The Musou genre (or Crowd-Brawler as some prefer to call it) came out as a surprise to many of us back in the 2000s with Dynasty Warriors 2. Mixing hack & slash elements with a myriad of enemies fitting in front of the player’s eyes was a clever [...]
Binary Domain, Sega’s cyberpunk third-person shooter is an extremely underrated game in the true meaning of the word. It was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (Devil’s Details for PC), makers of the Yakuza games, and published by Sega in 2012. [...]
Aside from ALIEN/ALIENS, David Lynch’s landmark TV series TWIN PEAKS is that other seminal piece of media that games have displayed very little shame in borrowing elements from (Read: totally ripping off). Some do it well, some suck at it, and you [...]
Close your eyes and cast your mind back to 2005. This was a great year for gaming, with the release of the Xbox 360, and games such as F.E.A.R., God of War, Shadow of the Colossus and Guitar Hero all seeing the light of day and becoming huge successes. [...]
The lukewarm year of 2019 has almost come to a close, with more than a handful of hit or miss gaming experiences that either blew away gamers or were pretty hard flops… Yet the only one that I keep going back to is none other than Capcom‘s [...]
I’ve been a big Platinum Games’ fan ever since I fell in love with Okami (originally made under Capcom’s now-defunct Clover Studios) and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – so when Bayonetta launched on Steam, I HAD to buy it, and so [...]
Owing to a slew of mediocre releases, the past two decades have not been great for Texas-based Gearbox Software, as far as critically successful releases are concerned.. with the wild exception of their iconic Borderlands franchise, that is; this unique [...]
With the recent (unfortunate) closer of BOSS KEY studios, internet knives were out in full force again. Most of them of course, directed towards it’s CEO ,Cliffy B (or Clifford Blizenski, as he’s known in some circles). The always brash, outspoken [...]