I woke up this morning to find I had some new items in my Steam inventory, which is always an exciting thing. Opening it up, I saw that I had a coupon for a “match 3″ style puzzle/RPG called Dungeon Hearts. I’m not sure how it got there, but for a second I thought that Cube Roots (the developers of the game) had stumbled upon my Cheap and Dirty series and were trying to bribe me in order to get [...]
Starbreeze has made some of my most memorable and atmospheric first person shooter moments of the last decade (Riddick, The Darkness, Syndicate). It has something a bit different in store for its next game, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Brothers is a single player co-op experience where you will be controlling both characters at once. When using a gamepad that means one brother for the left thumbstick and trigger and one brother for the right thumbstick and trigger. Brothers [...]
Just in case you were worried about Charlie Murder, Ska Studios has just checked in with an overview video and let’s just say the game is a bit more ambitious than the sneak peek we got back at PAX ’11. Chuck (can I call you Chuck?) and his crew have evolved into a “BrawlPG” complete with character classes, tattoo upgrades, and Anar-chi all within a punk rock world. Charlie Murder does not have a set release date yet, but the [...]
Trying to get classic PC games to play on modern hardware has gotten easier thanks to rereleases on digital stores, but that doesn’t mean every game has made the leap. Thankfully we can scratch one more off only-playable-by-hackers list as Night Dive Studios fought through the red tape to give the world a fresh release of System Shock 2. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an interview with GOG.com on how this release negotiating the licensing nightmare to make this cult-hit available [...]
To me, Skyrim is like a buffet that I have to continually step away from for fear of over indulging to the point of illness. As great as it is, a man can not live on bread and Skyrim alone, especially a man who has to maintain a high level of gaming diversity in order to feel “caught up.” That being said, I tend to sneak back to the digital feeding trough that is The Elder Scrolls V whenever something [...]
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch‘s title might be a little off-putting at first, but once you lay your eyes on the beauty contained within, the title doesn’t really matter…but expecting a great game based on great looks has led many to go down a dark path. Fortunately for Level-5, it looks like its latest release combines a great look with a great everything else. Full disclosure: I have only played the time-limited demo that was released in [...]
People apparently love their isometric RPG’s because Obsidian just reset the Kickstarter records in raising $3.98 million for its upcoming Project Eternity. Inspired by the likes of Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment, Project Eternity promises a rich world for questing and real-time tactical party combat with a pause system. Obsidian’s pedigree cannot be denied with team members responsible for creating the aforementioned Icewind Dale series and Planescape: Torment, and, oh yeah, the original Fallout and Fallout 2. Project Eternity [...]
With December 21, 2012 looming I must be subconsciously trying to branch out. In recent weeks I gave Torchlight II a try with friends and family, and I felt like a complete noob. I don’t typically get into point and click, hack and slash dungeon crawlers like Torchlight. Somehow I got sucked up into all the hype around the game and made the Steam purchase on my PC. I don’t know what the deciding factor was. I didn’t put many hours into Torchlight before, but something [...]
Krater is a quirky little tactical RPG mismatch that I can happily say I quite enjoyed. Despite this, it had some flaws, but Fatshark, the team behind the game, has kept itself busy fixing and patching things since the game released. On October 23rd, fans of the post-apocalyptic Swedish adventure will get one of the bigger updates to date as co-op support and a number of other improvements will be released for the game. I realize Krater flew under a [...]
During my search for excuses to finally cave and buy a 3DS, Code of Princess was thrown in my face. However, I never bothered to clarify whether or not it as passed to me as a joke or not. Three judgmental strikes of 1) The game having princess in the title, 2) having a half-naked female hero as the prominent portion of the cover art, 3) the screenshots mistakenly giving me the impression that it was just a fighting game, [...]
