Reviews

Minecraft has been a global phenomenon over the past half decade, but no one has truly tried to do something new with that formula. Many games have tried to clone it, but a different spin on the world-building genre hasn’t been attempted until now. LEGO Worlds is another Travelers Tales game that uses the usual mix of macros for building …

While prior Mafia games set you into early parts of the 20th century, Mafia III begins with an iconic hit of the game’s era – “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix, telling you right away that this won’t be just another typical mafia tale. We’re told of our protagonist Lincoln Clay’s past – being abandoned as a child and …

There’s an odd joy to playing games like The Sims. Perhaps it’s a joy not everyone appreciates, and perhaps it’s a joy that’s not the same for everyone. I mean what’s fun about watching little made up people go about their day, live and then die, when you could do that in real life? The whole point of video games …

DICE has been changing the first person shooter genre for over a decade with the Battlefield franchise. It went from being a relatively unknown series to one of gaming’s most valuable properties and gone from a World War II shooter to something with modern-day trappings, to even a cops vs. robbers motif. Now, Battlefield 1 takes things back to War …

My favourite game of all time is a title that has changed hands more than once throughout my life. It’s a list of games populated with all the regular cliches. Final Fantasy 7 is often at the top, for instance, though sometimes I’ll say Final Fantasy 4 when I’m feeling like a hipster. I love strong storytelling in games, and …

In the almost three years since the Xbox One’s release, the console has seen many ups and downs. The original Kinect requirement alienated many, and when it was dropped as a mandate from the versions being sold, sales skyrocketed. Since then, a great many bundles have been released offering up more value for the money and increasing consumer demand for …

  Back when PT, the famed stealth-demo for Silent Hills, came out the internet was lit ablaze. When Silent Hills was cancelled, the internet was equally invigorated, but for all new reasons. PT had gotten everyone’s hopes up and that small taste of what never came to be inspired several other development teams to make their own similar games. Among …

  Hawken is an online only first person shooter that places players in the cockpit of their very own mech for competitive and cooperative multiplayer. Whereas titles like Titanfall allow the player to go around on foot, Hawken doesn’t give you the option to bailout. Here you live and die entirely in your two-legged tank. Setting Hawken further aside from …

I never really liked the original Half Life. Sure I enjoyed the mods, and the whole multiplayer community surrounding it, but I could never beat the campaign without cheats. It was all the platforming levels. Trying to make precision jumps on small platforms that one could easily miss and fall to their death is really hard when you can’t see …

For as many console generations as I can remember, console wars have been waged for sales dominance, with first and second party exclusive games as their soldiers and weapons on the battlefield. There was a time when Mario would go head to head with Sonic, a time when Sega did what Nintendont. Though the players in the conflict have changed …