What if Pac-Man was not all about survival but more score focused? That’s what Bandai Namco did with the Championship Edition series. The first Pac-Man CE gave more opportunities to eat the ghosts for big points. The DX version turned it up a notch introducing ghost trains to the formula. There you can eat a […]
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest of Square Enix’s reboot of the Deus Ex Franchise, whose story toys with the thought-provoking question “what does it mean to be human.” Mankind Divided specifically evokes imagery and themes that blatantly borrow from the pre-Civil Rights Movement era. Right from the start (well, after a full-sized tutorial), […]
It has been a long road for Hello Games with No Man’s Sky. A small indie team behind arguably the most anticipated game this year in the gaming industry should be a feel good story right? Sony’s marketing hype train, numerous delays and promises not being delivered from the initial reveal have been the game’s […]
Game stories have been told in a variety of ways. What if I told you there’s a game story told by ballet dancing and modern art? The artistic side has been seen lots of times, but ballet dancing is a first for many. Plastic Studios tackles all of this with Bound, the last game of Sony’s 2016 […]
It’s August. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. Children are playing catch in the park. The outdoors is wide and beautiful… So, I’m going to go play some Batman. Who wants to go outside anyway? The first episode of the Batman Telltale Series is out today. It’s subtitled Realm of Shadows. The title […]
After thatgamecompany’s last masterpiece Journey took off to critical acclaim, many wonder how can they can top themselves again? The answer to that is Abzu, made by some of Journey’s developers now at Giant Squid. Ever wonder what an underwater Journey would be like? That is Abzu in a nutshell. Abzu’s underwater worlds makes you […]
Usually, when I ask people what their least favorite level in any given game, the answer I get is “the water level.” From Ocarina of Time’s water temple to Super Mario Bros. World 2-2, no one seems to like water. So it comes across as something of a ballsy move when Insomniac, of Ratchet & Clank […]
Zipping around at the speed of sound, a lone samurai seeks to break out of his prison. And he will cut down any who stands in his way. If that sounds like the kind of badass that you’s expect from a boss, then you’re in luck. In Furi, that samurai badass is you. Furi is a […]
For those of you in the dark, Mighty No. 9 is the long-awaited “spiritual successor” to the legendary Mega Man games. Along with other projects like Yooka-Laylee and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Mighty No. 9 gained a massive following off of its Kickstarter campaign back in 2013. It exceeded its initial campaign goals, and […]
During all the E3 madness there was also some games being released and not just talked about or announced. One of those games was Trials of the Blood Dragon; announced and then immediately released during Ubisoft’s annual conference. A rather unlikely mash up between Trials, the popular physics based motorcycle series and Blood Dragon, the […]
