Everyone has painful memories that they wish they could forget. Life isn’t always pretty and we all have our ups just as we have our downs. Making it through these events is entirely up to us. Some of us ask for help. Others try to make it through on our…
Read MoreEver since Portal, I think it’s safe to say that the first-person puzzle genre has suffered. A lot of games have tried, often unsuccessfully, to do what Portal did, and that is to create a game that successfully combines strong puzzle elements with an interesting narrative. Q.U.B.E., or Quick Understanding…
Read MoreSquare Enix has been bouncing its Dragon Quest franchise around for some time, which each game being exclusive to a console. Originally with Nintendo, Dragon Quest VII moved to PlayStation. Dragon Quest IX moved back to Nintendo. Now – for the first time – the iconic JRPG series is going…
Read MoreHatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel/ dating game where you play as a human girl who goes to a school for the gifted. Gifted birds. Literally. Your classmates are pigeons and doves, and your job is to say the right things so that your chosen birdie falls in love with…
Read MoreSo often when we talk about great games, they come from the minds of the creators who have been in the industry for a very long time. And so it’s really great to see young developers being given the chance to show the world what they have to offer, and…
Read MoreI am terrible at fighting games. I watch what happens at events like EVO and shake my head in shame, knowing that I will never even come close to that kind of level of skill. Too many button combinations, too much speed. I’m a JRPG player, damn it, I like…
Read MoreI’ve done a lot of thinking about Deception IV. Having first played it a year or so ago on the PlayStation Vita, I have always had this lingering notion that as much as I enjoy it (and I really, really enjoy it), it’s never quite been the game I want…
Read MoreTeam17 used to be associated with one thing, and one thing alone: Worms. And as good as that franchise has been to the publisher over the years, it’s now clearly looking to broaden its range. It produced Flockers a while ago, and that was good fun, and now it has…
Read MoreWe love Never Alone. We really love Never Alone. We love Never Alone so much it received a rare five-star review and gave it praise for being “a rich exploration of a story we simply don’t hear often” and “a genuinely authentic cultural vision.” Now Sony has announced on the…
Read MoreI love slasher and stalker horror films. Before I was legally allowed to watch them, I was devouring stuff like Friday the 13th, Halloween, the Chucky films, an even the more obscure stuff like the Leprechaun series (Jennifer Aniston back in the day…). Related reading: Here are ten of my…
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