Kingdom Two Crowns
Build, explore, defend. The tenets of Kingdom Two Crowns should be familiar to any player who has spent a handful of minutes in a game where success i...[Read More]
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee
It has been forever since I have seen Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee, much less played it. It was one of the more popular games for the original Xbox and a...[Read More]
Port Royale 4 Preview
So, I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really have the best skills when it comes to ‘world-building’ games’ (see FrostPunk Review). However, I’m willi...[Read More]
Streets of Rage 4
Sega has a lot of iconic franchises to their name, and amongst those from the early 90s would have to be Streets of Rage, or Bare Knuckle as it’...[Read More]
myFirst Headphones
Here in the Stevens household, we have gone through several iterations of headphones and audio delivery systems for my six kids. Most of them work, li...[Read More]
80’s Overdrive
Out Run was a foundational moment for racing videogames. Yu Suzuki’s 1986 classic used Sega’s Super-Scaler technology to produce one of th...[Read More]
SNK Gals’ Fighters
Oh, man. I must have missed this game back in 2000. I would have played the hell out of it on my NEO GEO Pocket, rather than wasting time on Resident ...[Read More]
Valfaris & Slain: Back From Hell Double Pack
Steel Mantis is a two-man development team that impressed a lot of people with their action platformers Valfaris and Slain: Back From Hell. Our own Er...[Read More]
Sega Ages G-LOC Air Battle
Having played a lot of After Burner growing up, and my original Sega Master copy on a shelf nearby, I was intrigued at the opportunity to play another...[Read More]
Defective Holiday
Everywhere feels special when you’re on vacation. A change in scenery and a break from normalcy can render even the most prosaic location memora...[Read More]
Deliver Us the Moon
Story-driven games are my jam. They are the ones that you remember for years to come, and the ones you replay. See Journey, Symphony of the Night, or ...[Read More]
XCOM: Chimera Squad
XCOM: Chimera Squad is a bold move on the part of developer Firaxis Games. After the franchise laid dormant, I dabbled in XCOM: Enemy Unknown and was ...[Read More]