You might be coming to C2E2 to get autographs from your favorite stars, or to check out some of the merchandise, panels, or to meet your favorite comic artists, but did you […]
C2E2 Means Games – A C2E2 Day 1 Game Retrospective
PREVIEW: Episode III, C2E2 2020: A Choose Your Own Adventure Guide to Sunday
Here we are, already facing the final curtain. We’ve had a lot of fun so far, haven’t we? As we promised, there’s been a little something for every kind of nerd, from […]
Review: Wizard World 2019 Featured Fantastic Moments with a Few Disappointments
We’re just coming off an incredibly jam-packed August here at Third Coast Review–full of music festivals, summer vacations abroad, indie games events, and more recently, the behemoth of pop culture that is […]
VGA Limned the Video Star—Interview with Tiffany Funk of the Video Game Art Reader
What’s the status of art in state of the art video games? Do pixelated citizens have a sense of aesthetics? Will we find a Van Gogh or Basquiat skin among the boogying […]
Preview: Friday’s Logan Playtest Party 2018 Offers a Great Way to Get Into Chicago’s Games Scene
We in the Games & Tech section are advocates for games–whether that’s encouraging writers and readers to see games as art, explore across game genres or become part of a new […]
Review: Hitman 2 Lets Anyone Become a Super Assassin Without Making It Easy
Hitman 2 is a stealth video game developed by IO Interactive. A sequel to 2016’s Hitman, Hitman 2 follows Agent 47 as he assassinates targets, including one referred to as the “Shadow Client” given […]
Fortnite, Overwatch, Pro Gamers, Open Play and More at Wizard World Chicago 2018
Summer might be starting to wrap up, but Wizard World Chicago is just getting started. We were out on the floor for the first day of the convention, and we scoped out […]
There Was Great Local Talent at Logan Theatre’s Playtest Party 2017
Last Friday the usually spacious Logan Theatre Lounge was packed with local game designers and developers eager to show off their prototypes. Hosted by the Logan Theatre and the Nerdologues the fourth […]
Preview: Wizard World Chicago 2017 Lands Thursday
It’s that time again! Wizard World Chicago is just around the corner, with its first of four days of comics, games, cosplay and celebrities beginning Thursday in Rosemont. You may or may […]
Game Review: West of Loathing – Bringing Adventure to Y’All
Minor game spoilers follow: West of Loathing is the follow-up to a free-to-play turn based RPG called Kingdom of Loathing. Though maybe not on everyone’s gaming radar, Kingdom of Loathing had and has a very […]
Game Review: Tacoma is Competent Short-Form Sci-Fi
Minor story spoilers follow: Tacoma is almost in lockstep with developer Fullbright’s previous indie darling, 2013’s Gone Home. Instead of exploring an empty house and interacting with its various contents to reveal […]
Game Review: Pyre is a Whole New Ballgame
Minor story and gameplay spoilers follow: Supergiant Games is best known for 2011’s Bastion and 2014’s Transistor. Both featured breathtaking art, an amazing soundtrack, and an engaging but poignant story. Both were […]
