Game Reviews

Over the last couple of decades, the Pokémon franchise has become one that we all know and love, spawning some of my personal favorite turn-based RPGs of all time and some much beloved characters for...

Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure brings a fun and quirky dodgeball game for both friends and family, but as a single player game, it's mostly a drag due to long and arduous matches against the computer....

Get on top, one of the greatest two player experiences of my entire life. Fast gameplay and colorful graphics that mesmerizes the mind and forces you to play more. Get on top is all ready...

Layers are what make a good game, exceptional. Layers of plot, layers of combat, and layers of extras combine to create greatness, and so it is with Stories: The Path of Destinies. Perfectly described as...

I spent the majority of my time in Nights of Azure reading text. Normally, that would be a problem with an action RPG like Nights of Azure. There are combo systems and a unique combat hook that would...

My childhood was filled with TRON; I was fortunate to be alive when the original hit the theatres and remember watching it, playing the game in the arcades and even owning the action figures. My fandom once had...

Alekhine’s Gun is a game that I very much wanted to enjoy. That is probably what accounts for my level of disappointment while playing through its various, and admittedly varied, levels. I love the stealth,...

Papa's ... a long running popular flash based game series, with over 10 million hits across multiple websites and 14 iterations, mobile ports and fans around the world. From Pizza to donuts, hot dogs to...

I try, I really do try, to go into games with neutral expectations. In the weeks leading up to the release, just everything about the idea of Episode 5 rubbed me up the wrong way:...

Let me just start by saying that I love point-and-click adventure games - when they're done right. I can deal with the rough ones, and I'll still play them, but if there was one genre...

I love the original Parasite Eve games on the PlayStation; the world, the story and the graphics drew me in. When I heard that the The 3rd Birthday was coming to the PSP, I was...

Prison escapes get rarer every year as security and technology constantly keep improving. These days, any super-max penitentiary is practically impossible to break out of by any typical human being. Luckily for you, in Prison...

A few months ago, I went down memory lane and decided to play one of my favorite button mashers, Final Fight on my Super Nintendo. That nostalgia prompted me to go out and look for...

Allow me to share with you an excerpt from the Catlateral Damage press release, so you TRULY understand what we're dealing with here: Prrrrrrrrrrress Release Mew meow CATLATERAL DAMAGE meow meow-ow Playstation 4 mrooooow meow...

Recently I had a discussion with another writer about what it means to say “inspired by”. While I often use it to mean “if people like X, they'll like Y”, the person who I was...

Baseball Riot is a physics-based puzzle game from 10tons. It is the sequel to 2014’s Tennis in the Face, in which players strike enemies unconscious with deadly tennis serves. Baseball Riot follows the same premise,...

I was lucky enough to be one of the few people to have grabbed Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the GameCube. I remember when Wal-Mart emailed me and told me that they had oversold...

We have all been told some kind of folktale at some point in our lives, usually childhood. These fantasy stories contain unique characters and usually aim to teach some sort of moral, or lesson. Many...

There's a mobile game called A Dark Room which holds a very special place in my heart and mind. This game, brought to us by Doublespeak Games, is a text-based resource management RPG, though that title...

There's Poop In My Soup is an interesting game to say the least. It's a strange game that offers humor and entertainment in a unique premise, and in unexpected ways. This is an arcade style...

I can fondly remember playing Shadow Complex back in 2009 and how much of an impact it made on me. It was one of the games that pushed me into learning how to make them....

The story of a purple tentacle that is let loose and begins its tyranny over the human race is probably one of the most iconic adventure game stories ever. Where Maniac Mansion established Ron Gilbert and Gary...

Do you remember that game Watch Dogs which everyone hyped up back in 2012? Do you remember when our hearts were broken when we realized it was a shallow, action heavy title that lacked any...

For the sake of candor, I’ll admit that at first, I didn’t have high hopes for Upwards, Lonely Robot. The trailer was mildly interesting at best, and I thought I was in for slow, uninteresting,...

Hitman, the new reboot by Io-Interactive, is unquestionably a success. The first episode is a visual feast, the gameplay is extremely enjoyable and satisfying, and the project offers a variety of depth that adds hours...

It really isn't every day that a game just blows you away because of how well made it is. What I mean to say is that within the first thirty seconds of playing this game,...