Trails of Cold Steel III & IV: Epic PS5 Arrival in 2024!
On the NIS America Stream, they have announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III / The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is coming to PlayStation 5 in early 2024. For a game that been on the PC and on the Nintendo Switch, no...[Read More]
Reviews
Gunnar Glasses: Fallout Vault 33 Edition Review
I didn’t fully grasp the wide breadth of style and pure ambition from the folks over at GUNNAR who provided us with a pair of their Fallout Vault 33 glasses. Co...[Read More]
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Review (PS5) – Choose Your Date
When you think of Final Fantasy, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of the thirty-plus games in the franchise? Do you think of the massive...[Read More]
Skull and Bones Review
Everyone has been riding this pirate wave since about 2003 with the huge success of Pirates of the Caribbean, a movie that definitely inspired studios to recrea...[Read More]
The COD Alpha and UAV Gunnar Optiks Review
Eyes, they are the windows of the soul as they say. And as it turns out, they are quite fragile. Everything from dirt and debris to The Mountain from Game of Th...[Read More]
QRD Stellar T5 Wireless Joy Pads For Switch Review
The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons are quite divisive controllers. While praised for being two controllers in one, the Joy-Cons have many issues. Its small form facto...[Read More]
World of Horror Review (PC)
How can a horror game with a graphical look pulled straight from a black-and-white 1980s Apple IIe manage to instill fear and dread? In a world of high-fidelity...[Read More]
Features
Dread XP’s Co-Director Hunter Bond Interview
In case you didn’t know, we have had a long-term friendship with the now Co-Director of DreadXP, Hunter Bond. PAX East 2024, marked a new era for Dread XP...[Read More]
Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game PAX East Preview
For almost a decade, games have tried to knock Dead by Daylight off its throne as the king of the asymmetric multiplayer landscape, especially when it comes to ...[Read More]
PAX East 2024: Hands-On Preview with Visions of Mana
Who knew that 2024 was going to be an interesting year for gaming? So many new games were announced! While many were known, no one knew of this new JRPG that ho...[Read More]
Crafting Realms and Revelations: A Conversation with John R. Fultz
John R Fultz has been publishing fantasy novels and short stories for many years now. Always an advocate for embracing the more outlandish aspects of the fantas...[Read More]
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Demo Impressions
Last week, when Sony announced that they would be doing a State of Play for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, I knew it was time to go back and clear Crisis Core Final F...[Read More]
Interview with Sam Haft: Behind the Music of Hazbin Hotel
With the Prime Video soon to release Hazbin Hotel and we here at Marooners’ Rock have got the chance to watch the series’ first couple of episodes. ...[Read More]
Latest Posts
Of the four SEGA Vintage Collection packages, the Alex Kidd & Co. package is the only one that contains non-related titles. The Streets of Rage collection consists of Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and Streets of Rage 3. The Golden Axe collection consists of Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2, and Go...[Read More]
I’ve always been a fan of fantasy style video games, and the Monster World series fits that mold very well. In the SEGA Vintage Collection: Monster World package, SEGA has given us three (arguably) great titles, one of which has long resisted the voyage to our shores from its native Japan. Won...[Read More]
When Ubisoft pushed out PowerUp Heroes last year, I immediately saw it as a shovelware title. There was little promotion in the lead-up to it, and it was just suddenly released at a budget price point. When the title showed up at my door, I gave it a try, and found myself pleasantly surprised. I imm...[Read More]
At last year’s E3, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was one of the highlights of the titles Ubisoft had to offer. To be perfectly fair, most of the titles that Ubisoft had to offer last year were the highlights of what Ubisoft had to offer, but this review is for Ghost Recon: Fut...[Read More]
Two years before Streets of Rage introduced us to adventures atop astonishingly angry avenues and alleyways, Golden Axe brought us side-scrolling beat’em-up action in arcades and on the SEGA Genesis with a wonderfully fantastical presentation. SEGA, realizing that releasing a Streets of Rage V...[Read More]
Ah, Streets of Rage. From the arcade to home consoles, Streets of Rage was always one of my first choice brawlers, along with Final Fight, Double Dragon, and all the rest. I have different memories of each, with each just as fond. The side-scrolling beat’em-up genre is classic, and an essentia...[Read More]
I’m not the biggest MMO fan, so it takes quite a bit to get me to play a game in that genre. A bit ago, I was introduced to one of the more recent MMOs to hit the market, Age of Wushu. Age of Wushu is a new 3D MMORPG centered around martial arts and magic. Some of the recent announcements made...[Read More]
Skyrim’s upcoming expansion package, Dawnguard, has been given a release date. Apparently revealed at E3, this particular piece of information came our way via the Facebook page for The Elder Scrolls. Keep your eyes open for Dawnguard coming to XBLA on June 26th.
