Reviews
Review: Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Suffering from a particularly bewildering case of sequelitis, Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor is more than bad—it’s downright disturbing. … read more
Review: Sorcery 3
Sorcery 3 prides itself on being the open-world equivalent of traditional, linear gamebooks, and it’s an absolute blast to play, especially if you’re carrying a character over from the previous titles to really ramp up the time-traveling challenge. … read more
Review: Turmoil
Turmoil is an economy-building/money-making game that was inspired by the 19th century oil rush in America. … read more
Review: Fighties
The amount of tweaking needed to balance a roster of unique characters is something that takes dedication, so I was surprised to find that dedication outside of Street Fighter or Super Smash Bros. in the form of Fighties—a small title developed by a team of two people—for $5.00 on Steam. … read more
Review: 3D Streets of Rage 2
3D Streets of Rage 2 Sega / M2 Reviewed on: 3DS (exclusive) Street: 07.23 Side-scrolling brawlers don’t really have a home on current-gen consoles, but with the wave of retro gaming, helped in part by Nintendo’s Virtual Console, they have a place carved out for them on handhelds. Streets of Rage 2 originally launched on
Review: Monopoly – Game of Thrones Edition
Are you a low-to-moderate Game of Thrones fan and an average fan of board games? Then you are gonna lose your shit over this new Monopoly Collector’s Edition. Any above-moderate Game of Thrones fans, on the other hand … perhaps not so much. … read more
Review: The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner (Blu-ray) Director: Russell Crowe Warner Bros. Street: 07.28 Gone are the days where I could watch the news and hear about how Russell Crowe pummeled a random person or threw a phone at the face of a hotel concierge. What we have now is a much more subdued Crowe—so subdued, in
Review: The Swindle
The Swindle is a cool little heist game with a nifty steampunk aesthetic. It’s set in 1849 London, where Scotland Yard is on the verge of implementing an end-all-be-all surveillance system—the Devil’s Basilisk. … read more
Review: Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
I’m completely new to the Deception video games series, and I wish I wasn’t. Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess is a smart, original and, above all else, fun game. Let’s go back though to where it all started with 1996’s Tecmo’s Deception. It debuted on the PlayStation 1 and, unlike later titles in the series, was a first-person game that made references to—GASP—Satanism! … read more
Review: No Time to Explain
Despite the game’s title, let me try to explain this to you. A puzzling, at times challenging platformer in which a giant, interdimensional, time-travelling monster has kidnapped your future self, and it’s up to present you (as well as multiple alternate-reality yous) to traverse through dimensions, armed with a propulsion gun, trying to save yourself and find out what the fuck is going on. … read more