Bringing You The Best
With the rise of indie games over the last decade, we’ve seen a rise in profile for smaller scale and experimental platformers. It’s not that they weren’t being made before…
I have no deep nostalgia for Battletoads. The idea of knock off Ninja Turtles is kind of cool but I played that NES game for a weekend as a kid…
When Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon came out two years ago, developer Inti Creates crafted something so close to Castlevania III that I was instantly in heaven when I played…
Stela is supposedly about a young woman witnessing the final days of an ancient mysterious world. I don’t believe Stela is the young woman’s name and based on the amount…
I love a lot of different types of games but 2D-action platformer is probably up there as my favorite genre. As such, the new indie-platformer The Forbidden Arts drew me…
There are a ton of indie retro-style platformers. Every week it seems like a new one is releasing and sometimes they blur together. JackQuest: The Tale of the Sword is…
Since the debut of Playdead’s Limbo, there have been a steady handful of independent studios trying to capture the look, feel, and success of the critically acclaimed platformer. None though…
There was a time in video game history where companies anointed mascots to represent their brand. Nintendo had Mario. Sega had Sonic the Hedgehog. TurboGrafx had Bonk. And Sony had…
Last April, Ubisoft dropped the first in a trilogy of side-scrolling Assassin’s Creed games, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China. I enjoyed the game immensely (review link here), feeling it captured the…
Pixar is no stranger to Disney Infinity. In fact, the first game in Disney’s popular toys-to-life series was 2/3 founded on their backs, with Monster’s University, The Incredibles, Cars, and…