Toy Soldiers: War Chest overcomes a handful of smaller annoyances such as in-game purchases and some painfully irritating sound work, and manages to deliver an engaging mix of strategy and action that is wrapped up an in imaginative, nostalgic package. G.I. Joe. He-Man. I saw these in the recent trailer…
Read MoreThese days I feel bad for zombies. After becoming mainstream along with vampires and werewolves, how many apocalypses have they started and failed by now? They’ve tried to conquer the world in different ways but somehow humanity always seems to bounce back. So what happens when zombies go over 9000?…
Read MoreReview by Chris I. If there’s any question whether the gaming industry has lost some of its forward progression momentum into a viable artistic medium, you can point to the debacle now known as ‘Gamer Gate,’ and the fallout of that across the entire industry. Thankfully, the appropriately named developer,…
Read MorePreview by Pierre-Yves L. I know a few people that have comfort games instead of food for when things aren’t going the greatest. I’m one of them, and I have three: Tales of Vesperia, Torchlight II, and Dungeon Defenders. The latter got me through a relatively hard holiday season a…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Prophour23 may bill itself as a casual Real Time Strategy, but after playing it for a while I can honestly recommend it as one of the best mystery games I’ve played in a while. This is a game where discovery is the key to victory and…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Anomaly 2 is the third tower offence game from 11 bit studios, and it puts players to the test by providing them with very limited resources and requires lots of forward thinking if they are to drive back the aliens that have invaded and already decimated…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Cubemen 2 is one of the finest examples of the tower defence genre. Previously released on iOS and PC, it’s developed into something massive over the months and years courtesy of community-created levels, and now on the Wii U players access all that content in the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of my favourite tower defence games of all time is Cubemen 2. Players create little… cube men, and then set them around a grid-like environment to protect their flag from invading hordes of enemy cube men. But that’s just one mode. There are actually seven…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Going into the wonderful water-coloured world of Cocoro I expected a wonderful and light experience. What I got however was a hardcore, brutally unforgiving experience. Cocoro: Line Defender does a great job of using the two screens of the 3DS. Units are sent from the base…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Anomaly Defenders is the latest and final game in 11 Bit Studios’ franchise that tells the story of a war between a race of aliens and the humans they had sought to control. While the previous games in this series defined a new sub-genre that turned…
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