Feb
25
2011
25
2011
Elder Scrolls V Has Done a Fine Skyrim Job
Uh... that sounded weird. Maybe I should've said that based on this new gameplay footage-loaded trailer, Elder Scrolls V seems to have done a fine job with Skyrim. Ladies and gents, since I'm still taking Mass Effect and Dragon Age ...
Jan
25
2011
25
2011
10 Seriously @#$%ed-Up Text Adventure Games
Text adventures have a lot in common with radio drama: both overcome the limits of their medium by appealing to the imagination. And like radio (though more like, well, text), text-based game developers eventually realized they could get away with ...
Oct
24
2010
24
2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent will induce heart problems.
It's almost Halloween time, and being that it's that time of the year - I decided I needed a good scare game. The timing was perfect, as Frictional Games, the folks who brought us the Penumbra series (which was part ...
Oct
11
2010
11
2010
7 Terrible Things About PC-DOS Gaming
Ultima, Test Drive, Wing Commander. All games that ran on the Disk Operating System, better known as DOS. If you're old enough to feel nostalgic about these games, then you are likely old enough to remember dealing with the nightmares ...
Oct
03
2010
03
2010
Still Minecrafting. Seriously, I can’t stop!
I posted my original review of Minecraft about a month ago now, having picked up the game shortly before that. I thought that after completing a few of my planned structures, getting some diamond gear, ...
Sep
28
2010
28
2010
9 Great Lesser-Known Adventure Games from the Past 9 Years
Adventure games are not dead, dammit! True, they once were the height of innovation; yes, there have been many ill-conceived entries in the genre. For years, adventure games have been thought of with scorn and incredulity if they were thought ...
Aug
21
2010
21
2010
The Delicious Old School RPG Beauty that is Eschalon: Book 2
I have some strange attachment to classic dungeon-crawling RPG games. I’m not exactly sure what the drive is, but I have a pretty good idea and there’s something definitely there. There’s just something so liberating about ...
The Protomen - Rock Music and Mega Man Combined.
An Irrelevant Take on the Zombie Goodness of the Walking Dead
Halloween Fear Fest - Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus
Amnesia: The Dark Descent will induce heart problems.
Redline - 7 Years in the making and damn, it looks good.