The Blackout Club Question Many gamers still consider Left 4 Dead 2 to be the absolute pinnacle of team-based, multiplayer, survival horror games. Not surprisingly, Valve’s 2009 hit is still being played today, in no small part due to the modding community that has fully embraced all of its bloody goodness. But while the Left…
Osiris: New Dawn Fenix Fire Entertainment/Reverb Triple XP Back in September of 2016, indie game developer Fenix Fire Entertainment released their new open-world, space survival game titled Osiris: New Dawn. When I first saw the game’s trailer—which involved a band of interstellar colonists being ambushed by some creepy looking aliens in a sandstorm—I was instantly…
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Tyranids DLC Proxy Studios/Slitherine Ever since the venerable Games Workshop eased up the stranglehold on its Warhammer 40,000k universe, there have been a veritable plethora of video game developers who have attempted to create their own digitized takes on it. So far, there have been many serious mishandlings the franchise, such…
Battle Brothers: Beasts & Exploration DLC Overhype Studios Back in March of 2017, a little hidden gem called Battle Brothers burst onto the indie gaming scene. Personally, since I’m not into “cutesy” type graphics or anything that looks too cartoonish, I didn’t really dig the game’s chess piece-like depictions of its various characters and monsters.…
The Long Dark Hinterland Studio There seems to be two separate types of survival games on the market these days—survival horror games which feature crafting, such as 7 Days to Die, The Forest, and Miscreated, and the more “pure survival” type of games, such as Green Hell and The Long Dark. By “pure survival” I…
Insurgency: Sandstorm New World Interactive/Focus Home Interactive Insurgency: Sandstorm recently blazed its way into the shooter genre, and its developers, New World Interactive, have billed it as both a “realistic” and “tactical” type of first-person shooter. In my eyes, this is only partially correct. Let me explain why… Insurgency: Sandstorm’s main draw are its thee…
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus Bulwark Studios/Kasedo Games In recent years, Games Workshop has eased up its stranglehold on its franchises. This has been sometimes good, but usually not very good at all. Various third party entities within the video gaming sphere have flocked to the Warhammer bandwagon like starving seagulls falling upon beached whale carcasses. Amid…
