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Review: Watch Dogs 2

It was late one of these weekend nights. I had told myself I was going to get in a decent Watch Dogs 2 session so that I could prep this very review you are currently reading. After about an hour of mucking about, hacking random phone...

Review: Planet Coaster

Roller Coaster 3 was somewhat divisive at the time of its release, but I feel like after seeing what Atari has done to the franchise it's a lot easier to look back on it in a positive light. Now the studio behind RCT3 is back with a...

Review: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare represents the first step of recovery for the beleaguered Infinity Ward, who recently hit rock bottom with their last entry into the long running franchise: Call of Duty: Ghosts, a game that's basically the...

Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

In 1989 Sid Meier famously said "A game is a series of interesting decisions." and then by his own admission at GDC 2012, never thought about it again. But if he wasn't consciously thinking about it, the release of the original...

Review: Titanfall 2

After thumbing through the art book for the original Titanfall I was immediately struck by the volume of content and designs that had been created for the game and never used. It seemed as though a lot of effort had been put into building...

Review: Mafia III

Mafia III starts out with this disclaimer, which I find to be concerning. If we want to have an open, honest examination of the shadow racism casts over American history, the idea that the audience would misinterpret its depiction as...

Review: Karma Incarnation 1

Here I am again taking another look at a point and click adventure title. So many of these have come across my desk lately it's starting to feel like we should just change the site to focus entirely on them. This go around we are looking...

Review: Gears Of War 4

I never thought I'd live to see the day when I was happy to see Marcus Fenix. The Gears of War franchise has a lot of good stuff going for it but outstanding plots and characters are typically an afterthought for the series. Oh sure, we...

Review: Shadow Warrior 2

When the Shadow Warrior remake came out in 2013, it quickly became a favorite of mine. As a fan of arena shooters, I had been starved for a while for good games to play. Wolfenstein the New Order was still months away (plus I didn't even...

Review: Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

When I first saw Masquerada at PAX 2015, my curiosity was immediately piqued. As a former table top RPG player and game master, I could see the mind of one my own at work in the brief memo we played. But it was more than that that kept my...