Espire 1 hopes to be for VR what Metal Gear Solid and Goldeneye were for stealth and first person shooters respectively. In a word – revolutionary. One thing was clear as soon as the game booted up; this is one of the most immersive VR experiences to date. How you traverse through the levels is…
I never knew how much I wanted a pinball inspired hack and slash dungeon crawler until today and now I can’t imagine a world where this concept doesn’t exist. Flight School Studios is thinking completely outside the box with their new title, Creature in the Well. First revealed during the Nintendo Direct on March 20th,…
When I was growing up video games were a social event. LAN parties were the pinnacle of this experience. We would load up as many televisions and Xbox consoles as we could and head to any space big enough to hold all of us. Before the internet and social media exploded, this was the only…
This is a guest post from Contributor Chris Nunes. My current experience with the “VIP” demo for BioWare’s Anthem has put a javelin size hole in my heart. To say that my time with the game has been frustrating would be an understatement. I have had the demo downloaded for a week with the anticipation…
In 2007, Bungie announced to an applauding audience of employees that the corporate yolk of oppression had been lifted. Microsoft, their glaring down corporate overlords, had been appeased. The great departure of this studio that produced the single greatest killer software of the original Xbox in Halo: Combat Evolved had cleared its final hurdle. And with it, they made a new deal with Activision, one that would allow them to keep full ownership of this grand new IP.
With a few tweaks to the control scheme, it’s very possible that Tarkus will become a massive hit, especially if any of the fantastic enemies featured by the developer make it into the final game.
Darksiders is back. This time with a new studio comprised of many of the same people that worked on the previous two titles. There was a moment that many thought this game would never exist and, after all this time, there was quite a bit of expectation put on the game that would be hard for anyone to live up to. So the question remains – does the game exceed or at least meet the expectations? Let’s find out.
Videos games can be terrifying in ways that films and TV shows are incapable of because they put you in the shoes of the person making all the bad decisions and turn the threat of things that go bump in the night, personal. I remember the first time I played the original Resident Evil on PS1; walking down that long yellow hallway past a row of ominous glass windows positive that something was going to pop out but confident that I was somehow untouchable and safe on the other side of the TV glass. I wasn’t.
Though only the second game to date from Compulsion Games, We Happy Few proves one thing about the studio – they know how to create a captivating world to explore. The studio’s follow up to 2013’s Contrast is an incredibly ambitious title that has grown leaps and bounds since it first hit Early Access nearly two years ago. Their ambition growth as a team paid off in some ways and in other ways they seemed to miss the mark.
While games as a service like Fortnite, Destiny, and Rainbow Six: Siege take over the world, every developer is clamoring for their piece of the pie. However, what do you play while you’re waiting for the next big update or expansion? That’s right… something short and sweet. Sounds a lot like a single player game. This is where the single player market will expand – in the crevices of mainstream.
