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Layers of Fear, a first-person psychological horror game developed by Bloober Team, is not so much a game you play as it is a game you experience. And no, I don’t mean this in terms of clever wordplay; you really don’t do much besides meander around a haunted house and...
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I got an Xbox One pretty early into its life cycle. This is fairly unusual for me, as I tend to wait for the prices to go down, but my friends and I were just dying to play “Mortal Kombat X.” I love the current generation of gaming, and...
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I have a big gripe with many survival horror games. They’re called survival horror, meaning the point of the game is to survive, but they end up actually being more action-oriented. Sometimes this works. It certainly did for Dead Space, which succeeded in scaring the living Hell out of me while always satisfying my need to...
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Halo Wars 2 Review By Richard Lynch When the first Halo Wars launched in 2009, nobody really expected to see a sequel despite a devoted fan base and a cliffhanger ending. The console RTS had always been thought of as an unachievable fantasy and while Halo Wars made...
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Truth be told, I didn’t exactly fall in love with Fallout 4. I liked it – I didn’t hate it at all – but I never fell into several hour trances like I didn’t during every other game in the series. This is why it took me so long to...
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When I was in middle school, I got Sierra’s “King’s Quest” collection for Christmas. If you haven’t heard of them, “King’s Quest” was the granddaddy of adventure games. The debut game, “King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown,” was released for computers in 1983 and captivated audiences. The story of...
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Lost Odyssey-The JRPG Classic You Missed I spent the bulk of my high school years engrossed in JRPGs of the PS1 era. “Final Fantasy VIII,” “The Legend of Dragoon,” “Chrono Cross,” these games resonated with me. When I finally got my hands on a used Xbox 360 in 2009,...
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Coming back to Skyrim, I didn’t know what to expect. I’ve played the game for I don’t even know how many hundreds of hours on my Xbox 360, and I thought I’d done it all. But, being the fanatic that I am, the chance to experience it with better...
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Gears of War 4 Review By Richard Lynch Put simply, Gears of War 4 is the Force Awakens of the series. It does a lot of things exceptionally well, so well that it often makes me wonder if Gears as a series has any tricks left to offer. For...
Layers of Fear, a first-person psychological horror game developed by Bloober Team, is not so much a game you play as it is a game you experience. And no, I don’t mean this in terms of clever wordplay; you really don’t do much besides meander around a haunted house and...
I got an Xbox One pretty early into its life cycle. This is fairly unusual for me, as I tend to wait for the prices to go down, but my friends and I were just dying to play “Mortal Kombat X.” I love the current generation of gaming, and...
I have a big gripe with many survival horror games. They’re called survival horror, meaning the point of the game is to survive, but they end up actually being more action-oriented. Sometimes this works. It certainly did for Dead Space, which succeeded in scaring the living Hell out of me while always satisfying my need to...
Halo Wars 2 Review By Richard Lynch When the first Halo Wars launched in 2009, nobody really expected to see a sequel despite a devoted fan base and a cliffhanger ending. The console RTS had always been thought of as an unachievable fantasy and while Halo Wars made...
Truth be told, I didn’t exactly fall in love with Fallout 4. I liked it – I didn’t hate it at all – but I never fell into several hour trances like I didn’t during every other game in the series. This is why it took me so long to...
When I was in middle school, I got Sierra’s “King’s Quest” collection for Christmas. If you haven’t heard of them, “King’s Quest” was the granddaddy of adventure games. The debut game, “King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown,” was released for computers in 1983 and captivated audiences. The story of...
Lost Odyssey-The JRPG Classic You Missed I spent the bulk of my high school years engrossed in JRPGs of the PS1 era. “Final Fantasy VIII,” “The Legend of Dragoon,” “Chrono Cross,” these games resonated with me. When I finally got my hands on a used Xbox 360 in 2009,...
Coming back to Skyrim, I didn’t know what to expect. I’ve played the game for I don’t even know how many hundreds of hours on my Xbox 360, and I thought I’d done it all. But, being the fanatic that I am, the chance to experience it with better...
Gears of War 4 Review By Richard Lynch Put simply, Gears of War 4 is the Force Awakens of the series. It does a lot of things exceptionally well, so well that it often makes me wonder if Gears as a series has any tricks left to offer. For...