With its blend of spatially-focused strategy/RPG combat and big-picture team management, Expeditions: Conquistador is a little bit of XCOM, a little bit of Oregon Trail, with some choice-focused story elements thrown in for a twist. It hits several high notes from those prestigious titles, but falls a bit flat in other areas. I can also tell you from personal experience [...]

Memories are a tricky thing, as anyone who has seen Inception can tell you. Change one little thing in a person’s mind, and you can change everything they believe in. Altering the smallest detail can affect the entire world. It’s a promising premise for a game, and Remember Me revolves solely around this idea. No one will ever say that [...]

Resident Evil: Revelations was originally released on the 3DS back in February 2012 before being ported to the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. This may give the impression that this is a spinoff title that can be ignored or skipped.  In fact, it’s quite the opposite.  This is a pretty solid Resident Evil game that may give fans a feeling they have [...]

Attempting to further the idea of using different personas to navigate the initial narrative, Revengeance’s third and final DLC isn’t nearly as compelling as its previous entry, nor does it live up to the stunning gameplay of the main tale. LQ-84i, or as Raiden refers to him, Blade Wolf, is an AI. Ever struggling with freedom and servitude, this DLC explores an [...]

Genre-blending games somehow always manage to strike a chord with me, from Mass Effect to Borderlands to Blood Bowl to Activision’s BattleZone (look it up). So it is with Dungeon Hearts, a very time-sensitive puzzler with an RPG veneer that’s simple to learn, but I’ve had a hard time mastering.

As soon as they step into the blood-soaked boots of the master assassin Daud, The Knife of Dunwall’s protagonist, players will remember what made Dishonored so great. Released a scant half-year ago, Dishonored captured our grimy, murderous hearts with its exciting, innovative gameplay, gorgeous design, and unusual world. This time around, as players control the infamous assassin whose murder of the [...]

Full disclosure: I never played the first Sanctum game. I’ve previously mentioned my affection for genre-blending hybrid concepts, and the Sanctum series seeks to combine tower defense with FPS and a class-based, co-op focus. Without the frame of reference of its predecessor, I couldn’t help doing the compare-and-contrast exercise with Dungeon Defenders, another class-based, co-op, tower defense title that presents [...]

Metro: Last Light feels like its creation was based on a round of hot potato. you can almost picture each member of 4A Games’ development team, in their Kiev offices, eagerly grabbing the potato,  ready to throw on all sorts of fillings (gameplay, story characters), only forced to toss it to another member after a few seconds in fear of burning their hands. [...]

What makes gamers everywhere cringe all at once?  When a video game is created based off a popular movie. Very rarely does this idea ever truly work out, because it always just feels scheme-ish in nature.  It is just another way for a big company to try and make money off the little guy.  You can be as objective as [...]

You have to give the folks over at Ubisoft credit; they took a great game, gave it a new twist and produced something boldly creative and unique. It wasn’t an easy task, especially when you consider that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was vulnerable to becoming yet another FPS clone in the crowded first person shooter genre. Instead, Far Cry 3: Blood [...]