Nicholas Bale
Lost Dimension seeks to add a few twists into the strategy RPG genre - defer attacks to team mates, balance powerful abilities with costs to sanity, and ferret out traitors amongst your ranks. Though this preview can't go into what goes on beyond the second floor, what I did experience showed some promise, though time will tell if it can come through in the full product. Read More.
We get the chance to see Beyond: Two Souls in action, highlighting the gameplay to expect from this story-driven game and what kinds of puzzles and situations the main characer, Jodie Holmes, will encounter. Read More.
We get a glimpse behind closed doors of a game where you must solve your own murder, and discover that not all it what it seems. Read More.
With Fart Magic, offensive slurs, raunchy equipment, poop-related attack items, and a slew of other things that people are sure to find offensive, we got to preview South Park: The Stick of Truth and the result is something to look forward to. Read More.
We get to check out a new game by Resident Evil-creator Shinji Mikami. The Evil Within looks like it could become an excellent survival horror title to scare those who wish to see the kind of evil that lurks within each of us. Read More.
The Saints Row story has been a certainly unconventional one, and at E3 I got the chance to see how the fourth game in the series is going to pan out, now with superpowers and invading aliens. Read More.
The Witcher 3 is promising to raise the bar even further in numerous areas - an improved combat system, larger world, and deeper quests look to make this one possibly of the best role-playing games of 2014. Read More.
Dark promises to bring a good mix of stealth and action to the Xbox 360 and PC this summer, with vampire powers and a cel-shaded style pulled straight from a comic book. Read More.
With the release date of the highly anticipated third part of the Deus Ex franchise just around the corner, a number of journalists were flown from around the US (and me, taking a train from Ottawa), to Montreal to see first hand the final version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Read More.
In a comfy hotel lounge, I got to check out the latest in the Serious Sam indie collection: Double D. This sidescrolling addition brings a lot of action, a lot of enemies, and a pile of guns. Literally a stack of guns. Did I mention there's gun stacking? Read More.
Serious Sam is not a complicated series. You shoot things that come at you, then you shoot them some more, then more things come at you and you shoot them, and then you go to the next area to find more things to shoot, and possibly blow up if you are so inclined. Read More.
It's hard to update one of the most popular strategy titles to ever come out on the PC. Various attempts have been made, some decent, some poor, but as far as I know, none have reached the level of popularity that the original had. The developers of the newly-rebooted X-COM have decided to sidestep this minefield, and instead created a pseudo-strategic first-person shooter, instead of a duplicate of the original. Read More.
I had a chance to play some rounds of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon at E3, a game I had been looking forward to since I heard of its announcement. Billed as a sequel to the cult hit Earth Defense Force 2017, it's all about shooting giant alien invaders with the most ridiculous weapons you can find. Read More.
In a closed booth, I got a chance to sit down and watch some gameplay from the upcoming
Final Fantasy XIII-2. Billed as a direct sequel that takes place right after the first one, you'll Read More.
Behind closed doors, members of the press were given a sneak peak into the return of Agent 47, the skilled assassin from the Hitman series. The last game came out in 2006, so there's a lot of time for the developers to learn what works for the series and what doesn't. Read More.
