In Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, we have a game that manages to hone in on what worked the first time around, improve upon the formula and do something that the shooting genre absolutely needs: injecting a simple sense of fun into the whole experience. Honestly, I never really…
Read MoreBlockbuster season is basically over now that the end of the year is upon us. One of the last big titles to sneak in this calendar year was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, which puts a much higher emphasis on tactics and team play than most shooters do. The formula…
Read MoreEarlier this week, I had the opportunity to try Ghost in the Shell: First Assault – Stand Alone Complex Online before its early access release in a press demo version. As you can tell by the title the game is based on the crazy-popular Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone…
Read MoreOkay, try to imagine yourself in Primal Carnage: Extinction. You get your first look at this “six-foot turkey” as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird (kind of); lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still in the cover of a bush because you think that hopefully his…
Read MoreThere have been no shortage of remakes, remasters, and HD thingamabobs since the newest generation of consoles released, and it was only a matter of time until the original Gears of War got the updated treatment. Of the titles that deserved an Ultimate Edition of this nature from the last…
Read MoreLe sigh. Square Enix is a truly awesome publisher and is really getting its groove back after some really odd experiments through the later PS2/ early PS3 era. After all, in just the last two years, amongst a dozen other projects, Square Enix brought us Life is Strange and had…
Read MoreI wasn’t sold on Splatoon at first. I had no love of the modern children’s cartoon aesthetic that I saw in trailers and video, and while I did appreciate that Nintendo was looking to get involved in the shooter genre in a more family friendly, bloodless, and original way, I…
Read MoreDirty Bomb is a fresh take on the FPS genre, despite a name suggesting something very generic. It’s a bit of a throwback to faster paced shooters such as Team Fortress and Quake but it also has an much greater focus on teamwork that many other, similar games. Visually the…
Read MoreReview by Max S. I have to start this review with an admission: I have not played enough of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. I haven’t tried out all the modes; I am so bad at the game that I still feel uncomfortably venturing past the beginner’s mode Welcome Mat.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the most popular free-to-play games going around at the moment is World of Tanks. It was ultra-popular when it launched on PC some time ago, and the recent port to the Xbox 360 has proven to be a success as well. There’s good reason…
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