Much like George A. Romero’s series of Living Dead films, George Miller’s Mad Max films have had an indelible impact on interactive entertainment. Both franchises have spurred entire subgenres of games- with the best efforts ...
Read More »New Game Releases: September 3rd-9th, 2015
From Mario Golf and Excitebike’s appearance on the Wii U to Leo’s Fortune and Tearaway Unfolded’s jump from portable to console, this week’s schedule of new game releases offers quite a few familiar faces. If ...
Read More »Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence review
History is filled with accounts of audacious ambition. From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, leaders have captured vast contiguous lands, earning an indelible space in print, cinema, and interactive entertainment. Although Oda Nobunaga’s Sengoku-era ...
Read More »Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls review
All too often gaming franchises can grow overly comfortable, churning out a procession of sequels that compliantly follow in the footsteps of their predecessor. Certainly, the Danganronpa series could have followed this prudent blueprint, with ...
Read More »Cherry MX 6.0 Mechanical Keyboard review
Occasionally, the peripheral we utilize the most is the one that gets tragically overlooked. Case in point: there’s plenty of PC users who spend lavish amount of money on graphic cards, CPUs, and monitors, but ...
Read More »DiscStorm Review
Videogames often allow us to mirror sporting events without conforming to real world limitations. We’ve seen this time again with classics ranging from Super Dodge Ball to NBA Jam and Super Mario Strikers. With all ...
Read More »Madden NFL 16 review
When John Madden Football was released for the Sega Genesis in 1990, few could have predicted it would become the prototypical sports game franchise. Purportedly, the Pro Hall of Famer and former Oakland Raider coach ...
Read More »New Game Releases: August 27th-September 2nd, 2015
From Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mad Max, to the third iteration in the Disney Infinity franchise, this week’s schedule of new game releases brings some heavy hitters. For otaku, there’s a few ...
Read More »Amnesia: Memories review
In Japan, the visual novel has a rich, thirty-year history, with the medium’s success stimulating an assortment of sub-genres. But beyond the possible exception of the 1994 Sega CD release of Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher, VNs ...
Read More »Evoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder review
Nostalgia is a tragically fragile sentiment. Relentlessly, publishers attempt to reinvigorate salient gaming memories, with a cavalcade of remakes, reboots, and remasters vying for our disposable income. For indie developers, there’s a similar effort to ...
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