AVerMedia Unveils New Live Gamer 4K UHD Line
Looking for a new capture solution? AverMedia has your back, with their newly introduced Live Gamer 4K UHD series of capture cards. With a line that includes both internal and external cards, there’s something for every computer user.
Atari VCS Arrives on Indiegogo
The pre-E3 announcement that everyone has been waiting for is finally here. No, not Fallout 76. The Atari VCS pre-order is live, and with it, the official specifications and pricing.
Airships: Conquer the Skies – Steam Early Access Preview
It’s difficult to define what genre Airships: Conquer the Skies fits into. It’s a side-profile view game of tactical combat at its core, with a strategic level of shipbuilding, and fleet customization on top. It’s graphically old school, a pixel-based labor of love built largely by a single developer for the past five years.
Legends of Aria – Open World MMORPG Preview
You know a game developer has an interesting sense of humor when they lead off their meeting invitation emails with a meme. That’s a bold move (Cotton), and they’d better be able to deliver. Fortunately, Legends of Aria has a lot to be proud of, and looks poised to carve a sustainable niche in the MMORPG market.
Runner3 PAX East Preview
It’s been nearly five years since Bit.Trip Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien returned the unique rhythm platforming action of CommanderVideo to screens around the globe. Since then, the development studio has changed its name from Gaijin Games to Choice Provisions Inc., and branched out into a series of casual games, mostly developed under the MiniVisions label. But the wait is almo...[Read More]
City of the Shroud PAX Preview
When I sat down for my demo of City of the Shroud, I really didn’t know what to expect. As an isometric RPG, it’s poised to take a position in the ranks of classically-styled RPG games that have begun coming out in the past few years. Beginning with Pillars of Eternity, the genre has been experiencing a renaissance in the past few years; a pretty amazing turn around for a game style that was decla...[Read More]
YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG Impressions from PAX East
Y2K. For a time in 1999, these three characters could strike dread into the hearts of millions, possibly billions of people. Banking computers would forget their data. Air traffic control would go dark. Electric grids would fail! It was a doomsday scenario that everyone was going to live through, because the one that can never, ever be stopped is the inexorable march of time. Now Ysbryd Games is b...[Read More]
I Hate Running Backwards PAX East Preview
Take a cast of characters culled from some of the all-time classic, old-school difficulty action games. Throw them into a vertically scrolling bullet hell. Make them progress by doing the one thing that’s totally counterintuitive in normal SHMUPS: run backwards. That’s the formula for I Hate Running Backwards, and it works shockingly well.
We Previewed Last Encounter at PAX East, Now The Game is Available on Steam
Available today for everyone on Steam, Last Encounter is a top-down, twin-stick shooter with heavy weapon customization and a few roguelike influences. I got a chance to go hands-on with the game this year at PAX East, and garner a few impressions ahead of today’s PC launch.
Above – A PAX East Preview
Only on the show floor for two of the four days of PAX East this year, it would have been easy to miss Above, tucked into its corner of the Indie Megabooth. I’m glad I didn’t do that. This whimsical, top-down story of aviation, adventure, and exploration captured my imagination to become a game I’ll be eagerly awaiting in 2019.
PAX Preview: Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex
It’s rare to encounter a game equally capable of coaxing smiles from middle-aged writers as it is from the four-year-old daughters of said writers, However, that’s exactly what Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex manages to do. I encountered this charmingly minimalist game at PAX East, and am eagerly awaiting its full release so that I can play it at home with my daughter.
NITE Team 4 PAX East Preview
Perhaps the most unique game I had the chance to check out at this year’s PAX East was NITE Team 4, a story-based hacking game from independent developer Alice & Smith. An offshoot from their persistent world ARG The Black Watchmen, NITE Team 4, focuses on electronic surveillance, information gathering, and target penetration. In other words, players become hackers, going after targets b...[Read More]