Brave Tank Hero is a distressing affair. On one hand, arena-based tank combat games ought to be explored on consoles and Natsume deserves serious props for publishing one at all. On the other, this game is the embodiment of everything that could possibly go wrong with the untapped subgenre. Related…
Read MoreThe Warriors games have their critics for the rapid rate in which they release. In that way, it is similar to the treatment a lot of sports titles get with the annual releases. “More of the same” is something I hear far too often when people talk about the Warriors…
Read MoreRavenmark: Scourge of Estellion is an old school turn-based tactics game from Singaporean developer Witching Hour Studios, originally released for iOS and now ported to Steam. With its well-designed gameplay, expansive story and high production values, Ravenmark is a game with a lot to offer which I would readily recommend…
Read MoreHidden object games are a dime a dozen, and I have most definitely played dozens. They range from great (I am a big fan of Mystery Case Files on PC/Mac) to mediocre (namely, the G5 iPad games) to downright terrible. Ferrum’s Secrets: Where is Grandpa? falls in that final category. The…
Read MoreEtrian Mystery Dungeon is an appalling Etrian Odyssey game. We will get into why that is the case in a moment. And, more importantly, why that doesn’t actually matter, but to be straight up it needs to be said that this game offers very little of what people actually love…
Read MoreIt can be tough to build a sports game on a budget. Complex and unwieldy messes of physics and strategy as they are, building a sports game requires a development team to have an engine that is able to respond realistically to more variables than perhaps any other genre. It…
Read MoreLast year’s NHL 15 was a disappointmen as fans got their first taste of the franchise on current gen systems. The play on the ice was actually quite solid, though overly aggressive hitting and some oddities in player movement helped to break the immersion. However, releasing stripped of most of…
Read MoreSOMA succeeds in creating a tense atmosphere, as you would expect from the development team behind the original Amnesia. The suspense does not always hold up as well as I would have liked, but by and large the team at Frictional Games has proven yet again that they know how…
Read MoreTribute Games is one of those developers that can reinvent the mundane on a whim. One of its earliest efforts, Wizorb, appeared to be another clone of the classic Breakout arcade game, but injected peculiar JRPG elements to craft arguably the most inspired spin on the formula out there. Tribute’s…
Read MoreIn this day and age a lot of things try to be fast paced in order to fit with the tastes of the easily distracted. But how do you make something fast paced? Through the speed of gameplay? Giving players a ticking clock to keep their pulses beating as they…
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