The Evil Within Tango Gameworks After recently playing the little indie survival-horror gem Outlast, I wondered why there was such a lack of really scary games out there for the gaming PC community. Sure, Alien: Isolation as well as the… Read More »The Evil Within – Does it Deliver the Survival-Horror Goods?
Payday 2 Overkill Software It wasn’t exactly supposed to be a smash and grab routine, such as the one we’d pulled off at those mall jewelry stores. This was a more planned and calculated come-up. We’d been tipped off that… Read More »Payday 2 – This Vault is Packed
Dead Space 3 Visceral Games My comrade and I, me a lowly space engineer and he a soldier, floated through the cold vacuum of space while gaping wide-eyed at the beautiful iridescent glow of the nearby planet. We’d originally entered… Read More »Dead Space 3 – Plenty Heard Us Scream
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. It must be made clear from the beginning that I am a big time Tolkein-phile. I’ve read all of his works (except for the upcoming 100 year old never before published The Story… Read More »Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor — 4k Gaming at its Best?
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm Tripwire Interactive The staccato of automatic weapons firing cut into the Sergeant’s gruff yelling of orders. Pieces of debris blown off of the group of boulders that our five-man squad was hunkered down behind flew… Read More »Rising Storm — A Unique Spin on a Tired Genre
Metro 2033: Redux 4A Games The video gaming industry is in a state of flux. On the one hand, the gaming community (especially the gaming PC crowd) have been treated to graphics that we couldn’t have imagined possible a few… Read More »Metro 2033: Redux — A Delightful Little Surprise
Wasteland 2 InXile Entertainment Wasteland 2 is the official sequel to 1998’s venerated cult classic, Wasteland. It’s an attempt to combine old school story-driven PC gaming with today’s more updated graphics and combat mechanics. To those ends, it succeeds. Wasteland… Read More »Wasteland 2 – Out on the Fringes with some Old School-Style Goodness
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Ubisoft Studios We were hunkered down in the bush; our four-man team had been dropped off clandestinely from a helicopter hours earlier. As I looked on at the largely arid landscape, with patches of… Read More »Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – Stealth Action Redefined
Ultimate Apocalypse – The Hunt Begins (A Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Mod) Ultimate Apocalypse Mod team Relic Entertainment My front lines were holding against the undulating masses of grotesque aliens that were trying to overwhelm me with their sheer numbers. I… Read More »Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins – is Where the Hunt Ends for an Epic RTS
Call to Arms Digitalmindsoft Ever since the great Spielberg film, Saving Private Ryan, different forms of media, including the game industry, have taken advantage of the popularity a World War II story-line brings to the table. The Medal of Honor series… Read More »Call to Arms – Calling All Armchair Generals!