Review: Far Cry Primal

I wasn't majorly adverse to the idea of an upper paleolithic age Far Cry like so many others had been. Though the idea we were trading out modern civil wars with local power hungry dictators for battles against mammoths using stick and...

Review: The Division

The populace of New York City has been taken out by a terrible man engineered disease tagged with the name "The Dollar Bill Virus." The city is in a state of crisis, its nearby neighbors are in a condition of martial law, and it's up for a...

Review in Progress: The Division (Day 5 Highway to the Dark Zone)

The Division Day 5 So I finally took my first steps into the Dark Zone, and it seems my worst fears about the place have taken hold. In the beta, it was a high risk, high reward location where you could never be too sure if you could...

Review: Just Cause 3

There I was standing at the top of a sheer cliff overlooking the deep verdant valleys and cerulean waters of a warm European paradise that hid something sinister beneath her lavish hotels and old world architecture. I spread my arms and...

Review: Downfall

In 2013 I was given Screen 7's The Cat Lady to review and I went in with low expectations, but what I got actually turned out to be a gripping title whose deep, disturbed themes, engaging puzzles and surprisingly warm human drama really...

Review: Street Fighter V

Street Fighter V is a game that should have been delayed and released when it was actually finished. As it stands now the title sits in an unfinished state that completely undermines what Capcom was trying to do with it. To properly...

Review: SUPERHOT

We have been following SUPERHOT for quite awhile now. From its humble beginnings in the 7DFPS Game Jam, to its wildly successful Kickstarter, and even a full fledged interview with the team's former community manager Luke Spierewka, the...

Review: XCOM 2

When 2K Entertainment bought the rights for XCOM in the height of the 7th generation, they had one real plan: To make it into a cover based shooter with a twist like so many others that dominated the market after the commercial successes...

Review: Calendula

I suppose our boss Jared thought I was on a meta puzzle game roll so he went ahead and popped this one on me. Calendula describes itself as a "game that doesn't want to be played", but then when the challenge of the game is just getting it...

Review: Firewatch

I'm trudging through the wilderness. Some heavy shit has gone down and as a somber musical cue settles in I know that I'm very near to my final moments in the Wyoming wilderness. And then I snag on a rock and can't move. Quit to desktop....