Reviews
Review: The Witness
The Witness is the latest game designed by indie darling developer Jonathan Blow. The game is his second project in almost eight years after the wildly successful Braid helped launch the massive influx of indie games we have today. You...
Review: That Dragon, Cancer
The question of "are video games art" is not a new one in the medium, and there is a very loud group of the gaming media that desperately wants to convince everyone that yes, they are. While I personally believe that games can work as...
Terrible Tuesday: Pony Island
This is a game where you play as a pretty pink pony frolicking in a green field and jumping over fence posts while butterflies try to tickle it. And someone thought to put this on Steam. For money. This is Terrible Tuesday...
Review: OxenFree
80's Teen movies and spooky ghost stories. Oxenfree is basically a Jay-tailored game through and through. You take the reigns of Alex, a girl going through changes. Preparing to transition from middle school to high school, thinking about...
Review: Punch Club
I was going to start off by confessing that fighter managers are my kind of game, but after some thought I have to admit that I can't actually think of another game in the genre other than a minigame in Yakuza 4 (Although the fighter...
Review: Gnomium: Pocket Edition
Now children let me interrupt our currently ongoing game of the year coverage to tell you the story of a little game headed to the app store today called Gnomium. The game is a free to play word based puzzle game, or at least that's what...
Review: Pillars of Eternity
Kickstarter gets a bad rap these days. My own recommendation when it comes to choosing what to back is: don't. Do not back anything. Kickstarted projects have worked hard these past three years to earn this reputation, from people gaming...
Review: Xenoblade Chronicles X
The Xeno series has had a weird history. It began life on the Playstation under Squaresoft with Xenogears, which I think everyone agrees is a classic. Then, the Xeno series was picked up by Namco after Hirohide Sugiura and Tetsuya...
Revisiting Splatoon
Splatoon came out in late May, with what seemed at the time like an inexcusable low number of maps, weapons, and game types with Nintendo promising to add content to the game as the summer went on. While many outlets, reviewing the game in...
