Does this sound familiar? Humanity reached greedily for the stars. As we sought to tame the unfeeling cosmos, our greatest vices found purchase on new, fertile soil. Now, the ragged, war-torn descendents of mankind live out their miserable lives as slaves of corrupt megacorporations and petty warlords, who […]
I have stumbled onto a new gaming addiction. And fortunately for you, this addiction has a name: Payday 2. I am here, breathlessly, to talk to you about my new addiction and maybe, just maybe, reinstate my eXplorminator cred after having fallen into the deep end of first-person […]
There may be no game more emblematic of the state of modern PC gaming than FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games. FTL is a procedurally-generated, retro-graphics, board-game-inspired Roguelike from an indie developer. The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter, released on Steam and is currently available for […]
XCOM 2 is amazing. The end. Oh, right, that’s too short. Okay, let’s start from the beginning. In 2012, Firaxis released XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a reboot of the XCOM series from 1994. It was a great game, with a few missing features that the fans were clamoring for. […]
Today I’m going to tell you about Beyond Sol. I’m going to complain about the graphics, the game mechanics, the empire management… basically everything.Then, at the end of the article, I’m going to tell you that I actually recommend you give this game a try, despite my issues. […]
When I first laid eyes on The Molasses Flood’s maiden offering, The Flame in the Flood, a few things came to mind. First: Gosh this looks purdy. Second: That little dog is cute. Third: Wow, this plays nicely into my pet theory about Oregon Trail being the progenitor […]
Western-themed games are a surprisingly underrepresented bunch; strategy games with a western theme, even more so. How about western-themed strategy games with demonic overtones and a touch of choose-your-own-adventure style narrative? “Impossible,” you might say! Normally I would have agreed with you, right up until CreativeForge Games came […]
I have noticed lately that I have a tendency to gravitate to pretty looking games. I’m not sure when this started, but it certainly happened with Armello. If you like board game mechanics integrated into a Studio Ghibli-like fantasy adventure, well, you’re in for a treat – designed […]
“My God, it’s full of stars!” – 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke When I was a wee tot, probably around ten or eleven years old, I owned a bedraggled paperback copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. I have no idea where […]
I remember, years ago, going to see Van Helsing with a good friend at the local silver screen. It was an evening show and we were the only ones in the theater. Before you dismiss Van Helsing as a diabolical abomination of filmmaking (which it probably is, but […]
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