Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair Sandlot “Aaaaaaargh!” My gaming buddy cried out as his hunter went down. He was being overly-dramatic in order to fit in with the over-the-top situation of being surrounded by, and then being gnawed upon on by, legions of giant ants from outer space. He was playing…
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round Team Ninja I’ve been playing the Dead or Alive series since way back in 1996, when its first incarnation graced me and my gaming buddies. Well, graced might not be the word in retrospect, since the graphics were pretty rough looking. Since then, each new version of Dead or…
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,…
