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Review: 3D Streets of Rage 2
3D Streets of Rage 2 Sega / M2 Reviewed on: 3DS (exclusive) Street: 07.23 Side-scrolling brawlers don’t really have a home on current-gen consoles, but with the wave of retro gaming, helped in part by Nintendo’s Virtual Console, they have a place carved out for them on handhelds. Streets of Rage 2 originally launched on
Review: Monopoly – Game of Thrones Edition
Are you a low-to-moderate Game of Thrones fan and an average fan of board games? Then you are gonna lose your shit over this new Monopoly Collector’s Edition. Any above-moderate Game of Thrones fans, on the other hand … perhaps not so much. … read more
Review: The Swindle
The Swindle is a cool little heist game with a nifty steampunk aesthetic. It’s set in 1849 London, where Scotland Yard is on the verge of implementing an end-all-be-all surveillance system—the Devil’s Basilisk. … read more
Review: Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
I’m completely new to the Deception video games series, and I wish I wasn’t. Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess is a smart, original and, above all else, fun game. Let’s go back though to where it all started with 1996’s Tecmo’s Deception. It debuted on the PlayStation 1 and, unlike later titles in the series, was a first-person game that made references to—GASP—Satanism! … read more
Review: No Time to Explain
Despite the game’s title, let me try to explain this to you. A puzzling, at times challenging platformer in which a giant, interdimensional, time-travelling monster has kidnapped your future self, and it’s up to present you (as well as multiple alternate-reality yous) to traverse through dimensions, armed with a propulsion gun, trying to save yourself and find out what the fuck is going on. … read more
Review: Tembo the Badass Elephant
Tembo the Badass Elephant is a side-scrolling platformer in which you play as the titular Rambo-themed pachyderm. Tembo dashes and brawls his way through the invading Phantom Army, collecting peanuts, accruing points for enemy destruction, putting out fires and rescuing hostages. … read more
Review: Spectra
Spectra Gateway Interactive/ Mastertronic Reviewed on: Xbox One Also On: PC Street: 07.10 One of the stranger—perhaps more ironic—byproducts of this generation of souped-up consoles, is the amount of games I’ve personally played that look and feel like they are older than I am. I’m coming up on 30, for fuck’s sake. The reasons for
Review: Legends of Eisenwald
Legends of Eisenwald Aterdux Entertainment Reviewed on: Windows (exclusive) Street: 07.02 The child of a feudal lord returns home to find their lands in disarray, vassals squabbling with each other and bandits roaming freely across the land. They spring into action, rounding up a small band of dedicated men and women and expand their rule
Review: Blitzkrieg 3
Blitzkrieg 3 Nival Reviewed on: Steam (Exclusive) Street 05.06 The heart-pounding, palm-sweating classic that was the first Blitzkrieg comes back to life in Blitzkrieg 3. Blitzkrieg 3 is a real-time strategy game consisting of a single-player campaign and a live-action attack and defend multiplayer option—with a turn-based camp building mode. A player can chose from
Review: Ar nosurge Plus: Ode to an Unborn Star
In the world of Ar nosurge Plus, the planet Ra Ciela is about to be swallowed up by its dying sun, and the all-powerful emperor Cosal takes it upon himself to transport his people to a new home. … read more
Review: Captain Forever Remix: Collector’s Edition
Imagine building a spaceship out of Legos. Now imagine this interplanetary dogfighter runs on high-octane nostalgia, shoots triple-pronged lasers and wields buzzsaws for bumpers. This is Captain Forever Remix. … read more
Review: Rebel Galaxy
Rebel Galaxy
Double Damage Games
Reviewed on: PC
Also on: PS4, Xbox One, Mac
Street: 05.18
Every time I’ve played a game that puts me in charge of a spaceship, I’ve inevitably been disappointed. There’s always something that precludes an experience that should essentially be a simulated version of Joss Whedon’s Firefly. … read more
