I’m going to admit something to you: I was pretty hyped about developer Iron Galaxy’s apocalyptic monster slayer Extinction. It looked to me like an Attack on Titan anime meets Dungeon Defenders […]
Review: Extinction Does Not Live up to its Premise
Preview: Heavy Metal Rhythm Game Double Kick Heroes Enters Early Access Tomorrow
Double Kick Heroes is a heavy-metal rhythm shoot ‘em up set across a post-apocalyptic USA. It emerged from Ludum Dare 34 back in 2015 when the developers which would later make up […]
Review: Jalopy–Mileage May Vary
Take away the spaceships, magic swords, and all portents of destiny, and the most epic of adventures boil down to getting from point A to point B. This hero’s journey has been […]
Review: Roguelike Shooter Synthetik Delivers Robot Carnage
Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called Robotron, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. I bring […]
Review: Surviving Mars is a Near-Future Vision of Space Age Colonization
Developer Haemimont is best known for the last few Tropico games—a series of city building and construction management games where you would take the role of a dictator overseeing a small island […]
Review: Earthworms is a Surreal Adventure Game That Borders on Absurd
Earthworms by developer All Those Moments is a surreal and often absurd point and click adventure game. Longtime fans of the genre will likely find the gameplay familiar, with a few bits of […]
Review: Q.U.B.E. 2 Punctuates Physics Based Puzzles with Sci-Fi Thrills
Q.U.B.E. 2 is Toxic Games follow up to 2011’s Q.U.B.E., a physics-based puzzle game by that’s long drawn comparisons to a less punctuated but more popular title, Valve’s Orange Box hit, Portal. In Q.U.B.E. 2, , there’s […]
Review: PlayLink Pity as Frantics Falls Flat
Developer NapNok games has attempted to take the Mario Party formula onto PlayStation 4 with Frantics, a party game with a slant towards the devious. One to four players compete in a […]
Review: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is Bloody, Spectacular, and Rewarding
Let’s face it: the Warhammer IP is hit and miss. There are good Warhammer games, and incredibly bad ones. Luckily, developer Fatshark has managed another good entry into the vast Warhammer canon. […]
Review: Pit People is a Funny and Absurd Adventure
Developer The Behemoth reached legendary status back during Xbox Live Arcade’s heyday with the release of Castle Crashers back in 2008. They have slowly but steadily been releasing games ever since, with […]
Review: H1Z1–Drop In, Arm Up, Go Nuts
H1Z1, developed and published by the Daybreak Game Company, is a free-to-play battle-royale title with an emphasis on mixing it up with 99 other players on an lonely island full of firearms. […]
Review: Rad Rodgers is a Retro-Styled Platformer Stuck in its Teens
Rad Rodgers started its life as a Kickstarter game, hoping to fulfill a nostalgic itch while simultaneously eschewing kid friendliness with promises of gore, foul language, and adult themes. Rad Rodger manages […]