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…
Hitman 2 IO Interactive/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment Back in 2016, when IO Interactive brought the Hitman series back into the spotlight with their episodic releases, simply titled “Hitman,” many wondered if it could still garner attention. IO proved that not only did the murder-for-hire simulator still have quite a bit of life left in it…
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 CI Games Stealth-based games are going through somewhat of a difficult time right now, particularly ones featuring any sort of tactical elements. Take for instance one of main flag bearers of the tactical stealth-action genre, Ubisoft’s various Splinter Cells games. These games were the epitome of putting the player into situations…
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 CI Games Tactical shooters and stealth action games have a long and storied past within the video gaming realm. I remember playing a vast multitude of the arcade-y types of pixilated Japanese shooting games, in local arcades back in the day, and lost many a quarter to them. Although I did…
Hitman: Episode 4 – Bangkok IO Interactive/Square Enix Cutting edge developer IO Interactive and their intrepid publisher Square Enix recently released the forth chapter in the new Hitman reboot—and frankly, I’ve been looking forward to where they were going next with the series. I say series, not in the traditional sense of the word as…
Hitman: Episode 3 – Marrakesh review IO Interactive My fingers gripped my gaming mouse tightly and I could already feel some tension in my neck. I was frustrated—or rather, Hitman: Episode 3 – Marrakesh had managed to get me pretty stymied. Everywhere I steered the tall, muscular, totally standing-out Anglo assassin, Mr. Agent 47, I…
Hitman Episode 2: Sapienza Io Interactive After I reviewed the first Hitman episode back in April, many of my fellow gamers out there seemed a little confused as to where the whole series was going. Many of my readers asked me about Io Interactive’s new structure and scale as far as the series was concerned,…