Patrick Calkins

Commandos: Ammo Pack is a bundle of the original Commandos: Behind Enemy lines and the expansion Commandos: Beyond the call of Duty for a grand total of 32 the toughest levels you've ever played.

Order of War is a game that takes place during later WW2 in the European theater that allows you to command the American, Russian and oddly enough the German forces . Square Enix is known throughout the gaming community for churning out formulaic Japanese RPGs following adolescent protagonists out to save the world from some menacing super villain. So, it's refreshing to see a company breaking a...[Read More]

WW2 games are a dime a dozen. In fact, I'm actually convinced that blasting Nazis is ranked up with one of the great American gamer past times. Heroes over Europe takes you from the familiar trenches and plops you into a cockpit to blast Jerry back to where he came from. Unfortunately, you're going to want to eject and go AWOL. Just a fair warning for those hard-core flight sim guys out there if t...[Read More]

  Real time strategy games usually rely on resource management and building massive armies to take out your enemies. Majesty 2 is breaks that conventions by having the AI control the units, rather than the player. It sounds interesting in theory but when it's put into practice it's an exercise in frustration, but somehow works out to be a fairly fun frustration exercise.

The Witcher is loosely based off of a series of fantasy novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski . If you're not familiar with the novels, you may be asking yourself "What the hell is a Witcher?". Simply put, a Witcher is a member of a fraternity of mutated humans that have undergone intensive training from a young age to become monster slayers for hire. Usually when a Witcher is in town, it's ...[Read More]

I have a weakness in my heart for side-scrollers. Trine definitely plays on the nostalgia card by taking three unsuspecting heroes with their own skill sets to have them solve physics puzzles to stop the advance of an undead army in this "2.5d" adventure

Game Overview East India Company is best described as a ship RTS economic game. As the name suggests you get to be at the helm of your own "company" from various locations across Europe as they make their way to Africa and India to acquire and trade exotic goods and even fighting rival companies and pirates along the way. EIC is the flagship game of small Finnish company Nitro games.

Dawn of Discovery is a very fun but involved island hopping civilization game that focuses heavily on resource managment, rather than combat.