Killer the plot picks up where Episode 3 left off, delivering players into ...

Robert’s take: Save for Bohemia Interactive’s fastidiously detailed Arma series, the contemporary first-person shooter largely shuns simulation. While popular franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield provide painstakingly rendered weapons and drench their campaigns in ...

Shopping for a premium headset is a fairly clear-cut task, with many high-end devices providing a comparable quality-to-cost ratio. However, when it comes to more economical headphones, things can get trickier. Budget priced peripherals often ...

What is the concept? During the heyday of coin-ops, there was little need for narrative. Instead, arcade proprietors sought cabinets which would elicit adrenaline-emitting reactions, thereby earning a steady stream of revenue. The inclusion of ...

What is the concept? While EuroRPGs such as Venetica, Risen, Arcania: Gothic 4, and Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga might lack a bit of polish, few can criticize these games for a deficiency of ...