In a Kickstarter campaign update posted early last month on September 7; the Belarus-based indie studio Weappy, developers of the upcoming police-themed strategy/adventure game This Is The Police, confirmed that they lost their publishing partner. The game’s developers were originally working with the British developer/publisher…
Taylor Woolstenhulme
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Raised on a steady supply of superhero cartoons, videogames, and heavy metal Taylor Woolstenhulme was destined to have a lifelong love affair with everything geek. Fascinated by the possibilities of emergent gameplay; Taylor's favorite genres include the non-explosive kind of RPG, grand strategy, and open world sandboxes. He lives in sunny California, and hopes to pursue writing as a full-time career.
In a Kickstarter update posted on Wednesday, Dex developers announced a partnership with publisher Badland Indie to bring the cyberpunk RPG to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, and PS Vita platforms sometime next year. Following up on that major announcement was a smaller, though…
I’ve always held a morbid fascination with riots. My interest is immediately peaked the second I hear about adrenaline-fueled clashes between large mobs of haggard protestors fighting for what they believe in (and the occasional opportunist who’s fighting for their right to snag a new TV)…
Chris Parsons’ character-focused space game Sol Trader (described as being a fusion of Elite, Asteroids, and Dwarf Fortress) has blasted back to Kickstarter with a goal of $15,531, following an unsuccessful campaign earlier on in the year. Every time a new Sol Trader playthrough begins,…
In a Kickstarter backer update posted on Wednesday (September 16th), William Dubé and the other developers behind the upcoming Norse-themed action game Jotun confirmed its release date; and it’s coming out sooner than you’d think: September 29th. That’s right, in just two weeks players will be…
Orphic Software has announced that their upcoming RPG Antharion will be released on July 15th on PC and Mac. The iPad version will be released next month. The game can also be pre-ordered now on Orphic Software’s website for $17.99. On the 15th, backers will receive…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he Kickstarter campaign for Compulsion Games’ psychedelic We Happy Few is almost over, with less than 24 hours remaining before the curtains close on it. The campaign has already met its goal of $250,000CAD; but in the event you’re not entirely up to speed about…
When Dead State first shambled its way out of Early Access last December, the game was riddled with glitches. While some of them were certainly amusing (like zombies walking endlessly into walls, blissfully unaware of your party members attacking them), most of the bugs were…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]’m going to start this review off by getting something off of my chest: I’m not much of a car buff. I’m not even a little bit of a car buff, in fact I’m probably as from a car buff as can be. Before…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here Came an Echo from Iridium Games is a sci-fi strategy game that’s fully voice-controlled. It’s certainly a unique premise for a game, but is it well-executed? My initial experiences with There Came an Echo were highly negative ones. When I first launched the game,…
In a video update released earlier today by Warhorse Studios, creative director Daniel Vávra confirmed that the upcoming historical role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been pushed back to Summer 2016. The cause of the delay as being due to unforeseen events last year slowing development,…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he sequel to 2012’s Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a bloodstained orgy of ever-escalating violence. The second game was confirmed to be the last in the series, and fans were eagerly waiting to see how it would wrap up the plot….
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]h, druids. They’re the original, blood-soaked hippies of yore. Where would the Celts be today if not for the highly mysterious woodland guardians of yesteryear? While the option to play as a druid has been included in numerous games (including Diablo II and the…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he Escapists is, in a way, the anti-Prison Architect. Whereas Prison Architect places the player in the role of all-seeing overseer constructing a prison and doing their best to keep the inmates locked in, The Escapists places the player in the role of a…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen Consortium first launched last January, it was rather rough. I had purchased it the day it came out, and my initial reactions were those of dismay. It was very glitchy, prone to crashing at random, and there were some very aggravating performance issues….
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]h, zombies. They’re practically everywhere at this point, shambling their way into virtually every form of media. DoubleBear Productions have taken a bite out of the CRPG genre with Dead State, a RPG set in the midst of a zombie outbreak. But is it…