Amiibos Nintendo's line of near-field communication figures, amiibo, has consistently been making headlines since their debut late last year for their ability to sell out in the blink of an eye.  Even the upcoming Super Mario line of amiibos set to release next month sold out on preorders the same day they were made available.…

Games We love a good bit of unguided map discovery, (the Legend of Zelda series is enough proof of that) so here’s a few games with exploration at their core that might just entice (or deter) you to catch a small, badly serviced biplane to Bermuda. Now, where did I put my sunscreen?The ForestIs your…

Monster Hunter There’s a school of thought that mobile gaming can’t do big, complex games. The most popular are quick, simple and outrageously addictive little vignettes like Flight Control, Angry Birds, Flappy Bird and their ilk. By extension, handheld consoles’ titles aren’t a patch on their big ol’ tv-powered brothers. Apparently.This is to be expected,…

Starr Mazer With 4 days left on it's Kickstarter and $24,000 left to go, I feel it's my duty to shed some light on this game for you guys, as it seems not many people are highlighting this upcoming hybrid point n click adventure shmup currently in development.As a primer, Starr Mazer originally started as…

Witcher The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an open world role playing game set in the Northern Kingdoms. It is the last game in the series and continues Geralt of Rivia's story as he embarks on a personal mission. It is to be released on May 19th worldwide. 5. Sheer Size and Scale The Witcher 3:…

Order I ask this question mainly because I barely hear anyone that I know, or anyone on the internet really talk or hype the game up in any way.The most recent things I remember being “breaking news” was when Ready at Dawn announced that their game was in 30 FPS because they want their game…

Hatred If you spend much time on Youtube, you’re probably familiar with Honest Trailers – a series that creates trailers that actually tell the truth about the movie or game they’re advertising, often with hilarious results. The movie series is on the Screen Junkies channel and the game series is on Smosh Games. The trailers…

Trailer So the good ol' folks at Avalanche Studios and Square Enix has been very generous, as they just unveiled new screen-shots and a teaser trailer “Fire starter” for their upcoming sequel Just Cause 3.I want to discuss the trailer first as I feel that's the quickest one to talk about. The Trailer (like most…

Sproggiwood There are a lot of games out there that need to be played, and too many of those games are hidden away beneath the tide of AAA tripe that we were burdened with last year. Whether it be undelivered promises, bugs, glitches, pain-in-the-backside DRM, or micro-transactions, 2014 was a bit of a letdown to…

Rogue-likes Rogue-likes are hardly uncommon nowadays. If a game is not about zombies, punching trees or a combination of the two, you can bet a game has a "fresh new take on the Rogue formula". Like rotting corpses and foliage based pugilism, we just can't enough of the damn things. But why? 5) Quick, drop in,…