The Adventure Begins In June 2017, Rebellion Developments, the company that brought us the Sniper Elite series and many other games, announced their next big adventure called Strange Brigade; and a rip-roaring adventure it is. A Tantalizing Tale… Set in the 1930s, players take on the role of one of the Strange Brigade: a group…
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A Little Dragon Goes A Long Way Fans of Harvest Moon have been in a bit of a dry spell. While the game has been re-branded as Story of Seasons, and a different studio has taken over the Harvest Moon title, there hasn’t been much innovation from either. When it was announced that the creator…
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Lovely Day For It! When Compulsion Games started a Kickstarter campaign for We Happy Few back in 2015, prospective players were shown a promising vision of a first-person, story-driven game set in a drug-addled dystopian world. A year later, the game became available to supporters via early release. Although, most people have had to wait…
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Tom Sawyer Mark Twain is one of the most enjoyable classic authors to read. As a child, I was an avid reader of his work, and even got to take a trip to Hannibal, Missouri to visit his boyhood home. He was witty and smart, as well as very critical of the culture of his…
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A Samurai Love Ballad… Giggling under the covers late at night. A passionate evening with a lover? Well, something like that. Otome (Maiden in English) games are a romantic escape from the mundane. I started playing these RPGs while going through a difficult divorce. The idea of being a charming, beautiful girl while handsome, interesting…
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Another Playstation, another God of War. Such is the way of things, and so nobody was surprised when Sony announced the latest iteration of their hack-and-slash powerhouse. There have been numerous sequels (and spin-offs) following the 2005 Playstation 2 original, and most have maintained the same basic mechanics. The exception is 2013’s God of War:…
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