Most Kickstarter games out there are trying to emulate the feel and gameplay of a classic title. It’s not our fault, as a gaming culture, that we were given an excellent foundation to build on, after all. Unfortunately, too many games forget that we see…
Games these days are strictly divided into two camps. A ton of gaming, including the vast majority of the AAA lineup, focuses a great deal of their time and effort into making a game as realistic as humanly possible, while the other side of the…
Campaign Postmortem: Ashen Rift By Brad Jones [divider] For every Kickstarter project that finds its funding, there’s one that can’t quite get the support that it needs. Often, the reasons behind a failed Kickstarter campaign can be very obvious, but there are also times that…
Things have come to a head in Israel recently, after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank things have gone from bad to worse. Right now, airstrikes and rocket attacks are a seemingly daily occurance. Talks of peace seem to be quite…
Inspired by a real-life Ninja Pizza Girl, a game bearing the same title is being created by Disparity Games, a team with tons of industry experience and a gorgeous game to show for it. Apparently, Ninja Pizza Girl brands itself as “a serious game about…
I’ve really never been one for world-building games. It’s always something that I’d rather watch someone play than something I’d like to play myself, and I am amazed by the incredible things people have managed to do with Minecraft and games like it. Let’s face…
For a while there, every single video game was about zombies, and that is in no way an exaggeration (it is). The fact of the matter is that the media became completely saturated with zombies for a long time, and it became so completely banal…
Nerd-dom celebrity Felicia Day, actress in Buffy, Supernatural, and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, as well as star/writer/creator of The Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption recently posted on her Facebook about the newly-released Kickstarter game Divinity: Original Sin. Day is an avid gamer who has voiced…
Insurgency Reviewed By Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]G[/dropcap]amers love to complain about “brown military shooters”, right? “They’re ruining gaming!” I hear you say, “They just make the same game over and over again and people give them all the money!!!” Well, be that as it may,…
Indiana Moe and the Raiders of the Cheap Consoles By Mitchell ‘Moe’ Long [divider] 7:30 AM, Saturday Morning [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he irony of the Roots crooning “Lazy Afternoon” fills the room as my cell phone alarm blares from a tinny speaker. I unwind from a straightjacket of…
What Is Early Access? By Nathaniel Liles [divider] Alright, guys. It’s time for me to talk to you about something serious. As serious as this face. That’s some serious stuff right there. So what exactly am I here to talk about today? Well, in the…
Welcome to our weekly feature, “Question Of The Week.” As you can tell from that entirely original title each week we pose a question to our panel and they chime in with their opinions. No one sees one another’s responses until the story is posted,…
5 Kickstarter Games That Failed While You Were Backing Potato Salad By Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]’m just as guilty as the rest of the internet when it comes to the crazy hype surrounding the Potato Salad Kickstarter. I do my job here with two glorious…
It’s not hard to find something funny (or offensively unfunny) about Rob Ford. Give it a quick Google. Go on, now, do it. I’ll wait. Welcome back. Yeah, he totally did all that. Smoked crack on camera? Check. DUI and possession? One check each. Proposing…
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore a Fedora, the upcoming crime-solving block-fest has been struck with a tragedy and while it’s not a tragedy that will lead to a huge delay or a cancellation, it’s one that has given the game a new purpose….
It seems that these days, survival horror has become split into exactly two distinct styles of gameplay. We have third-person action games that claim to be “survival horror” because it’s dark a bunch and stuff’s spooky, and we have first-person survival horror games that, while…
You must be logged in to post a comment.