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Square Enix shows Two Radically Different Remakes at PAX West 2019
Pop-culture is currently in a state that celebrates remakes and while it can get tiresome I find myself enjoying this type of content. Risks are fewer and remakes have become more and more robust. In games, we’ve seen remakes and remasters many times over with several releases that take the original game and elevates it above and beyond with new technology and gameplay offerings. Capcom knocked it...[Read More]
Bus Simulator Console Edition PAX East 2019 Hands-On
Not long ago, I had the chance to check out Bus Simulator at PAX East 2019 at the Astragon booth. During that time, I had the chance to talk to Chris Rosario about the upcoming 2019 release of Bus Simulator on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While talking about the game, I picked up the PS4 controller that they had set up for the hands-on and started up the demo. I was greeted with a friendly pass...[Read More]
Hands On with Astrologaster at PAX EAST 2019
There is nothing quite like Astrologaster! Coming from developer Nyamyam, Astrologaster is a game based on the real-life Dr. Simon Forman, who couldn’t afford to go to traditional medical school. Dr. Forman decided that he could advise patients using the zodiac as a basis for his reasoning. All he had to do was satisfy the patients with his diagnoses and treatments to keep them coming back and ref...[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.
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.
PAX South 2019: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown VR Hands-On
It’s been almost twelve years since the last numbered Ace Combat game came to consoles. There have been a few spin-offs in the intervening years, but Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is the next official continuation in the series. With the official launch just a couple of weeks away, Bandai brought a big presense to PAX South featuring a set of linked multiplayer consoles, and several PS VR setups. I ...[Read More]
BioMutant PAX West 2017 Hands-On
There were quite a few brand new IPs being presented at PAX West this year, but not many from the bigger studios. Most of them had new titles of their popular IPs, but THQ Nordic had something entirely new at their booth, Biomutant. While I was scheduling my appointments for PAX this trailer came up in my email. . .
HyperX Cloud Alpha Headset PAX West Hands-On
I game and travel—A LOT. I also stream, host events, and (if I can’t sleep) game in bed. So, it’s important to me have a headset that is comfortable, reliable, and produces high quality sound so I can hear everything going on in my games. The HyperX Cloud Alpha Pro Gaming Headset was released at the end of September, but before it was, I got a hands-on—or rather, head-on—preview of it. I can tell ...[Read More]
Monster Hunter World – PAX West 2017 Hands On
For the past few years, Monster Hunter fans have mostly had to make their hunts on the 3DS. They are amazing games and they really push the 3DS to create some of the best titles on the system. I doubt I’m alone in the desire for a new console release of this dinosaur toppling, dragon capturing, weapon crafting grindfest of a franchise. Then Monster Hunter World was announced and it looked like it ...[Read More]
Conarium Hands On at PAX East 2017
PAX East 2017 provided a lot of great chances to see upcoming games from many companies on the show floor. At one of my many appointments, I got to sit down and play the PC game Conarium from Iceberg Interactive. Conarium is a chilling Lovecraft-inspired game, which follows a story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of na...[Read More]
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