The HD remake trend hasn’t really seen many releases on PC, largely because most PC games have been “HD” for far longer and many still work on current machines, allowing for a simple digital release to appease fan demand. Though not as well-known as some of the major console franchises there are quite a few PC games that are deserving of getting a re-release, especially with newer operating systems acting a bit odd when faced with old software. And Age of Empires II is certainly one of them. READ MORE
If you’ve been reading this column for a while, it’s painfully obvious how much I care about player agency in games. From meaningful gameplay choices to moral choices (especially those that don’t just skew black and white), I’m all about games that allow the player to insert themselves (or some part of themselves) into the experience. Whether it’s creating a character or simply choosing between blue and red during pivotal story scenes, I find our implementation of choices to be one of the coolest things the gaming industry has focused more on in the past five or so years. READ MORE
Beyond its solid cooperative mechanics and modular gameplay, what really makes Sentinels of the Multiverse a great experience is the way the guys at Greater Then Games incorporate classic comic book tropes into its design. Where the base set covered a lot of Silver Age basics, Rook City touched on the “grim and gritty” era and Infernal Relics addressed mystical forces, the latest expansion brings one of the most classic comic themes: time travel and alternate realities. Aptly named Shattered Timelines, this new package of environments, villains and heroes will warp your experience in interesting ways. READ MORE
Over the storied history of games, we’ve learned that you can’t get everything perfect on the first try. When companies release new titles, we learn about our mistakes and how certain mechanics work. Along with gameplay advancements come graphical progression. From pixels to polygons, we see a series evolve over a number of years and teach us a grand lesson on how far we’ve come with games in our past and in our present.
What Evoland manages to do is take that progression and completely run through it in a couple of hours. READ MORE
Signal Ops just doesn’t know what it wants to be. It tries to be far too many things, and struggles to do even one of them correctly. READ MORE
