Recently I received a gift of Divine Divinity and Divinity: Original Sin on Steam as a belated birthday gift from one of my best friends, David. He had been keeping watch on Divinity: Original Sin while it had been in development and thought I might like it. I had never heard of the series nor… Continue reading Review: Divinity: Original Sin
When I hear a game is free to play I think “yeah, but....” The “yeah, but...” being me wondering is it going to be worth trying? Will I have a fun experience, or will I run into a pay wall straight away? Will I enjoy the aesthetics of the art and the game design,… Continue reading Review: Warframe
Let's just say that when I heard that ZeniMax Online Studios were developing an online Elder Scrolls game to be published by Bethesda Softworks, I was less than excited. I felt that the aptly named Elder Scrolls Online seemed like a cash grab using an intellectual property that was better than that. Don't get me… Continue reading Review: The Elder Scrolls Online
Age of Wonders III was released at the end of last month by Dutch developer Triumph Studios. Please allow me to share my thoughts about it with you. Let me start right now by stating that I really enjoy Civilization V. The Heroes of Might and Magic series isn't bad either. All of this being said,… Continue reading A Review of Age of Wonders 3
I mentioned back in January of 2013 that Firefall by Red5 Studios was a game that I was looking forward to being released hopefully that same year. At this point I don't know if it will ever launch, or if it does, that it will be worth playing. To be fair, Red5's acting CEO, James… Continue reading The Dream that was Firefall
Starbound, one of my most anticipated games of 2013, was finally released into early beta last December by developer Chucklefish Games. As excited as I am about the game, I decided to wait until the early beta had a couple of patches under it's belt before I felt I could talk about the game… Continue reading Starbound (So far …)
Over the Thanksgiving Holiday my best gaming buddy Trev mentioned that he thought we should check out a free-to-play ARPG called Path of Exile. “All the reviews that I'm reading of this game keep calling it the spiritual successor to Diablo 2,” he said. I told him I had to leave to go to Thanksgiving… Continue reading Review: Path of Exile
Longtime fans of Hordes and Warmachine and anyone else with a penchant for bone-crunching, metal mangling gameplay, will find much of that experience re-envisioned in a hard hitting deck building game called High Command from Privateer Press. It is available as separate Warmachine and Hordes sets, and both bring all the same fun of theorycrafting… Continue reading High Stakes: High Command Game Review
I recently had the good fortune to be able to get in on the Marvel Heroes open beta a couple of weeks ago through Steam. I jumped on to Steam and went to my library to figure out what I felt like playing. As I perused my list, I came across “Marvel Heroes – 2… Continue reading Thoughts on Marvel Heroes
On or around the tenth of this month it was reported by many gaming news web sites that Adam Orth, who was until April 10th a creative director at Microsoft, had resigned. This is due to some unfortunate statements on Twitter. Let me tell you how I heard about this. Regina asked me if I had heard about game… Continue reading The Sad Tale of Adam Orth
