I admit I have a bit of a soft spot for space combat games. I feel like it’s a genre that doesn’t get the respect that it deserves. There are plenty of classic space games that I could list in support of argument that space games are just neato torpedo, but I won’t. Mostly because [...]

I’m old. Not to the point where I need devices to assist my daily functions old; but I am old to the point where I listen to music that people born in the ’90s can’t seem to easily identify. This means that I played a lot of video games that would fall under similar circumstances. [...]

When Resident Evil: Revelations came out last year, it was overshadowed by the impending release of console big brother, Resident Evil 6. While Resident Evil 6 ended up being criticized for a multitude of issues and is still routinely ravaged today, Revelations was praised as a refreshing return to form for a franchise that had [...]

The planet is almost completely dead, just a round lumpy circle of dry rock. No life, nearly featureless, and doing little more than taking up space in a grey kind of way. This won’t do at all. With an effort, it conjures up a colossus that can begin the work or terraforming the planet’s surface. [...]

After a lot of drama due to THQ’s turmoil, Metro: Last Light has finally been released. In a way, its timing is perfect since so many have been able to enjoy the original game due to its super-cheap Humble Bundle offering, allowing anticipation to build for many in a fairly organic way. Last Light follows [...]

There was a certain novelty to the idea of Anomaly: Warzone Earth that made the gaming press “ooh” and “aah” so much and fawn over the game. Much of that was because the idea of a Tower Offense game was something legitimately new in a sea of so much of the same things. Another part [...]

Tower Defense games are in a weird transition right now as a genre. On one hand, it’s probably never been a better time to develop and publish one, but on the other, the space is crowded, and there is only room for so much treading of the same territory. Necessary inventions and innovations like putting [...]

Side-scrolling games used to be few and far between on modern consoles; passed in favor of the greener pastures of more alluring 3D gaming experiences. Someone somewhere must have made it public knowledge that they were still fun, however, because the last couple of years have seen something of a revival take place within the [...]

Mars: War Logs is a highly ambitious indie RPG game by Spiders Studios that seeks to emulate the experience of AAA titles like Fallout and Mass Effect on a small budget, yet its attempt to reach for the stars results in a somewhat mixed experience. Creating a game that plays almost as a combination of [...]

Life can be ugly. You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but it’s worth repeating. Sometimes bad things happen to people who don’t deserve it, and all they can do is survive until they can escape. Papo & Yo is a game about being a child trapped in a violent relationship, allegorized as [...]