“Ori and the Blind Forest” Review
Ori and the Blind Forest is a visual masterpiece, but don’t let its lush visuals fool you. It’s quite an action-packed Metroidvania-style adventure that can be unforgiving if you go too easy on it.
Read moreOri and the Blind Forest is a visual masterpiece, but don’t let its lush visuals fool you. It’s quite an action-packed Metroidvania-style adventure that can be unforgiving if you go too easy on it.
Read moreIt’s been three years since the release of Mario Party 9, and while that game came with fresh gameplay concepts, it didn’t exactly translate to the same fun that previous games in the series had. Unfortunately, the latest entry in the…
Read moreThe Kirby series is one that Nintendo doesn’t seem afraid to play around with. Aside from his usual adventures, Kirby has had his own racing game, a pinball game, and even a TV show. While that last example was probably…
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Read moreToday, I took a look at the demo for Adventures of Pip, which is an upcoming action-platformer from Tic Toc Games that will be out in May for the PC/Mac on Steam, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 4. It…
Read moreOne of the pleasant surprises to show up at NIS America’s press event in San Francisco a couple weeks ago was their announcement that they’d be localizing Rodea the Sky Soldier, and that it would be coming out on both…
Read moreIn celebration of next week’s release of the Resogun Defenders expansion on PS4 next week, Housemarque took the opportunity to add some big new features to Resogun to give their fans a new way to play the game in the…
Read moreWe played a bit of Apotheon, which came out last week for the PS4 and PC/Steam. Apotheon is a side-scrolling action game with an incredibly striking art style that is set in Ancient Greece, where the Gods have forsaken your…
Read moreWe take a look at the new beta for Battlefield Hardline’s multiplayer mode, which features two new modes that were not in the “Alpha” that we played last summer around E3 2014. The first is a version of conquest called…
Read moreDuring a time that is typically slow for game releases, it never hurts to drop a hotter genre game. WB Games and Techland do just that with the release of Dying Light. But does it do enough to offer an…
Read moreAfter sort of sticking us with a cliffhanger (oh come on, you know I had to do that) in Iron From Ice, Telltale brings the next episode of their Game of Thrones series, The Lost Lords, which picks up immediately…
Read moreThere are a lot of reasons to play video games. They’re fun, exciting, surreal and imaginative, and best yet, they can actually be very good. Few games, as good as they are, give you a reason to relate to them…
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