There’s no shortage of awesome new experiences for fans of the Halo franchise in 2021 with Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode making a surprise-free appearance earlier this month. Yet, somehow, we ended up spending our Monday night playing Halo Wars, a spin-off game from over a decade ago. 2009 was a fantastic year for video games. It brought us Batman …
Go on…Retro review: Halo Wars’ co-op campaign is still a blast in 2021
I’m pretty excited for the upcoming WWE 2K22 game and for good reason: there wasn’t a WWE 2K21. The last game in the franchise was WWE 2K20. It was so poorly received that Visual Concepts and 2K decided to take a year off and reassess things. It wasn’t that bad Realistically, 2K20 was a good …
Go on…2K finally drops a decent trailer for WWE 2K22 – it looks like a great ‘date night’ game
Oh snap! World of Darkness (the Paradox-owned company responsible for the bloodbath of intrigue that is Vampire the Masquerade) is getting official Nexus support from Demiplane. Are you not entertained? This is brilliant news. First off, any TTRPG in 2022 that doesn’t have a digital presence is missing out on a consumer zeitgeist of Stranger …
Go on…World of Darkness is getting an official digital toolset and it’s about damn time
Empire of Sin, will see its first paid expansion, Make it Count, on November 18, alongside the free Precinct update. If you aren’t familiar, Empire of Sin is Romero Games’ turn-based tactical RPG set in Chicago’s roaring ’20s prohibition era. Your job is to run a complex, illegal empire producing and selling booze, running speakeasies, …
Go on…Just when I thought I was out: Empire of Sin to launch first paid expansion
Pandemics suck. Not that anyone was disputing that before COVID 19, but the last 20 months have been like choosing “nightmare” difficulty mode for real life. Oh you have a job and people you care about and personal things going on? Let’s throw in a literal plague to add some extra challenge. …
Go on…Surviving the Aftermath helped me cope with depression – now it’s leaving early access
Mark Burg and Oren Koules, the founders of Twisted Pictures, recently let slip that at least one new Saw video game was in the works. File this under: Definitely not a rumor. If anyone would know what’s happening in the Saw world it’s the two folks who founded the company that’s produced all nine current and at least one …
Go on…Twisted Pictures: There’s a 100% chance new Saw video games are coming
One of the most absurd discourses I’ve seen is folks debating the legitimacy of one another’s “gamer” status. What does or does not constitute a gamer? It’s super-duper simple. If you play games and want to call yourself a gamer, you’re a gamer. What games count as official gamer games? Is it a game? Then …
So, by now, anyone who follows gaming news has figured out that Back 4 Blood isn’t exactly blowing away fans of Turtle Rock’s previous outing Left 4 Dead 2. In fact, as Kotaku reported over the weekend, there were more players on Steam playing the latter than the former. Now, that’s not to say B4B is a bad game. It’s just …