Year: 2015
Review: Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China
I’ve never understood why the emphasis in Assassin’s Creed games is less on historical assassinations and more on ridiculously trite “hunt and gather” missions, layered with the extremely superficial satisfaction of climbing and jumping off buildings into bushes. … read more
Review: Bloodborne
The spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls and the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne will spit in your face and dare you to do something about it. At this point, you’ve probably either enjoyed the From Software games or you think they’re too goddamn hard to bother with, but Bloodborne is the game that can bridge that gap. … read more
Review: BRAWL
BRAWL Bloober Team Reviewed on: PS4 (exclusive) Street: 04.24 When Bloober Team released their Bomberman-style party game, Basement Crawl, on PS4 in early 2014, it was met with outright hostility. A little more than a year later, the Polish game developers have released BRAWL, which is the same concept with more bells and whistles. While
Review: The Charnel House Trilogy
The Charnel House Trilogy Owl Cave Games/Mastertronic Reviewed on: PC Street: 04.16 The Charnel House Trilogy combines classic point-and-click to guide you through three 8-bit horror stories. Inhale, Sepulchre and Exhale are all independent, yet they depend on each other to succeed. Luckily, the beautiful execution of the three, when played in order, guides you
Review: Crypt of the NecroDancer
When Crypt of the NecroDancer was in early access, it was one of the most clever and addictive games that I had ever played. … read more
Review: The Evil Within: The Consequence
While The Assignment set a dark tone for Juli and added some creep-enhancing backstory to The Evil Within, its final DLC pack, The Consequence, really drives home just how screwed up the world is. … read more
Review: Fortress Fury
Fortress Fury is a strategy game from the mind of Jordan Maron—better known, apparently, as YouTuber CaptainSparklez. … read more
Review: Guns of Icarus Online
Guns of Icarus celebrated their two-year anniversary last October, and in light of that celebration, more and more gamers are going back to this sleeper hit and building a new community worldwide. … read more
Review: Last Word
At first blush, the quaint little Flash JRPG-like Last Word appeared to be a love letter to witty banter, an homage to the type of conversations Jane Austen characters engage in, and that got me pretty excited. … read more
Review: Massive Chalice
In Massive Chalice, you take the helm as an all-seeing ruler who commands every aspect of his or her kingdom in an effort to fight back an invading force of monsters called the Cadence. … read more