A Plague Tale: Innocence Asobo Studio/Focus Home Interactive One of the first things I did when researching the new stealth-survival title, A Plague Tale: Innocence, was check out the development team that made it. Asobo Studio is an indie French group of developers who in the past, mainly stuck to developing other company’s IPs (mainly…
Conan Exiles Treasures of Turin DLC Funcom My two high-level friends and I had constructed a very large fortress overlooking the oasis in the middle of the central desert, west of the vast Southern Aquaduct. We considered ourselves the rightful rulers of the only patch of water—surrounded by palm trees—in the entire area, and would…
Imperator: Rome Paradox Interactive I’ll have to admit I arrived at the grand strategy party a little late. I’d checked out some of Paradox’s rather granular titles before—games such as Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV, but to me, they looked like too much of a time sink; too dense for their own good.…
Anno 1800 Blue Byte/Ubisoft There seems to be a good variety of city-building and colony management games out on the market right now—at least ones that feature contemporary (Tropico 6, Cities: Skylines) or futuristic (Surviving Mars, They Are Billions) backdrops. Indeed, Ubisoft’s last two Anno games were set in the future as well. However, you…
Total War: Warhammer 2 – The Prophet and the Warlock Creative Assembly/SEGA Like myself, many gamers were a little late to the whole Warhammer Fantasy Battle bandwagon. Personally, I was too preoccupied playing pencil and paper role-playing games as a kid and so didn’t have the time to devote to learning about another IP, especially…
Heat Codehatch Yeah, PC gamers pretty much have it made as far as being able to play games of virtually any genre out there. Even fighting games have found a home on the PC, thanks to fighting game stalwarts Tekken 7, Street Fighter 5, and Dead or Alive 6 (the latter which I never thought…
Europa Universalis IV Paradox Interactive Years ago, a gaming friend of mine who knew I loved strategy games suggested that I give Paradox Interactive’s Crusader Kings II a try. Since Crusader Kings II is the game that coined the nomenclature “grand strategy” back in 2012, I was intrigued as to what all that entailed. I…
