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It was recently announced that Renegade Game Studio would be rolling out a Scott Pilgrim deck-building game, which made us all kinds of excited as fans of

Throughout my time on this earth I've taken a few electronics courses and discovered something about myself: I hate working with circuitry. I understand

Long ago, back in the late 1980's, there was a pretty cool series known as Wonder Boy that existed on several platforms for the company. The series had a

Over the past couple years it's been really cool to see indie studios rise up with original titles and start to dominate the market. How many sequels and

My childhood has never been "ruined." People have taken old properties that I love and screwed them up royally, but no one actively went back and time and

Telltale Games' series are always more like playable movies, or comics, than actual games. That formula hasn't changed much with Guaridans of the Galaxy:

Beamdog's Enhanced Edition of the timeless classic Planescape: Torment is exactly what it says on the tin. This is the Planescape you know, just with

Milestone S.r.l. and Square Enix's Ride 2 was not a game I expected to actually enjoy. The first reason for that being - it's a racer by Milestone and

I've enjoyed the new wave of party games that have been coming out over the past couple years. Get together with friends, get drunk, throw on a game and

I'm down for a good jump-scare game when they're done right—it's a nice adrenaline rush that gets addictive after a while, and all you're doing is giving

I usually don't expect much from top-down shooters, but considering how much effort people put into indie titles these days, I'd at least like a little

We've gone over some of our favorite Dungeons & Dragons books this week, but today is the day we've been ramping up for, and that's the release of

Now that the Nintendo Switch has been out for a month and everyone has either conquered or decided to live in Hyrule, this is the time for the system to

  I have not played a baseball game in like ten years, but after the playoffs and World Series last year, I fell in love with baseball all over

Six years ago we got the game Bulletstorm, a fine first-person shooter that had a decent story and some cool mechanics behind it. But because the game's

It takes a lot to make me super paranoid about what I'm doing in a game. Not scared paranoid but super tense paranoid. That idea of not being able to

Moving forward with more reviews of previously released books in Fifth Edition, we're going to be hitting some of the bigger titles before Tales From The

Continuing our reviews of books previously released for Fifth Edition before we get Tales From The Yawning Portal on April 7, we're moving right along to

Side-scrolling games are a lost art these days. Everyone is so into being able to fly and fire in any direction possible that there's something lost in

It's kind of an interesting challenge to review a game that everyone and their mother have already taken a crack at before you ever downloaded it. I mean,

At the end of this week, we'll be getting a brand new book from Dungeons & Dragons called Tales From The Yawning Portal. In preparation for it, we're

You don't get a lot of games about people diving in the sea collecting samples. That's about as good of an intro as I could muster for this one because

Yes, I know, the facial animations are their own sort of hell, but despite that and numerous bugs, Mass Effect: Andromeda is still a pretty good game.

The Foregone Syndicate and Adult Swim Games have combined their efforts to give us DESYNC, a first person action shooter with incredibly awesome art

I got a chance to test out the Vertex gaming glasses from Gunnar Optiks for the last few weeks. I've got to admit, cutting out some of the blue-glare from

Educational games are a necessity, I don't care who you are or what you believe in for education. You can trick kids into learning by making it a game,

Nostalgia is a funny thing. We like to look back on the good 'ol days with a fondness, but we tend to iron out all the bad shit. I recently remembered

When I get a game that has a unique and colorful style to it, I tend to get a little more excited about playing it. Especially when it's a platformer

I love Slap Shot! It's a gritty film that shows in a comical sense what it was like in the minor leagues during the '60s and '70s of hockey, and it

I'm old enough to remember the days when Mario was just a referee in sports. He didn't care for the competition, he was just around to tell you that your