Looks like the post E3 doldrums are passing, and we’re starting to get some interesting titles in the mix again. This, after I spent too much in the Steam sale and added a dozen games to my already bloated queue. But you don’t want to hear about my “problems.” You want to hear about games.
I never remember what the four exes are in a 4X game. Explore, Exploit, Exposit and Execute? Examine, Express, Exchange and Extract? Extrude, Experiment, Extemporize, and Explode? Exit an adult film?
The remaster of Red Faction Guerrilla is out this week, which seems thematically appropriate. I’d like to take a moment to give THQ Nordic a shout-out for knocking those remaster names out of the freaking park.
Vampyr is not the game I thought it was going to be. I was expecting the ability to choose which kind of vampire I’d be evolving into, be that the monstrous Nosferatu model, or the posh Count Dracula type, and everything in between. This is not that game.
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I’d ask, “Would you believe that I owned a PSP but never owned Lumines?” but I suspect the answer would be a shrug that said “Well, of course you didn’t.” With the game coming to the Switch, also known as the Bizarro World version of the PSP (I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to answer which one marries Lois Lane and which one wanders the galaxy saying “ME AM A PORTABLE CONSOLE!”), this m
I don’t throw the word “literally” around lightly, but I quite literally don’t know what to say about To The Moon.
It’s not that the game has rendered me speechless, it’s just that I don’t know what I’m allowed to say about it. It’s only a few hours long, short enough that I inadvertently finished it while trying to figure out what to write about it.
