Author: WManns

LIMBO By Playdead Genre: Platforming/exploration “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy enters LIMBO” – honestly, this sparse description given on Steam’s Store Page for this wonderfully understated, creepy game is all you need know of the story when you start playing. To say much more of it would be horribly spoiling what is an...

Two Tribes Games Another independent game studio has released a three-pack of its offerings on Steam, the game delivery service of which I’ve sung praises in the past. The name of this group brings to mind a song by the 80s new wave band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and while they claimed that when two...

Captain America: The First Avenger From Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios Starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Tommy Lee Jones Genre: Superhero-style action Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action Captain America is one of my favorite superheroes; simply patriotic, determined and very able to get the job done. But as we...

Singularity By Raven Software Genre: First-person shooter with Time Control Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language In this game seemingly inspired by BioShock, you play a Marine, Nathan Renko, sent to the Russian island of Katorga-12 on a reconnaissance mission. Back in 1950, strange experiments were run here concerning a newly...

And now it’s time to talk about perhaps the best form of gaming ever: gaming for charity! In 2010, a group of independent game developers banded together with another one, Wolfire Games, to deliver their games in connection with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that defends online rights, as well as Child’s...

Chantelise: A Tale of Two Sisters By EasyGameStation Genre: Japanese Action-RPG From the makers of Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, comes this more traditional action-RPG in the vein of, say, Secret of Mana or even, perhaps, a more primitive form of Final Fantasy XII (the behind the back view definitely lends itself to this). It’s...

Ghostbusters: The Video Game By Terminal Reality and Atari Genre: Third person action/adventure Rating: T for Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language If you’re like me, you have fond memories of that excellent pair of science-fiction-fantasy movies from the late 80s/early 90s, Ghostbusters and its sequel. They saw a ragtag trio of “paranormal investigators” (everyone...

Fallout: New Vegas – Old World Blues article by Wade Manns Yet again Obsidian brings to us another piece of the puzzle that is the Courier’s life in the Mojave Wasteland. This time out the storyline and happenings are far quirkier than you might expect for an installment of Fallout; it seems to draw as...

Travel back in your mind, if you can, to the mid-80s. Travel back to your local mall, and enter the arcade. Crowded, noisy, maybe smoky?  Filled with flashing lights and sounds of primitive audio processors? I am filled with a rush of nostalgia whenever I think of the classic arcade; 20 or more cabinets of...

Splinter Cell series Tom Clancy, the renowned author of political action thriller novels, has carved out quite a little niche for himself in the world of computer gaming, most of his work being distributed by Ubisoft. From Rainbow Six and its many spinoffs (Ghost Recon, Vegas, Raven Shield), tactical first-person shooters; to HAWX and its...