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PAX East 2019 Previews with Headup Games
At PAX 2019 we were relaxing from a long day on the hard concrete show floor when we found a cute little party game that was flying under the radar. In the back corner of the Headup Games booth, Fromto’s demo offered a nice place to lounge while allowing players to unleash their creative or chaotic side in a race to the finish. We originally made our way to the Headup Games booth for our app...[Read More]
PAX East 2019: Hands On with Darksburg
At PAX East 2019, we had the opportunity to get hands-on with a relatively unknown indie game, Darksburg. Darksburg is currently in development by Shiro Games and is inspired by games such as Diablo, Left 4 Dead, and various M.O.B.As. Although we only had a short time with the playable demo, the game left us eager to play more. With only a short 30-minute demo to grasp the basics of the game, we ...[Read More]
PAX East 2019: Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled Hands-On Preview
As someone who is an avid fan of racing games, both big and small, getting the opportunity to check out Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled was quite fun. I’ll state now that I’ve never played the Crash Racing series growing up as I mainly owned hand held gaming consoles, plus the PlayStation 1 and original Xbox. Boy, did I miss out! My hands-on time was with the PlayStation 4 version of t...[Read More]
Hands-On With The Caligula Effect: Overdose (PAX South)
When Bowling For Soup sang “High School Never Ends”, they didn’t mean it as an aspirational song. However, in The Caligula Effect Overdose, out now in the United States from NIS America, that’s exactly how a self-aware Virtuadoll interpreted paradise.
NIS America Showcase 2019 and hands-on
This past Friday night, I was invited to NIS America’s showcase of their games for 2019. Let’s take a look at what you could be playing this year. I could try and pitch each game at you, but that’s why the kind people at NIS were able to do with this showcase and announcement video, followed by streamed playing. Not all games in the showcase were available for demo, but there was...[Read More]
World of Horror – PAX South Hands-On
The Ysbryd booth at PAX South this year featured two games: YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG, and World of Horror. Obviously I didn’t need to see the YIIK demo, since I was playing through my review copy at the time, but World of Horror looked like nothing else on the show floor. “How scary can a black and white game be, especially one with an old-school point and click style UI?” The PR rep just smiled at...[Read More]
Hands on with Chocobo Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy
The Final Fantasy series shows no signs of stopping, between its core series, its concepts appearing in the Kingdom Hearts franchise, and of course, the tons of spinoffs. One such spinoff is Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy, a modern console remaster of a Wii title in the series of games starring everyone’s favorite golden bird. We recently got a chance to try the game out before...[Read More]
PAX South 2019 Hands On With Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Making its debut announcement at PAX South this year at the tinyBuild booth was a new game about the trials and tribulations of getting packages to their destinations. Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a ragdoll physics simulation for up to four players and plays like a party game multiplayer version of Crazy Taxi only with packages instead of people.
Fallout 76 Hands-On Preview
During this past week of October 2nd to October 4th, Marooners’ Rock writer Dave Warwick and I were invited to take part in the Fallout 76 Preview event at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. We both happen to live in West Virginia, and as you can guess it was only a short drive to get there, which was a plus. During our time there, both him and I were able to obtain three hours of game-play ti...[Read More]
Destiny 2 The Forsaken First Impressions: So Far So Good
So far I have sunk in a little over 10 hours into the new Forsaken expansion for Bungie’s Destiny 2. The shooter has had it’s struggles over the course of 2017, with many of its player-base leaving after the first expansion, Curse of Osiris. Bungie has gone to great lengths to not only retain those players, but also bring in some new ones as well. They even had Destiny 2 be the free ga...[Read More]
E3 2018 Hands-On: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
They are all returning. That is all I needed to hear to know that this entry in the long-running Super Smash Bros. series would be something special. That feat must not have been easy, and Sakurai and the development team should get a lot of credit for this accomplishment.
E3 2018 Hands-On: MeoGames’ War Clash
At the start of E3, if a member of our community had told us that we would enjoy a mobile RTS game during the convention, we would probably laugh uncomfortably and be very confused. With the exceptions of Pokémon GO, Kingdom Hearts Union X, and Futurama: Game of Drones, I tend to avoid mobile games, especially ones that involve real-time strategy. But thanks to the help of Bailey Meyers from MMPR ...[Read More]