Hugo Trilogy Review
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View ArticleManiac Mansion Review
Note: All screenshots posted on this page (as in other retro reviews) have been scaled up from their archaically tiny native resolutions. You can click most of them to view them in their pixel perfect,...
View ArticleSpaceVenture Ho!
With all of the recent Kickstarter madness going on the Two Guys From Andromeda, AKA the alter-egos of the creators of Space Quest, Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, have teamed back up to create a...
View ArticleX-com Versus the Zombie Menace!
Brace yourself for another shocking tale of my crippling case of backlogitis... I pre-ordered XCOM: Enemy Unknown for PC back in 2012, anticipating the ever-loving fuck out of it after not having a...
View ArticleDead Presidentes
I haven’t been going a lot of gaming lately period due to work and other responsibilities taking up most of my time, and most of my tiny bits of game time have been spent with some retro titles I hope...
View ArticleFear of the Dead
Somehow I never played Monolith’s F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon despite being super into PC games, especially online first person shooters, right around the time it came out. In fact I...
View ArticleStalactites and Stabbing Knights
My partner and I have been playing a few newer, console based, narrative heavy adventure-ish games lately, mostly as a way to play something semi-cooperatively as those types of games seem to work...
View ArticleQuesting and Surviving
A few months ago while looking for a new adventure-ish game to couch co-op through we noticed King’s Quest episode 1 for free on Xbox Live. Being a bit of a PC adventure game fanatic I’m, of course,...
View Article80 Years of First Person
I was as surprised as anyone to hear that Battlefield 1 was, in fact, really fucking good. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was the last of the franchise I got into, avoiding Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4...
View ArticleKing’s Quest Review
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View ArticleTales Have Been Told
I’ve written about playing each entry of Telltale’s series of The Walking Dead adventure games here and, for the most part, really enjoyed all of them. I’ve been meaning to go back and play some of...
View ArticleNeuromancer Review
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View ArticleStalactites and Stabbing Knights
My partner and I have been playing a few newer, console based, narrative heavy adventure-ish games lately, mostly as a way to play something semi-cooperatively as those types of games seem to work...
View ArticleMecha Zombies!
As soon as I heard about Iron Brigade (called “Trenched” at the time) I absolutely knew I had to play it. Not only was I already a fan of the humor and fun stylized aesthetics that Double Fine tends to...
View ArticleYes, It Is.
Back in early 2017 I made mention that my girlfriend and I had played through the first 4 episodes of Life is Strange and loved it but that our playthrough was “tragically” cut short before we could...
View ArticleBefore the Storm
After finally wrapping up Life is Strange we wasted little time before diving into the game’s follow-up prequel, Life is Strange: Before the Storm. “Chloe and Rachel bonding.” When I first heard about...
View ArticleAdventure Break!
My partner and I decided to do a quick co-op play through one of the numerous FMV style games we’ve been seeing all over the Xbox Store for years now. Most of these games (titles like The Bunker and...
View ArticleSierra On-line Books
I read and listen to a lot of books related to computer and video games, and having just finished one such book, I figured I’d make a post devoted strictly to books about the history of one of the most...
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