Amidst the sterile cubicles of the 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo, I had formed a transitory bond with two programmers from (the now defunct) GRIN. After spending the bulk of the appointment mutually gushing over the ...
Read More »(Almost) Good Lord- Lord of Arcana Review
As both an obsessed island nation and my colleague SeanNOLA will attest, Monster Hunter can be an overwhelmingly absorbing game. While millions of Japanese gamers have become obsessed with the perpetual cycle of killing, scavenging ...
Read More »New Releases 1/30-2/5: Knocking Boots Edition
Whether players prefer to step into the well crafted boots of an Elven archer, chest high waders of a professional bass angler, or trusty cow-kickers of a country-western singer, there’s a form-fitting title awaiting players ...
Read More »Podcast 6-1: Remorseful Bad Dudes
This week, reformed rabble-rousers DesertEagle and SeanNOLA offer impressions of Two Worlds II, Dead Space 2, and Fluidity. Additionally, the duo discusses Front Mission Evolved‘s abrupt jumps from enjoyable action game to single-hit stress inducer. ...
Read More »Maul at the Sprawl- Dead Space 2 Review
For years, survival horror games have been a consistently problematic genre. Although titles in the Resident Evil, Silent Hill and even Alone in the Dark franchises have provided players with an unshakable sense of uneasiness, ...
Read More »Role-Playing Reparation- Two Worlds II Review
Redemption is a ubiquitous theme in role-playing games; countless titles have chronicled the journey of a misguided young adventurer who transforms mind and body in an effort to vanquish adversity. With the release of their ...
Read More »Podcast 5-9: Operation Negatron Rising
Hoping to rediscover recover the valor exhibited by the initial entries in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon series, DesertEagle examines two divergent titles- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and the latest Wii iteration of Ghost Recon. Together ...
Read More »New Releases 1/23-1/29: Adversity on Wheels Edition
Whether players are battling hordes of hostile orcs in Two Worlds II, necromorphs in Dead Space 2 or the countless baddies in Lord of Arcana, this week’s new releases offers an array of atrocious antagonists. ...
Read More »Tooth, Nail, and Tail- Eat Them! Review
The remedy for my minimum wage/teenage-rage malaise was found in an unlikely source: the 1986 Bally-Midway arcade game, Rampage. Long before Fight Club explored the roots of discontent within the young male psyche, the game ...
Read More »An Athlete in Overalls- Mario Sports Mix Preview
Fervent Nintendo fans might be able to cite the company’s infrequent development collaborations with Square-Enix. Over the last fifteen years, the duo has worked together to create two titles: 1996’s Super Mario RPG: Legend of ...
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