Carmageddon: Max Damage Stainless Games The year: 1997. What can I say? It was a golden year forever etched in my younger gamer’s data banks. Any of you fellow gamers who were playing video games back then may have remembered it as well, most likely as fondly as I. The console wars were in full…
Dead by Daylight Behaviour Interactive I actually came across Dead by Daylight by accident. As a filmmaker, I was doing some research in order to see if anyone had made any decent horror video games based off of horror films. Not just any horror games, mind you, but ones that were multiplayer based in…
Breached Drama Drifters “That’s it?” I said as I pushed my chair back and away from my gaming PC and literally scratched my head. That was my reaction a few days ago upon completing Breached, a new science fiction game developed by Drama Drifters and published by Nkidu Games Inc. I glanced at the…
Rust Facepunch Studios As I stated in another recent review, I’ve experienced my share of lackluster games as of late. I’ve had time to reflect on this for a while now, and I still can’t seem to wrap my head around what’s at the heart of the issue. On one hand, we seem to be…
The Technomancer Spiders Studio It’s strange—it seems as though lately, I’ve been running into a lot of games that feature really interesting backstories, but fail to pull the trigger when it comes to translating their narratives over into the digital realm. Just a couple of weeks ago, for instance, I reviewed Deep Silver’s Homefront: Revolution,…
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter Frogwares/Bigben Interactive Having recently played and reviewed the dreadful zombie-splattering offering, Capcom’s Umbrella Corps, I hungered for a completely different gaming experience. Something that would wash away all of the virtual goop that I felt I’d been inundated in, after playing such a piece of abject rubbish. A game that…
Umbrella Corps Capcom For the sake of this review, I’m going to do a little role-playing. Let’s just say that I was an indie game developer working out of my garage, and I wanted to make a game. We’ll call this upstart company: Two Cents Interactive, just for the sake of this article. Now, we’re…
Edge of Nowhere Insomniac Games I’m a big fan of weird fiction. What is weird fiction, you ask? Well, it was a genre defying catch-all phrase used to describe literary works that would today be considered horror (supernatural and otherwise), adventure, and even science fiction. In this way it pre-dates all of the cutesy little…
Polaris Sector SoftWarWare/Slitherine I appreciate games pretty much wherever they come from. That is to say, I applaud the amount of work and dedication that foreign game developers put into their projects. That doesn’t always mean I want to play them, however. At present, the vast majority of video games mainly come from either the…
Homefront: The Revolution Deep Silver I’ve always been a big fan of underdogs. Working with minimal resources and/or weapons and going up against superior (usually oppressive) forces utilizing asymmetric tactics is something that is visceral for me. I mean, I must have watched 1984’s Red Dawn about a hundred times (the 2012 retread was poop…