PAX East
PAX East 2023 4-Day Badge Giveaway
Hello everyone! As many of you know aware from covering games at PAX events to even giving our viewers a chance at some badges, we’ve teamed up with PAX to give some of our readers a chance to head to one of the PAX events. Over the years, we’ve had PAX Online events along with the most recent PAX East 2022 and PAX West 2022. Some of us here at Marooners’ Rock ventured out after not being ab...[Read More]
WWI Shooter and PAX East Gem Isonzo Releases This September
This coming Fall, players across consoles and PC will be digging into the trenches of World War I. Developer Blackmill Games and M2H have announced a release date for Isonzo, their highly ambitious World War I shooter. On September 13, 2022, Isonzo finally arrives, sending players onto the mountainous battlefields of the Italian Alps. Marooners Rock member Matt Kowalski wrote a preview of his time...[Read More]
Hands-On with Hardspace: Shipbreaker from PAX East 2022
HG Wells’s 1889 novel, War of The Worlds portrays a futuristic, intergalactic war with an extraterrestrial race. In 1938, a radio broadcast of the same Novel by Orson Welles terrified the nation, which lead to the 1953 movie of the same name. It feels like ever since then, space has been almost exclusively the subject of alien invasions and gargantuan space wars. In fact, the first video gam...[Read More]
The Day We Fought Space Hands-On at PAX East 2022
In the animal kingdom, there are creatures that are coined “living fossils” referring to creatures that have not if barely, evolved. Animals such as horseshoe crabs and chambered nautilus have remained mostly the same for millions of years and despite everything, staying alive. It can be argued that the shoot-’em up genre of video games, the genre is also a living fossil as well, but that is...[Read More]
City Block Builder Preview PAX East 2022
Rockers, in the coming week we will be wrapping up our PAX East 2022 coverage. Almost a month has passed since the event and we have shared with you a good majority of the demos we played during the event. If you missed any PAX East 2022 coverage, head to our PAX East 2022 section to view any articles you might have missed. My last PAX East preview is for a game that is by far not a game to sleep ...[Read More]
Lego Bricktales & Tinkertown PAX East 2022 Previews
Over the next week, we will be wrapping up our PAX East 2022 coverage. Almost a month has passed since the event and we have shared with you a good majority of the demos we played during the event. If you missed any PAX East 2022 coverage, head to our PAX East 2022 section to view any articles you might have missed. Right after PAX East, we covered one of Thunderful Games‘ PAX East demos, Th...[Read More]
PAX East 2022 Hands On Preview with Scathe
I might be biased, or based as the people on the internet say, but we need more wild and explosive games these days. Games, where you push start, and the action pretty much begins with a cool little story stringing it along. Not that there’s anything wrong with games that focus on major social and political issues or explore the dimensions and complexities of humans and class systems. Someti...[Read More]
Kao the Kangaroo (2022) PAX East Preview
The late 90s to the early 2000s were defined by platformers. Games such as Spyro, Crash Brandicoot, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Psychonauts, Sly Cooper, Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, and Donkey Kong 64 dominated the era. With open levels to explore and collectibles to gather, players had a variety of challenges to complete in order to perfect the game. Most PS2, N64, and Xbox players can r...[Read More]
The Last Oricru Hands-on Preview PAX East 2022
When a genre breaks ground and plants its feet firmly on the foundation, others will follow in its footsteps. Ever since Demon Souls in 2009, the Souls genre has established a firm foothold and many have followed the path. The Surge introduced Souls-like mechanics in a specific world dominated by cybernetics and sweatsuits. Hell point put players on the fringes of the universe to fight demons, not...[Read More]
Arcade Paradise Hands-on Preview PAX East 2022
When you think of a cute sim game, what do you think of? Most gamers will typically name off at least one Nintendo title in their top 10 cutest games list. Games such as Animal Crossing, or other titles such as Slime Rancher. These cute franchises have excelled due to cute characters but also addicting gameplay elements. Where some games thrive in one area, they fall short in others. Sadly, this i...[Read More]
Tin Hearts PAX East 2022 Preview
Hey Rockers. When you think of cute games, what do you think of? Most gamers will typically name off at least one Nintendo title in their top 10 cutest games list. Games such as Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Kirby, It Takes Two, Lego, Pikmin, Sonic, Little Big Planet, Yoshi, and Slime Rancher. So what do all these games have in common? Cute and potentially iconic characters but sometimes an emotional ...[Read More]
PAX East 2022 Hands-on with The Forest Cathedral
We may be entering the age of spaceflights, artificial intelligence, and augmenting the human body with cybernetic parts, but we cannot escape a fundamental rule. Humans are part of nature. Every fiber, atom, and DNA strand of our being is tied to this planet and the natural world. However, as a dominant and evolved species that has chartered most of the planet, we have had an impact, both good an...[Read More]