Many of the finest games focus on two aspects of their design; scoring and entertaining mechanics. Scoring is beautifully pure; doing certain actions rewards the player with points that increase a score. This score is most often either used to gauge the skill of a player or used to give…
Read MoreSurvival horror game Obscure is returning to the gaming world, sort of. The original title actually played and looked a lot like the first few Resident Evil games, just with a ‘teen horror movie’ vibe. Focus Home Interactive and developer Mighty Rocket’s new version of the game keeps the campy…
Read MoreSinister things are happening in Atlantic City. Crime rules the streets. Smoky dives serve home-brewed hooch in china cups. Order is maintained through the swing of a baseball bat. Cops count their money and look the other way. And, behind everything, there’s the sound of the city. There’s despair in…
Read MoreParadox announced an expansion to their popular industrial age Victoria II political sim with Heart of Darkness. The untapped resources of Africa beckon as civilizations collide and empires large and small clash on the global stage in Paradox’ newest. Heart of Darkness takes on and adapts the Scramble for Africa-…
Read MoreCel-shaded, multiplayer shooter Special Forces: Team X is shooting up Xbox Live and the PC this week. Coming out of Microprose (haven’t heard that name in a while) and Blacklight series creators Zombie Studios, Special Forces: Team X is a fast paced shooter with a pretty cool cartoon look. The…
Read MoreEA and Maxis’ SimCity ‘reboot’ is just out of its beta phase on the PC. From the latest batch of screenshots, it looks like the obsession is about to start all over again.The beta only gave players a few days to play around with the revamped and uber-detailed city simulator,…
Read MoreNext in the series of games as art is the somewhat minimalist Proteus recently released on the Steam store. The game can, and must inexorably be compared to Dear Esther. Why Zane would you compare a game against another right off the bat you might ask? To do that is…
Read MoreOld school platform fans take note, PC side-scroller Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is on the way to consoles. It was pretty much already known that Giana Sisters would be coming to the PSN, but the announcement today that the game would also be arriving on Xbox Live (and at retail…
Read MoreWith a little over $200k USD pledged, American McGee’s Akaneiro: Demon Hunters will indeed see a debut on the PC – and then some. The free to play action/RPG will be getting ‘crafting’, co-op play, Linux support, and iOS and Android editions thanks to reaching the lofty sum of $204,680…
Read MoreThough the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre traces its roots right back to 2003’s Defence of the Ancients Warcraft III custom map, it’s fair to say the genre really took off in 2009 with League of Legends. Given that the genre has only had a unique identity for the…
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