With the Destiny beta officially wrapped up, gamers are left with just over a month to wait before the full game comes out on September 9th. This gives the folks at Bungie to use what they’ve learned to improve the final product, and gives us a chance to reflect on what we’ve seen thus far. But after blasting countless aliens [Read more…]
Three years after its release, Portal 2 still proves to be one of the more popular games on Steam. Fans keep the experience fresh through submitting user-designed test chambers, and more gamers are experiencing the game for the first time thanks to Our Lord Gabe Newell’s many Steam Sales. Those who have played the game for a while, however, are [Read more…]
Not to jump to immediate conclusions, but with the release of Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U it looks as if Nintendo proved they could save the console with a single highly anticipated game. Wii U sales increased dramatically this past weekend due to the release of this next installment in gaming’s most famous kart racing series. And while [Read more…]
In recent years, driving games have embraced a jack-of-all-trades attitude. You’ll sell more copies if you can be everything to everyone, or so the thinking goes. Start with an enormous range of vehicles, tracks, and game modes, and add on an array of assists that allow players of any skill level to enjoy the game. The result is a huge [Read more…]
Deck-building card games are a strangely fascinating part of the tabletop world. Where a traditional trading card deck is build before the game actually takes place, deck-building games make this process part of the competition. It’s an unusual choice that gives players a chance to chat and joke about one another’s strategies over the course of the game. This is [Read more…]
It took me a week to finally wrap my head around Burial at Sea – Episode Two, the final batch of DLC for BioShock Infinite and the final piece of BioShock content developed by Ken Levine and his team at Irrational Games. Set up as something of a “grand finale” for Levine’s contributions to the BioShock franchise, playing this DLC [Read more…]
With the Titanfall beta wrapped up, things are looking fairly promising for the highly anticipated shooter. The game’s core mechanics are solid, and the maps and modes present in the beta seemed to be well thought out. In its final retail version, Titanfall stands a good chance of becoming a major selling point for the Xbox One. Unless, of course, [Read more…]
There’s something delightfully simple about tanks in video games. The “tank level” has long been a staple of first-person shooters, offering gamers a brief respite from the tactical stresses of infantry combat. Enemies that would be terrifying on foot are mere cannon fodder when you’re encased in an armored shell of awesomeness. Be it the Scorpion from the Halo series [Read more…]
Reviewing a game like Samurai Gunn objectively, while at the same time trying to account for everyone’s subjective experience, is impossible. I remember my friends and I turning to each other and calling the game our “game of the year” for 2013. This may seem completely ridiculous to some. How can an 8-bit art style stack up to the visual [Read more…]
To say that Pokémon X & Y was a highly anticipated game is probably an understatement. Pair that with the fact that it pushed most of the people I know to spend a couple hundred bucks on a 3DS and expectations were pretty high. Oh yeah, and let’s not forgot they added a whole new type of Pokémon with the [Read more…]