Review: Assassin’s Creed: Unity
“When it works…” Release Date: November 11, 2014 Genre: Adventure Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft ESRB Mature MSRP: $59.99 By now you’ve probably...
View ArticleReview: Sunset Overdrive
The Awesomepocalypse is, well, awesome. Release Date: October 28, 2014 Genre: Action/Shooter Platform: Xbox One Developer: Insomniac Games Publisher: Microsoft Studios ESRB Mature MSRP: $59.99 The...
View ArticleReview: Road Not Taken
And that has made all the difference. Release Date: August 5, 2014 Genre: Puzzle Platform: PlayStation 4, PC Developer: Spry Fox Publisher: Spry Fox ESRB E for Everyone MSRP: $14.99 (Free for...
View ArticleReview: The Swapper
It’s lonely out in space, and that’s just fine Release Date: August 5, 2014; PC May 30, 2013 Genre: Puzzle/Platformer Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC Developer: Facepalm...
View ArticleOpinion: Can AAA games make effective social commentary?
Flash back with me, if you will, to June 2012: Ubisoft had just wrapped up a stellar E3 with its debut trailer for Watch Dogs, Microsoft had yet to find themselves in the midst of a firestorm of...
View ArticlePreview: Battlefield: Hardline
Shooter fatigue is real, my friends, and even a cursory glance at last week’s E3 announcements will corroborate that fact. From Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare apparently taking the genre in a decidedly...
View Article‘Don’t Starve: Giant Edition’ coming to PS Vita
In a post on the PlayStation blog, Klei Entertainment’s Corey Rollins confirmed that Don’t Starve: Giant Edition will be coming to PlayStation Vita and will include both Don’t Starve and the Reign of...
View ArticleReview: Watch Dogs
Familiar, Yet Different. Release Date: May 27, 2014 Genre: Action Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft ESRB Mature MSRP: $59.99...
View ArticleReview: Trials Fusion
Welcome to the future. Release Date: April 16, 2014 Genre: Racing Platform: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Developer: RedLynx Publisher: Ubisoft ESRB Everyone 10+ MSRP: Digital Download $19.99;...
View ArticleSpace Westerns and the thematic roots of ‘Titanfall’
Exploring Your Roots Knowing where you and the things you love come from is important, and our history can tell us a lot about who we are and where we’re going. This is also why origin stories are so...
View Article‘Dead Man’s Trail’ and a conversation with Chris Totten
Zombies are always awesome, right? This line of thinking has predominated popular culture ever since The Walking Dead first made a colossal splash on AMC, and it seems like you can’t throw a stone...
View ArticleReview: Titanfall
The Next Evolution. Release Date: March 11, 2014, March 25, 2013 (Xbox 360) Genre: First-person shooter Platform: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One Developer: Respawn Entertainment Publisher: EA ESRB Mature MSRP:...
View ArticleWhen the lights go out: What happens when online games support drops?
With Nintendo’s recent announcement that it would be discontinuing its support of Wii and DS WiFi services comes the realization of a stark new reality for gamers. The recent turn towards a primarily...
View ArticleHands-on impressions: Titanfall
The beta for Respawn Entertainment’s hotly anticipated Titanfall has been live for the past several days, and after hours and hours of Pilot on Titan action, it’s looking like the game is living up to...
View ArticleReview: Nathan Meunier’s ‘Interview Fu’
The second in his Game Journo Guides series, Nathan Meunier’s Interview Fu: The Game Journo Guide To Conducting Killer Interviews builds on the solid foundation laid down in Up Up Down Down Left WRITE....
View Article5 Things We Want from ‘Halo 5′
After the events at the end of the stunning Halo 4 and the announcement at E3 of a follow-up on the Xbox One, fans have been left to speculate as to the direction the franchise would be taking. As...
View ArticleMy Violent Art: Placing Games in Conversation
When Ken Levine talks, the gaming world has a tendency to listen, and his recent statements that art – video game included – has a responsibility to represent things as they really are, or in ways that...
View ArticleReview: Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
The Trials of Being A Good Brother Click here to view the embedded video. Little brothers can be a pain. We all know this. In fact, they can occasionally be so annoying that an older sibling might be...
View Article5 Things to Love (and Hate) About ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’
Earlier this week, Sam took a look at what the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises could learn from one another. Building on that, we’ve decided to run down five things to love (as well as five...
View ArticleReview: LocoCycle
Broke-o-Cycle. The latest offering from Twisted Pixel, LocoCycle, begins with a ten minute live-action story sequence that features terrible acting, suspect camerawork, and characterization that ranges...
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