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…
Free to Play Games (F2P) and World of Warcraft (WoW)! article by Wade Manns Since the beginning of the Internet, there have existed free games: download them, play them, no big deal at all. Then came the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, which were quite the opposite: you paid a (usually hefty) fee up front,…
Sam and Max: The Adventure Games By LucasArts, then TellTale Games Genre: Graphical adventure Steve Purcell is a comic artist best known for releasing Sam and Max: Freelance Police in the late 80s. This comic series (and what I’ll be talking about, the games) follows the adventures of a detective dog who works for a…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 By Warner Bros. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson Genre: Magical fantasy Some say it’s the end of an era. It only lasted about ten years, though, so for cinema in general it’s a fairly small time frame, and arguably the literary potential can last indefinitely.…