I love games with unique concepts and/or execution. There are plenty of experimental and avant-garde video games to find on the internet (especially on sites like itch.io), but by their nature most […]
There are certain things I aspire to like–cultural experiences I feel robbed of based on my tastes. Sushi. Baseball. Any sort of video game requiring me to actually think and pay attention. […]
Things still aren’t fully ok in the world and with Chicago tightening their rules more and more with travel restrictions, a stay-at-home advisory, and rolling back to tier 3 mitigations; that means […]
I’ve been playing a lot of soulslike games lately. There has been, of course, my playthrough of Demon’s Souls, and recently Chronos: Before the Ashes (you can find that review here). But […]
Virtual theater has come in many forms during the last eight pandemic months. Our most recent theater review was actor/clown Bill Irwin’s new version of his bravura performance of On Beckett adapted […]
The Bridge Constructor series is known for its physics-based bridge building gameplay, but also for its concept mashing. Not merely satisfied with having vehicles travel over roadways, Bridge Constructor took on a […]
Here we are, in a time where VR is taking its first uncertain steps. We’re going to look back on these heady days of gallery shooters like we look back on mechanical […]
Towards the end of the plague year we learned that someone somehow transported a ten-foot high silvery metal object to a remote canyon in the Utah desert drilling through layers […]
Chronos: Before the Ashes, the prequel to Remnant: From the Ashes, from developer Gunfire Games is getting a new life outside of VR. Originally an Oculus store title under the name Chronos, […]
If Tim Burton designed a video game, I imagine it would be something like Death Tales. This 2D side-scrolling hack and slash/beat ‘em up game is colorfully grim, and nightmarishly whimsical. You […]
Roguelikes and rogue-lites seem to dominate my time as a reviewer. It’s to the point where nearly half the games that come to us are Rogue-something in some way or another. You […]
I’ve dabbled in the survival genre over the years, but I’m more fascinated with the crafting systems than actually surviving, which promptly leads to my death. Joining the Minecrafts and Don’t Starves […]
