Interview by Matt S. Rod Humble has had an interesting path to Cults & Daggers and his startup developer Chaphat. Formerly the CEO of Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, Humble’s role behind that was the head of the EA Play label… the creators of The Sims. So it…
Read More“Oh my, this game is going to be controversial.” These were my thoughts almost immediately after I started playing Criminal Girls: Invite Only (I may or may not be paraphrasing my thoughts to remove expletives there). And after reading the first batch of reviews I guessed correctly – already there…
Read MoreReview by Shaan J. In the grand scheme of things, I haven’t really been (seriously) playing video games for that long (I only started taking video games seriously around 10 years or so ago), and I’ve spent even less time writing about them. Still, I’ve always had this weird, hard…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The original Gunman Clive was a perfectly workable old-school platformer. It was ultimately a throwaway game, with very limited replay value beyond perfect runs and speed runs for the diehards, but it was a challenging, clean game that played to its strengths without any pretensions on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Too many modern strategy games are focused on the World Wars or, if we’re lucky, a couple of centuries previous to that, such as the Napoleonic era. Occasionally we get a big leap backwards in time to ancient wars, but that’s becoming a rare event. How…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Heroes of Might & Magic III HD is not a game I believe many people were asking for, yet it is such an amazingly well-balanced tactical experience that it should be appreciated by people who missed their chance in the past. There are newer iterations in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Life Is Strange makes me hate episodic games. When the opening chapter of a game is this utterly engrossing, to complete it after a solid five hours of continuous play, only to be told “well, you get to wait two months to see the story continue,”…
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