The big rumors out of last week’s GDC are that both Sony and Microsoft are working on a mid-console-generation upgrade. Microsoft’s Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is proposing “more hardware innovation in the console space,” and an end to the era in which “consoles lock the hardware and the software platforms together at the beginning of the […]
Shadow Complex is a Metroidvania platformer that came out in 2009. It was released by Epic Games. People loved it. This isn’t a surprise because it is a well-made game with plenty to do and Peter David wrote it. He’s one of my favorite writers, he’s written for Hulk, Star Trek, and he had this […]
Tom Clancy’s The Division is unlike any Tom Clancy game before it. It has a lot of the same themes that those games had, stuff like future military tech, political storylines and combat that feels tactical. But instead of being a more standard shooter, like the older Rainbow Six games, The Division is an open […]
About four years ago, Blizzard unleashed Diablo III on the world. Diablo III is an always-online game in which even the single-player campaign required players to first connect to the online servers. As a result, most early adopters recall seeing a few instances of this. Blizzard took a lot of heat for the botched launch of Diablo 3, and […]
Have you been jonesing for another opportunity to jam a chainsaw bayonet into the face of your Locust enemies? How about into the faces of your friends? Is this line of questioning really troubling and likely to put me on a watchlist of some variety? Since the answer to all of those questions is “yes”, […]
Ori and the Blind Forest is a Metroidvania platformer that came out around this time last year. It was a beautiful game produced by Moon Studios that looks and feels like you are playing your way through the mind of Hayao Miyizaki. The story is all about love, forgiveness, and hope while the villain is […]
Bethesda hasn’t said much about their upcoming Fallout 4 DLC, aside from giving some names and saying that it was coming. Now we have more details, and just as with the original game’s release, there isn’t much time between the announcement of the details and the actual release; the first set of DLC, Automatron, is coming […]
