Review by Clark A. Touhou is a franchise known chiefly for its genre-defining bullet-hell insanity. Team Shanghai Alice’s wholehearted embracement of fan-made games (“doujin” more accurately), though, has led to a bustling, open-ended franchise where creativity is bread and butter. Its characters have gone on to star in everything from…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. In NBA 2k17, the action is smoother than ever and there are so many different modes, options and sliders that almost anyone should be able to pick up this latest release in the popular franchise and enjoy themselves. Admittedly 2K Sports has had the best NBA…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. Smack-bang in the middle of my all-female protagonist month I was introduced to ReCore. I knew little about the game coming in past the basics: it’s an Xbox exclusive published by Microsoft Studios and developed by a Japanese studio (Comcept), it’s set on a distant planet,…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. It’s been a while since I last played a full live action game. That was Hysteria Project as a PlayStation mini on the PSP back in 2010 it too was a horror game. For whatever reason developers like to experiment with live action in horror –…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I think we all chalked Dragon Quest Builders up as a fairly cynical project by Square Enix, where it looked at the success of Minecraft and then decided to try and get a piece of that pie. Before actually sitting down to play the game, that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Mount & Blade Warband is the most odd “re-release” of all games that we’ve seen on the PlayStation 4 to date. It was originally a PC exclusive, released back in 2010, and this is the first time it has had a console release. Why we have…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. I must admit I started to lose interest in the Gears of War games after the third, but I was excited to see where the game would go under a new development team in The Coalition. The good news is that the new development team has…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. How does one improve upon near perfection? After all, the first Pac-Man Championship Edition took the basic concept of Pac-Man, turned it on its head, and made something truly special. The mere thought of releasing a sequel to that can feel almost comical considering that the…
Read MoreReview by Matthew C. If you go into Virginia expecting a crime drama, you’re going to be disappointed. Yes, it’s centred on a pair of of FBI agents looking into the strange disappearance of a young child, but that’s really just a frame for the far more interesting story at…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. With a creative theme, a charming story and a nice mesh of 2D roguelite and action elements, Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found is a really solid indie title that is a lot of fun despite a handful of smaller, easily-forgiven flaws. First, the handful of…
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