I think it’s safe to say that Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the most anticipated Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games to come out in nearly a decade. When you look at the pedigree, it’s hard to deny that there are a lot of high caliber forces coming together to make this game. Star Wars is one of the most beloved Sci-Fi franchises of all time, Bioware is one of the premiere RPG developers, and Electronic Arts has one of the biggest coin-purses in the video game industry. So with all this expectation and fawning, can the title…
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You’re Kyle Hyde, an ex-cop who never managed to let go of that one final case. Now working as a door-to-door salesman for a small company, your job has you staying in a small crappy hotel in the middle of nowhere in a room that’s rumored to grant the wish of whoever stays there. It looks like it’s going to be a long night at Hotel Dusk: Room 215. The Nintendo DS has had many unique titles come and go during its lifetime, but not many of them reach the level of characterization that Hotel Dusk managed to get down….
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Name one game where you search for a Holy Macguffin with the help of your father’s diary, you fight an evil nemesis, choose sides in war between hippies and frat warriors on a mystical island, eat a Grue, get a sex change in a sleazy back alley, and defeat a naughty sorceress? Only one game has all these features wrapped up in one? For shame. Then again, not every game is as crazy as the Kingdom of Loathing. The Kingdom of Loathing is a web-based (mostly) single-player RPG. One that, unlike most web-based games, does not feature any referal rewards….
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Zombies have been the in thing for awhile now and will continue to be till someone writes a teen novel about a misunderstood girl that falls in love with an equally misunderstood sparkling zombie. We find them in our comics, our movies, and even in our music. Of course with the shambling undead infiltrating every facet of entertainment, video games featuring zombies are a given. Enter Dead Island, the most recent and possibly one of the most ambitious zombie games made to date. Many of you might remember the amazing trailer that popped up for Dead Island earlier this year….
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Perfection is the target: the perfect mate, the perfect game, the perfect body. The idea of perfection is such an absurd notion that it gets diluted and misrepresented on a daily basis. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the story of the length people will go to obtain the mythical perfection. While some people are forced to take prosthetic limbs and organs, known as augmentations or augs in Deus Ex, the debate quickly turns to people who take elective procedures and adopt augmentations by choice. Is it ethical for someone with two perfectly good legs to choose to shed their birthright…
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Time Gentlemen, Please! is a fantastic, hilarious point-and-click adventure game released in 2009 for PC. It’s as indie as indie gets, made almost entirely by two zany Englishmen, Ben Ward and Dan Marshall. Dan is the founder of Size Five Games, formerly known as Zombie-Cow and also handles the programming, while the pair shares writing duties. The two also star as themselves in this game and its predecessor, 2008’s freeware sensation, Ben There, Dan That. Time Gentlemen, crafted with the Adventure Game Studio for almost no budget, is a huge accomplishment, comparable in quality to the classic LucasArts games of the 1990s….
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EA’s newest entry into its Warhammer franchise has been officially announced and they have released a trailer just in time for Gamescom. Titled Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes, this new free to play title is a team-based action and strategy player vs. player title. Three teams of six players will face off to achieve objects and kill their enemies in a fast paced arena style battle. Fans of MMOs will know that Warhammer’s reputation for quality player vs. player gameplay is second to none, so it will be interesting to see what BiowWare Mythic does with this action title. Watch the…
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There is a part of me that wishes Nintendo would just drop the console business all together and start working on their own licensed games for other systems. I want to love Nintendo, I really do, but I just haven’t been interested in anything since the N64. I will say that all the DS hand-held systems have been the object of my desire at some point or another, but for the most part, the price is just far too high. Clearly I am not the only person that disagrees with the price point. After having just ended their fiscal year with…
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I should start by clarifying: Final Fantasy IV (1991, Square) was not the first RPG I ever played, but it was the first one I finished. The first RPG I ever played was its venerable predecessor, the original Final Fantasy (1987). I was so young when I first played it that I barely even remember it. I know that my friends and I couldn’t even beat the first boss, and we had no idea what the phrase “critical hit” was supposed to mean. We barely had third-grade reading levels and concepts much more complicated than “walk to the right and…
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The casual gaming revolution is upon us, they say. Almost every new video game is aimed at those shadowy figures that clamor for Kinect functionality, the WiiU and worst of all, accessible content for the whole family. Last month, you could hear the shrieks of terror reverberating in the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center as the hardcore gamer crowd was dealt a fatal blow at this year’s E3. Though do not fret, dear reader. It won’t be hard to keep them in our thoughts and in our hearts, now and for all time. That is, of course, because…
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