One of the genres of video games I like best are racing games. I have loved them ever since the first ones I got my hands on for NES and beyond. While […]
Review: Overpass is a Hard Pass
Review: Deep Sky Derelicts Definitive Edition Brings Gritty Sci-Fi Deck Building to Consoles
I’ve had a lot of roguelikes coming my way lately. Well, it’s been more like non-stop roguelikes and rogue-lites for the past few years—and that’s a good thing. Deep Sky Derelicts is […]
Preview: Comanche has Great Helicopter Action, but Don’t Expect a Sim
Comanche is a game series I haven’t thought of in over a decade. So, you can imagine my surprise when THQ released into Early Access a futuristic helicopter game bearing that name. […]
Preview: Dreadlands is Post Apocalyptic Turn-Based Strategy
I’m a sucker for a good strategy game, and my years of early turn-based CRPGs like Fallout and Fallout 2 cemented my desire for turn-based combat in a post-apocalyptic setting. When I […]
What You Need to Know Before You Drop Into Call of Duty: Warzone
Call of Duty: Warzone is Infinity Ward’s take on the ever-popular battle royale genre. It’s free on all platforms, and for you PlayStation 4 users out there, it doesn’t even require you […]
Review: Roundguard Is a Delightful Mix of Peggle and Slay the Spire
Let me get this out of the way: Roundguard is absolutely delightful. It combines two of my favorite games: the pachinko-like Peggle, and the deckbuilding roguelike Slay the Spire. It’s a twist […]
Review: Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition Brings New Levels and Quality of Life Changes to the Gravity Defying Metroidvania
I first heard of Dandara when a writer pitched the review to me in 2018.When he submitted it, all I knew going in was that it was a metroidvania. After reading his […]
Review: Hidden Through Time is Silly and Charming
There’s a genre of video games that it seems like most people usually ignore: the hidden object game. I mean, they’re everywhere. I’ve seen the one based on the Castle TV show […]
Review: Once a Fan Recreation, Black Mesa Manages to Transcend its Source
I remember when Half-Life came out. I convinced my mom to buy it for me “for Christmas” around its release in November. I couldn’t possibly wait a whole month to play it, […]
Review: Help! The Help Has Disappeared in Congo Square’s “Satirical Fantasy,” Day of Absence
The playwright conceived it as a reverse minstrel show, with black actors playing in whiteface. But Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence is a lot more. As staged by Congo Square Theater, […]
Game Over–C2E2 Day 3 Game Retrospective
It’s all over folks, C2E2 2020 is done and gone, leaving us only with fond memories. It feels like C2E2 gets bigger every year–their game presence certainly has. There was a whole […]
Critical Role, the Future of Games and more–C2E2 Day 2 Game Retrospective
Update: A previous version of this article mistakenly listed Shail Mehta’s project incorrectly. It has been changed to Gameboard-1–and you can find information on their Kickstarter page and website. Day two of […]
