In a weird way, I miss the days of the early-to-mid 2000s. Nostalgia plays a part, yes, but in that time period the gaming community seemed a lot more forgiving, at least in my eyes. The name-calling was less volatile, consumer hate/ distrust was not at a constant fever-pitch, and…
Read MoreThe original Toki Tori was released for the Game Boy Color on Semptember 12th, 2001. During the nearly 12 years that it took for Toki Tori 2 to become a reality, developer Two Tribes spent over half of that time being a game studio dedicated to the creation of games…
Read MoreSometimes a game just resonates with you, and it can be hard to put a finger on exactly why it does so. The Splatters when it released on the Xbox 360 was well-received by Matt when he reviewed it last year. I know I certainly enjoyed it, sinking a good…
Read MoreMagic: The Gathering has been around for a long time – and I have been playing it for a long time myself. I first got into it as a freshman in college back in 1994 right before the Ice Age set came out the following year. There have been digital…
Read MoreDaedalic Entertainment has done an excellent job of providing games that help show that while point-and-click adventure games are no longer as prevalent in video gaming as they used to be, the genre is far from dead either. The Night of the Rabbit is a tale that follows a young…
Read MoreI grew up on platformers, which are often a test of several things – reflexes, memorisation and in no small part – patience. There are a lot of things that can ruin the experience for players, making platforming titles on of the tougher genres to ‘get right’.Rush Bros is a…
Read MoreI love stumbling onto a game where my expectations are, frankly, low – but coming away feeling like I found a game that is perhaps better than not only what I expected, but the sum of its parts. This is exactly how I feel about Defender’s Quest: Valley of the…
Read MoreOut of all of the characters in classic literary fiction, it makes the most sense to create a Diablo-like action role-playing game based off of Abraham Van Helsing. Introduced in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Van Helsing is a monster-hunting professional that has many titles to his name. He also was not…
Read MoreThe video game industry is in a transitional phase. Yes, it is reaching that period every five or six years where new consoles start replacing old consoles, but this phase is much more complicated than just that. Along with those new consoles bringing uncertainty and doubt to the biggest corporations…
Read MoreMetro 2033 was an interesting game that had a lot of really good ideas, but plenty of rough edges as well. Metro: Last Light is 4A Games’ followup adventure featuring Artyom, the protagonist from the first game. Metro takes place in a post-nuclear Moscow where survival is challenged in a…
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