Category: Reviews
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This Day in Gaming History, May 5: “Wolfenstein 3D” is released
By Marshall Garvey Ah, the first-person shooter (or FPS for short). What would our video game lives be without it? For all the evolutions in the gaming world over the years, it’s a genre that can never be phased out. If anything, it only seems to mushroom exponentially with each passing year, for better…
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Alien: Isolation DLC Review – Lost Contact
By Marshall Garvey Welcome to the third installment of my Alien: Isolation DLC review series! Having finished the two packages based on the original 1979 movie, it’s now time to explore the ones that expand the story of the game’s main campaign. First up is Lost Contact, a variation of the game’s Survivor Mode that…
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This Day In Gaming History: April 28th 1980. Game and Watch debut
By Jake Rushing Exactly 35 years ago on this day, Game and Watch debuted onto retail shelves with it’s first entry of the Game and Watch series called Ball. In this game, you just control the guy by pressing left and right buttons to move the arms to keep the ball juggling in the…
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Last Token Gaming Movie Review – World 1-1 (2015)
By Marshall Garvey What do you think of when you hear the term “video game”? Your first thoughts may be of spectacularly rendered, immersive titles you dedicate hours to on blockbuster consoles ranging from Nintendo 64 to the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Likewise, you think of the video game industry as the expensive,…
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Pretty Boy Simulator 2k15 aka Final Fantasy XV – Episode Duscae Demo Review
Publisher: Square Enix Developer: Square Enix Rating: Pending (Demo) Released: March 17, 2015 Systems: Xbox One, Playstation 4 (Reviewed) Genre: JRPG I still remember the excitement I had for Final Fantasy XII after the stinker that was Final Fantasy X-2. With promise of bold, mature storytelling, action-oriented turn based gameplay and a world loved by…
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Good Cop Gone…Good? Battlefield: Hardline Review
Because Payday TOTALLY didn’t do cops n’ robbers good enough… Over the last few years, the FPS hype train has trudged back and forth between the two biggest (and blandest) games for top spot of the FPS genre; Call of Duty and Battlefield. The pattern is easy to predict: Call of Duty would announce the…
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Retro Review: “FINAL FIGHT: STREETWISE” (2006, CAPCOM, PS2)
By Michael Mygind Released in 2006 by Capcom for the Xbox and PS2, Final Fight: Streetwise aimed to bank off the trend of 3D sandbox games such as Grand Theft Auto and its many copycats while trying to strike a nostalgic chord with fans of its definitive beat-em-up series, Final Fight. The story centers around…
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Alien: Isolation DLC Review #2 – Last Survivor
By Marshall Garvey Hello all, and welcome to my second installation of my Alien: Isolation DLC reviews! With the game’s last package having come out this month, it’s high time I resumed this feature to provide recommendations to anyone interested in getting the complete experience of Creative Assembly and Sega’s 2014 survival horror triumph. Especially…
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Backlog Review: The Walking Dead: Season 2 Review
By Terry Randolph and Jake Rushing TellTale has set the tone in interactive storytelling games; their games buckle players in tightly and promise to deliver a gripping, deep and personal story that not only serves as a game, but as an introspective reflection. Most of the choices made, without fail, often demand deeper thought…
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Review – The Order: 1886
I won’t waste time; The Order: 1886 by Ready at Dawn Studios is my definition of a mediocre game. Visually, it’s stunning, but tells an all-too familiar premise with some minor interesting tweaks. Each character falls spell to overly used archetype tropes and appear lifeless, but do just enough to keep players interested in the…