The first real time I paid attention to CD Projekt Red was back in 2014 at E3, with a behind closed doors demo of The Witcher 3. I tried getting into it a year earlier, but all the appointments were booked, but luckily I was able to still get in

Voxels were the next big leap in gaming at one point, and it feels like everyone just straight up forgot about them. Voxels are basically individual cubes that various objects and worlds can be created from millions of them. Teardown utilizes voxels to create a world that is able to

Extreme sports games have become a much smaller genre in gaming over the last decade. When they do come out, most try to recreate or recapture the very familiar style of games of massive success, like the Tony Hawk series. One of the biggest sports besides Skateboarding was snowboarding, and

My time spent with the newest game developed by From Software has been much longer than any previous game in the series. While Bloodborne did intrigue me with its setting and atmosphere and general quick movement, compared to the other Souls games I just never purchased it to give it

Desk Job, the newest “game” developed by Valve, is more of an interactive promotional experience than a real game. Taking place in Valve’s Half-Life universe, and the Aperture Science Labs, it continues the ever evolving slow spanning story of Cave Johnson. Which is surprising that one of their biggest

When I played through the Castlevania series a few years ago, I struggled with Castlevania 2 probably more than any of the other ones. Partly due to it being so bafflingly hard to progress without some sort of guide book, as it required you to hang out on random parts

Just not enough games focus on 14th century France. Nor do they revel in the gross and disgusting conditions of those far off times. A Plague Tale: Innocence spends the majority of the time showing the gross underbelly of France during this time period and is using the Black Plague

After I modded my switch and downloaded everything under the sun that I could possibly want. I came across a game that got my interest a couple years ago. Nintendo has always had this weird obsession with drumming games, with Donkey Konga and their stupid loud annoying bongos being the

The only thing I remember from my first time playing Skate 3 back in 2010 was the fictional character played by pro skater turned actor Jason Lee, called Coach Frank. That should say enough about the third sequel to the amazing Skate series, but there is more to it than

Black Box came back with vengeance in it’s follow up to their first Skate game, with Skate 2 just a couple years later. Everything is improved, with better fidelity of the graphics, a much larger city and even more events and objectives to complete. But with those massive lists

Putting the stupid naming convention of EA’s Skate aside, it’s a game and series that tried to take on gaming’s skateboarding genre that was well established by Tony Hawk and his Pro Skater series. Instead of just copying the layout and using the same formula, Skate really

I’m terrible at fighting games, and I’ve never really been much of a competitive type of person to begin with. So when a new fighting game comes out, I very rarely ever get into them. I just don’t enjoy fighting against the person I’m hanging out

I lived in a small lake based mountain community for around 10 years, and while it wasn’t quite as small as the city of Providence Oaks in Lake is, it felt like I was back home. Lake takes place in a small lakeside town in 1980’s Oregon, and

I’m surprised by a couple things with Lucky’s Tale, one, that it’s a franchise that seems to have put out a few games now, and no one talks about it. And two, that the reason no one talks about it, is partially the fault of the naming

Somewhere along the 5th game in the series, I lost all interest in the Halo franchise. ODST with its weird offshoot story, and Reach being at the end of the 360’s lifespan, along with Bungie no longer the developers of their own game… I just didn’t care about

Arkane games are a bit of a missing piece of my gaming background. When Dishonored came around, I was captivated by its artstyle, reminding me very much of Bioshock mixed with Half-Life 2. But sadly the gameplay itself relied so heavily on stealth that I really didn’t get into

Ever being the fair champion of giving something the benefit of the doubt, I finally sat down and gave a fair shot to the SNES version of Aladdin. Already going in to it knowing the Genesis version was the superior version, I do admit I was kinda rooting for this

When Metroid Dread was released in October of 2021, it kicked off the newest gaming obsession of mine, and allowed me to finally start the journey of playing through the other half of the genre known to most as  “MetroidVanias”. In 2019, I played through the Castlevania series, and now

My journey to play the whole Metroid series in chronological storyline order was immediately fraught with issues the moment I decided to start. Playing Zero Mission as it’s a remake of the first game with extra stuff padded in went well enough, but after having to make a decision

Paratrooping a car out of a cargo plane and landing on an active volcano and racing down it is a great opener for a game all about crazy and exciting racing. The Forza series has been split in twain for quite a long time now, and with each new entry