Ghost Fish Games’ Tabletop Gods fashions you as a god, facing off against another god. You are both waging a proxy war from the heavens, with demons, humans and the undead as your […]
Review: Tabletop Gods is a Colorful War of Gods
Review: Rage 2 is an Incredible Shooter Buried in a Massive and Boring Open World
The hype was real. I mean, really real. Rage wasn’t the best game, but I was one of the few people that actually liked its Borderlands meets Fallout aesthetic and super-fast, […]
Review: A Plague Tale: Innocence is Beautiful, Horrifying, Poignant
Minor spoilers follow: You can tell when a game is made with passion, and A Plague Tale: Innocence just oozes that feeling. Developer Asobo Studio, developer of 2016’s ReCore, has crafted a […]
Review: Days Gone is a Long, Slow Burn That is Surprisingly Good
Very minor story spoilers follow: When I first saw the announcement for Days Gone at last year’s E3, I immediately thought, “why do we need this game?” I mean, it’s an […]
Preview: Halo and Portal Meet in Splitgate: Arena Warfare
If there’s one thing I prefer not to do, it’s defining a game as “X game meets Y game” because it implies a game isn’t original. Saying that Rage 2 is Mad […]
Review: Sniper Elite V2‘s Upgraded Visuals Don’t Hide Clunky Controls
Sniper Elite V2 was originally released in 2012 to decent critical reception. Rebellion’s sequel to their 2005 Sniper Elite puts you in the shoes of a badass American sniper who is tasked […]
Preview: VGA Gallery Brings Hong Kong Artists to Chicago for PLAY.GROUND II: Video Game Art from Hong Kong
In the US, we can be myopic about our place in the world sometimes. Much of the media we consume can seem to revolve around us and what’s happening here, or could […]
Wear It’s At: Tech and Textiles Meet at MSI Chicago’s Wired to Wear Exhibit
Technology moves along at impressive speeds. Not so long ago, the concept of a portable computer was a far-off notion. Enter the smartphone, which took over as phone, music player, camera, navigator […]
Review:John Carter of Mars Delivers on its High Adventure Promise with this Great Roleplaying Game
I only heard of John Carter and his adventures on Barsoom during the promotional campaign for the 2012 movie. It was a shock to me to discover that there was this entire […]
Review:World War Z Has Impressive Number of Zombies, Little Else
Left 4 Dead has always been, to me, one of the golden standards for co-op shooters. It has a great formula, which has been copied successfully over the years with games […]
Game Over! Day 3 of Games at C2E2: DePaul E-Sports, and Nolan North Finish Off This Year’s Con
That’s it. C2E2’s over. It’s cos-played out, but if you missed it—or any day—we have a recap of what we saw while were there. And this year was so jammed with activities, […]
Games at C2E2 Day 2: Pac-Man vs. The Chicago River, How to (Not) Suck at Tabletop Storytelling, and More
Saturday at C2E2 was absolutely bonkers. It was packed to the brim on the show floor, and every panel seemed to fill up. Games continue to be an important part of this […]
