Press emails are fun. Some are from a generic list and others saw what you said, when you have a mouth as wide as the Armillaria ostoyae, that can be trouble. To quote myself after a very long week of writing, “Previously…
Classic beat ’em ups are a genre that paved the way for modern action games. However, the genre has since fallen into obscurity. With the release and success of TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge last year, it seems faith has been restored in the…
Strayed Lights is the debut title from developer Embers. Released this April, Strayed Lights caught my eye instantly due to its’ art direction. It reminds me a lot of Ori and the Blind Forest another one of my favorite Indie titles. I…
I started following Curse of the Sea Rats around the time the developers began to do marketing for its Kickstarter campaign. I try to keep my ear to the ground for interesting projects, and the animation style and premise of Curse of…
During the height of the Game Boy Advance’s reign as my favorite handheld, the Mega Man Battle Network franchise was a big part of my teenage years. The games traveled with me on trips, I played a variety of them at home,…
One of my most anticipated games this year was FromSoftware’s revival of the Armored Core series. Never having played any of the studio’s other titles or previous Armored Core games, I was interested when I heard it would be a sharp departure…
Epic Games is quite successful with its collaborations with popular IP. In fact, when I was playing zero build Fortnite earlier this week, I was playing as Harley Quinn and was killed with a kinetic blade by John Cena. I mean, what…
Dead Island 2 is a sequel that many liked to jokingly say would never exist. The series has seen a memorable first game, an expansion, and many spin-offs, but the 2014-announced sequel continued to be quietly passed around through multiple development teams.…
Vanillaware is one of the few development teams that I feel consistently gets overlooked for being niche or strange. Granted, every one of their games tends to have some experimental element involved, but they all have great storylines and fantastic visual design.…
How strange it is to be here. I remember sitting in my college dorm, watching E3 conference streams with my roommates, and seeing the initial announcement trailer for Dead Island 2. It was a silly little trailer that left us all interested…