Outlast Review
Silver AwardOutlast, by Montreal-based Red Barrels, is an exercise in pure survival horror. Â Red Barrels has a doozy of a team made up of EA and Ubisoft vets who clearly decided to take what makes survival horror games most successful and...
KickBeat Review
Kick To My Beat KickBeat is a new take on fighting/rhythm games. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution but for your thumbs. As someone with poor foot-eye coordination, KickBeat is a much-welcomed music-based game.  Its upbeat...
The Wonderful 101 Review
Offbeat GemPretty Wonderful The now famous team at Platinum Games, developers of Bayonetta and Vanquish, receive Nintendo’s blessing to let The Wonderful 101 hit the Wii U with two hundred fists. While a few problems hold The Wonde...
Dragon Fantasy Book II Review
An RPG Just Like Any Other It is nostalgic from the beginning. Dragon Fantasy Book II opens with a scene familiar to gamers old enough to remember the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Picture it: a hero lying asleep in a be...
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Mega-Review
Bronze AwardA Really, Really Dark Descent Your two children have gone missing. You hear their eerily calm cries from the darkness while your head is still swimming from a fever dream. This is how you begin your trek through the fog, the da...
Aliens: Colonial Marines Review
Game Over Man, Game Over! “Aliens” is a great film that has inspired countless movies, video games, and other forms of creative media since its debut on the big screen. Unfortunately, just about everything else in...
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F Review
Offbeat GemBecause Japan I honestly didn’t know what to expect going into Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F. I knew it was a rhythm game, and I figured it was from Japan because of its title, but I had no idea if I’d be able to un...
Total War: Rome 2 Review
Gold AwardNulli Secundus Story If you’re looking for a game with a brilliant story line, excellent plot twists and genre defining writing…look elsewhere. I say this, not because the story is bad or anything, but because there isnR...
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Mega-Review
Battle Focused Nirvana A year after the surprise sleeper hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown wowed the RTS and turn-based crowd, the XCOM brand started regaining steam proper. Added to that there was also some development going on a game c...
Devil May Cry Review
Bronze AwardDevils Never Cry There has been a fairly large amount of controversy with the reboot of Devil May Cry. When the aesthetic changes to the series’ iconic character Dante were revealed, fans of the franchise were immediate...
LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins Review
Not a Good Way to Begin the Chase, Chase I have a soft spot in my heart for LEGO games. I know they’re simplistic, silly and primarily for children, but I’ve still had hours of fun with Traveller’s Tales’...
Halo: Spartan Assault Review
I’ll admit that I had some reservations about this game when it was announced. I’m a huge fan of the Halo universe and to go from a first-person shooter on a console to a mobile platform seemed like a jump that could not ...
Space Hulk Review
A Hulk of a Game Fans of the Warhammer 40,000 universe will definitely take a liking to this PC adaptation of the tabletop board game. However, in my humble opinion, this should stay a board game. Space Hulk for the PC is a...
Killer Is Dead Review
The Man on the Moon “Suda51” is a name that’s synonymous with “strange”. Goichi Suda has been involved with the creation of some of the oddest games to have ever been released, from killer7 to N...
Time and Eternity Review
The Eternal Battle Time and Eternity was a desperate challenge for me to finish. It was a mix between the constantly repetitive storyline and the complete lack of effort put towards the animations that made this game perhaps on...
