Assassin’s Creed is a venerable series, with 11 main entries and 20 entries overall (if you count the Chronicles spinoffs and a couple of handheld versions). As with any series that has 11 (or more) […]
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 54th Chicago International Film Festival is now underway at the AMC River East 21 (where every festival screening will, once again, be this year). As […]
Sometimes you’re not sure what kind of game you want to play. Maybe you want X-COM-style, isometric turn-based combat, but maybe you also want a management game. Maybe you just want to […]
For some of us, a new entry in the Tomb Raider series is always reason to celebrate. It’s a bit like going home, if you’re someone, like me, who started her adventures […]
This past weekend, while Riot Fest was amping up for its first day in Douglas Park, a different kind of alternative experience was happening in River West, with BitBash’s Fabricade. In lieu of its annual titular […]
Immortal: Unchained is an action role-playing game developed and published by Toadman Interactive. Set in the far future on an alien world, you play as a warrior who has been imprisoned for an unknown […]
Megaquarium is an aquarium management game, much in the same vein as the Theme or Tycoon games of old. Instead of working on creating that perfect sprawling theme park, hospital, or whatever to […]
Bit Bash was founded back in 2014 with the goal of “furthering the culture of independent game development in Chicago by hosting larger, public faced events.” For years, the biggest example of this […]
I Play Games (IPG) is an organization we’ve become familiar with at video game events around the city, from Bitbash to C2E2 and even out in Milwaukee for the Midwest Gaming Classic. They […]
One of my favorite games of all time is Castle Crashers. The satisfaction of beating the snot out of goons with over-the-top weapons and magic, and then using the experience and gold earned […]
There was a time I considered myself a hobby fisherman. I wasn’t crazy about it, but it was something I liked to do throughout my 20s. Eventually life caught up to me […]
Minor gameplay spoilers ahead: Shadows of Bogenhafen DLC is the first expansion of the well-reviewed Vermintide 2 (you can check out our review of the base game here). In short, we liked […]
