Your princess has been kidnapped and you’ll need to run, jump, and fall through an assortment of levels to get her back. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Cloudberry Kingdom isn’t trying to reinvent the genre; it… Continue reading
Weird vegetation, underground villages, and even questionable terrain are just some of the things you’ll run into as you make your way through the mysterious alien world in Capsized. This 2D action platformer… Continue reading
If Vikings are attacking your kingdom, what else can you do but strap on a sheep to a catapult and send it flying their way? Part Angry Birds, part real-time strategy game, CastleStorm… Continue reading
Co-op games are all about working together with your friends to clear a stage or beat up some baddies, but what happens if you have the option to backstab them too? The answer… Continue reading
Supergiant Games’ upcoming title Transistor blends Bastion’s dynamic storytelling techniques and colorful art style to create a new experience full of wonder and intrigue. While both games look similar, Transistor offers a different combat system and… Continue reading
MOBA (or multiplayer online battle arena) games like League of Legends and DotA may call PCs their home, but this spin on the traditional real-time strategy genre has started making its way onto… Continue reading
Pid tells the story of Kurt, a small boy who must make his way back home after he gets separated from his classmates and ends up on an unknown planet. What he doesn’t… Continue reading
Consoles aren’t typically the first place you’ll go to when searching for free-to-play games as that model seems to have made a nice niche for itself on PCs. It may come as a… Continue reading
The Sega Dreamcast didn’t last long, but in its short lifespan, it managed to produce a handful of original games that opened our eyes to possibilities we had never seen before. If you… Continue reading
There are so many ways one can play a Rock Band game. Over the years, Rock Band games have given players the chance to live out their fantasies and be rock stars in… Continue reading
Upon first glance, CastleStorm may look like Angry Birds with knights and Vikings, but after demoing the game at E3 this week, those similarities instantly flew out the window. In fact, boulders, grenades,… Continue reading
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 was a good attempt at giving players a continuation of the original Genesis titles, but its wonky physics and gimmicky stages kept it from achieving true potential.… Continue reading
Any PC gamer out there can tell you that multiplayer online battle arena games are taking the online gaming scene by storm. In just the past year, giants like League of Legends and… Continue reading
There was a small indie booth at PAX East that players kept revisiting throughout the weekend. That booth belonged to the team at Ronimo Games who had flown all the way from the… Continue reading
This weekend at PAX East I had the opportunity to sit down with Sleeping Dogs and United Front Games producer Dan Sochan and play a demo of the open-world game that takes players… Continue reading
Aside from being a clever portmanteau that makes me think of brawling avocados, Guacamelee is an incredibly charming platformer by Drinkbox Studios that was as much of a joy to play as it… Continue reading
Hell Yeah! is a game about a rabbit named Ash, the prince of Hell who had some racy photos of him and his rubber ducky spread all over the internet. He also happens… Continue reading
Bastion was the last game I played that took me by surprise due to the amount of depth an indie developer was able to put into a downloadable title. The game told a… Continue reading
Throughout history, countless lives have been lost in the many battles and wars brought forth from man’s universal pursuit of power. From the Battle of Thermopylae to the Thirty Years’ War, these bouts… Continue reading
Fighting games always reach different groups of gamers who either play for fun or play to win. While the pro gaming community may want a fighting game that offers balanced damage scaling, responsive… Continue reading
Remember how Samus lands on an unknown planet and gradually gains new weapons that allow her to venture even deeper in search of the evil menace that lurks at its core? I’m sure… Continue reading
One lesson that I took from playing From Dust is that geology is an amazing subject to study. I remember taking a geology class in college and learning all about rocks and the formations of… Continue reading
Bastion is a contradiction, a finished work-in-progress. As soon as you begin the game, you will get the feeling that it is unfolding live before your eyes, and that your character’s every move affects… Continue reading
Konami’s classic arcade game Rush’n Attack gets an HD facelift on your Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the game still plays very much like its 1985 predecessor. Rush’n Attack: Ex-Patriot may give… Continue reading
Fuelcell Games made an appearance this weekend at PAX East in Boston where they showcased their upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. The game may have a long, convoluted name,… Continue reading
Leave it to a developer like Double Fine to create a game that puts you in a world of Russian matryoshka dolls and lets you harness the simple power of stacking as the… Continue reading
When you play a first person shooter game like Breach, you will feel a lot closer to the battlefield than you would if you played any other shooter. Sure, you are still playing… Continue reading
The first time I played a Bomberman game, I was hooked on its multiplayer mode. Bomberman games don’t really have an impressive single player mode, but get some people together in a room,… Continue reading
Microbot is a futuristic twin-stick shooter published by Electronic Arts and currently available on Xbox Live Arcade. In the future, it seems humans don’t have enough white blood cells in their bodies to… Continue reading
If you were around during the 16bit era when Japanese RPGs were the hottest imports, you’d remember how many hours you might have spent leveling up your party members as you traveled from… Continue reading
