After slipping into the shadows ten years ago, the stealth-adventure genre’s flagship series, Thief, has resurfaced. Despite Looking Glass Studios and Ion Storm, Thief’s original development studios, being long defunct; the series’ publisher Eidos has survived a merger into Square-Enix which brings the tale of continuity to Canada. Announced back in 2009 by then recently […]
It is a slight miracle that South Park: The Stick of Truth has even got released. This game’s turbulent history has been well publicized over the years from THQ’s collapse and switching publishers to it’s numerous delays. You would be forgiven in fearing the worst for this title. After playing the game for 30 minutes […]
A House Divided is one of the more interesting episodes of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, across both seasons, so far. Clementine has been through a lot (to say the least) since she was first introduced to us. Growing up in this world has made her far tougher and grown up than she should be […]
The first Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, released originally in 2010, was a weird game. It played similarly to God of War and gave up the ability-gated gameplay the series became known for starting with Symphony of the Night on the first Playstation. Its weirdness, however, came from it actually being a solid 3D character action game […]
Asssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was among my favorite games of last year. Ubisoft finally perfected the combination of open world exploration and combat with a lovable protagonist. Unfortunately the Freedom Cry DLC, now recently released as a standalone game, gets almost every aspect of that formula wrong. Players take control of Adewale, who was the quartermaster […]
For numerous years, Capcom fans have requested for the return of one of their classic franchises, Strider. The original and it’s sequel were instant classics on the NES and Genesis respectively. We have seen Hiryu in past Capcom games such as the Marvel vs. Capcom series, but it has been over two decades since the […]
Single player DLC for story based games is a tricky one. The best stories are usually self contained and any attempt to try to add to that later always seem below par or rather pointless. Add to the fact that it comes eight months after the game’s release and doesn’t involve the main protagonist you […]
The ability to release episodic content instead of a complete product can have both positive and negative effects. On one hand it means you are delivered a story at the pace the developer wants you to consume it, you have time to think things through and speculate what might happen next and are left chomping […]
The LEGO Movie: The Videogame is exactly as crazy as it sounds. Actually, it’s more crazy than it sounds. It is an excellent movie tie-in, perhaps one of the best ever. The cutscenes are ripped straight out of the movie, so the plot follows perfectly in line with the film. Restrictive source material is often […]
Only one rhythm game franchise has made to the next generation of consoles out of so many that made the genre popular again last generation. I didn’t think anyone expected Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise to that one when it first began a few years ago compared to other franchises such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, […]
