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Hand of Fate 2 Preview
One of last year’s bigger surprises for me was the action/role-playing game Hand of Fate, a unique mixture of card-turning and action-based segments where you could literally change your destiny with just a few simple moves. The game works with a unique concept and rolls with it – literally – as you build up for better cards and eventually become a true player for your adversary to fear.
PAX South 2016 Preview – Western Press
Do you think you’re a quick time event master? Western Press wants to put your skills to the test. While I have fond memories of being quick on the draw in Kirby Super Star on my Super Nintendo, this puts a new twist to the showdown duel mini-game that gets the competitive juices flowing.
PAX Prime 2015: Tumblestone Hands-On Preview
On my way to an appointment, I was stopped by someone with a controller in their hand and they asked if I wanted to try out a quick puzzle game. I turned toward the monitor and the first thing that hit me was a feeling of nostalgia. I see a banner for a game named Tumblestone, but on the screen is something that looks like Tetris Attack. I made this comment out loud and I was told I was right on t...[Read More]
PAX Prime 2015: Celestial Tear Demon’s Revenge Preview
Celestial Tear Demon’s Revenge (CTDR) was one of the few games that stood out to me when I perused through PAX Prime press release emails prior to the convention. I immediately signed up for a media appointment. On Saturday, I made my way through the busy convention to the Indie Minibooth, a smaller offshoot of the Indie Megabooth to play a title that reminded me of the Japanese RPGs I playe...[Read More]
Hob PAX Prime 2015 Hands-On Preview
When I think of Runic Games my mind instantly goes to the Torchlight series and all the great experiences I have had with it. This made me expect to have an appointment for a game in the same vein but I couldn’t have been further off on my expectations. Everything about the booth and on the screen was bright and colorful with a lit up mascot that many people wanted to take a picture with. Enough a...[Read More]
Adr1ft Hands-On
It was time for another appointment at PAX, but this wasn’t anything ordinary. 505 games was shuttling me off-site to a movie theater somewhere in Boston. They were actually giving me the chance to sit back, grab a bucket of popcorn, and see something new. It was time to see Adr1ft in a way I have never seen a game before, on the big screen.
Hands-On with Dragon Fin Soup
Grimm Bros. is back with the highly anticipated game that is over three years in the making, Dragon Fin Soup. I’ve now played Dragon Fin Soup four times and there hasn’t been a single dragon, fin, or any soup to be seen. There is an angry, alcoholic fairy tale heroine named Red Robin, who aggressively makes her way through a tactical, fantasy world.
Hands On with Pit People
It’s that time again! The Behemoth hype train has rolled into the station. In typical, but exciting fashion, I arrive and my appointment to play Game 4 is on an oversized arcade cabinet. Game 4 is the newest untitled game (Now titled Pit People) from The Behemoth and is a turn based strategy game on a hexagonal grid. The open world map uses a fog of war system(clouds) that moves around so that yo...[Read More]
Preview: Cloudbuilt (PC)
For some time I’ve been playing Cloudbuilt. What is Cloudbuilt, you ask? Cloudbuilt is Rising Star’s and Coilworks’ upcoming Steam green-lit title; a link is available at the end of the post. With Cloudbuilt releasing soon, we are here with a hands-on preview of the game. As for my first impressions of the game, I can say it was fun as hell, addicting, and great looking, along wi...[Read More]
PAX Prime 2012: Loadout
I have no qualms about free-to-play games. I am immediately wary of free-to-play games that are supported by micro-transactions, however. When the appointment for Loadout was pitched to me during my PAX planning period, I flat out said, “You do not want me covering a micro-transaction supported free-to-play game. I will not be kind.” I was guilted (like a boss) into taking the appointm...[Read More]
PAX Prime 2012: Rise of the Triad
~ dipstick<enter> badtrip<enter> homerun<enter> There was nothing quite like running around a Rise of the Triad map under the mind-bending influence of Shrooms Mode while swinging Excalibat around with wild abandon. This is what I did at home almost to the exclusion of all else, and this is what I spent half of my computer classes in junior high school doing. The other half of my...[Read More]
PAX Prime 2012: Frost Wars
When someone talks to me about strategy games, my go-to is Civilization. I’ve been playing the Civilization games since, well, Civilization. I will almost always choose a turn-based strategy game over a real-time strategy game, partially because of my upbringing with the aforementioned Civilization. Civilization is always a long-term investment of time, however, and isn’t always really...[Read More]