Year: 2015
![Review: C.O.W.L. Volume 2: The Greater Good](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/COWL-Vol-2-400x2901.jpg)
Review: C.O.W.L. Volume 2: The Greater Good
The understated, dark, fantasy characters as normal folks thing has become a genre all on its own. … read more
![Review: G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SnakeEyes_AOC-TPBcover-400x2901.jpg)
Review: G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra
It’s been something like 13 years since I last consumed anything G.I. Joe–related. I missed the recent live-action films and, unfortunately, have not kept up with the comic book universe. … read more
![Review: Nom Nom Galaxy](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/015559-1024x576.jpg)
Review: Nom Nom Galaxy
In the early ’90s, when we are all sitting around playing our Super Nintendos, I remember talking with my friends about different ideas for games—believe it or not, we never landed on the idea of a game about intergalactic soup domination. … read more
![Review: Airscape: The Fall of Gravity](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Screenshot-28-1024x576.png)
Review: Airscape: The Fall of Gravity
Airscape: The Fall of Gravity is one of my new favorite platform/indie games. Every aspect of this game is so beautiful and well done that it’s impossible not to appreciate. … read more
![Review: Trials Fusion: Awesome Level Max](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image_trials_fusion_the_awesome_max_edition-28613-3279_0001-1024x599.jpg)
Review: Trials Fusion: Awesome Level Max
The biggest issue I have with Awesome Level Max is that, even though at first this looks like a brand new experience, after a few hours it just feels samey. … read more
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The Unique Culture of MX
There are numerous important things that a business must do to succeed. They must create a viable product. They must hire legitimate, quality employees. They must market and sell their business to the consumer. The most important thing a business can do, however, is install a unique and thriving culture, something that does not change
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Salt Lake Gaming Con – Day Two
By Robert Hudak On Friday, I arrived at the South Towne Expo Center just before noon to a pleasant surprise; better structure and a larger turnout lifted my spirits for Salt Lake Gaming Con’s three-day event. Where Thursday was the beta access, Friday felt like something closer to a full release. A few booths, Microsoft
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Review: Dream
Enter Dream, a first-person exploration adventure that plants its conceptual flag in the same field as the emotionally resonating Gone Home, the philosophical The Talos Principle, and the classic Myst. … read more
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Salt Lake Gaming Con: The PC vs. Console Panel –...
From the beginning, I struggled to see the point of this panel. I get that there are different camps of gamers and different platforms catering to those camps, but at the end of the day, we’re all gamers. I expected a degree of elitism to rear its ugly head during the “debate,” and in some ways,
![Salt Lake Gaming Con 2015: Wii U Super Smash Bros. Tournament](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SLGC201.jpg)
Salt Lake Gaming Con 2015: Wii U Super Smash Bros....
The faint smell of sweat lingered in the air as buttons clicked rapidly and anxious onlookers judged each of the players’ meticulously calculated moves. Six rows of four TV screens spread along the right side of the middle walkway in the main hall of the South Towne Expo Center—tournaments ranged from 2v2 Modern Warfare to