[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s a long-time fan of Tale of Tales, I found myself excited and astonished when they took to Kickstarter with Sunset. To me it didn’t symbolize a last ditch effort or anything of that sort. Instead, it seemed like proof that they had finally…
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Retro seems to be all the rage these days on Kickstarter between remakes, sequels, and games inspired by the classics. Mad Gear Games is taking on the latter in their homage to the glory days of the NES with A Hole New World. Side scroll and…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]im Schafer made a huge splash in the crowdfunding scene in early 2012 and put Kickstarter on the map. He pretty much set the scene for every game (adventure or otherwise) that would eventually seek funding by the fans. Asking for less than half…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them…
[dropcap size=big]”Y[/dropcap]ou gotta do what you gotta do.” That seems to be the motto in every post-apocalyptic wasteland tale since the dawn of the genre, but this mantra is beat into you throughout Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, a dark point-and-click adventure game set in…
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Orion Trail? Well, if you’re anything like me, you might have thought “The Oregon Trail” (or Orion Burger but that’s beside the point…) This computer classic was treacherous but enjoyable thanks tot he fact…
Stuart Ryall on Surviving The Frozen Wasteland of Impact Winter with Ahmad Khan [divider] Impact Winter is a post-apocalyptic survival RPG in the vein of Fallout that tasks players with surviving a frozen hellscape that’s overcome much of the planet thanks to a stray asteroid. Unlike…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
Lawyers Against Gaming Corruption Campaign – Was it Misguided? by Marcus Estrada [divider] The internet has changed tremendously over the past few decades. At the start, consumers connected to BBSes and chatted with others in their neighborhood (or paid fees for long distance connections) and…
I was flat out addicted to Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. I was a devious son of a gun that always left my roller coasters incomplete just to watch my attendees die in a comical fashion. Why was this funny? Not sure….
Unwinnable Weekly – Issue 1 – Reviewed By Marcus Estrada [divider] Unwinnable Weekly had a severely stressful Kickstarter campaign for most of its funding period. As the last days were finally upon them, fans and the project creators pushed harder than ever before to make…
Nekro – Early Access Review By Nathaniel Liles [divider] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]’m sure you guys are sick of hearing me say this, but going in to Nekro, I had no idea what to expect. I asked my boss, Greg, to hook me up with something to review…
The future of space exploration is almost never approached as a happy subject in videogames, there’s always a tidy mix of blood, despair, weapons, and futility. So how about The Red Solstice from Croatian developers Ironward; does it cast a positive light on Martian terraforming,…
Dear Diary, The most horrible thing happened last night; Jessica walked in on me while I was on the computer. There I was, relaxing, taking some much needed me time, forgetting about the world around me, trying to just focus on the monitor. The screen…