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Dragonkin: The Banished
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Dragonkin The Banished: How the Montescail City System Works

Gary Smith

A new trailer for Dragonkin: The Banished was released today, and this one focuses on Montescail — the city that serves as your home base throughout the game. It's worth a closer look because it's not just a fast travel menu with an NPC or two. Montescail starts at level one and scales all the way to 50. As you play, you earn improvement points to spend on passive bonuses or upgrading specific shops. What makes this more than a stat screen is that the city visually changes as it grows; buildings…

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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Review
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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Review

Gary Smith

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (PC, PS4 [Reviewed], PS5, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS) Developer: Nihon Falcom Publisher: Nihon Falcom (Japan) / NIS America Released: July 21, 2016 ESRB: T – Teen The Ys series began back in 1987, a little over a year after I was born. While I had heard of the franchise, I had never played a Ys game until this year. However, while browsing games available on PlayStation Plus, I came across Ys VIII and Ys IX. I thought the screenshots looked good, so I read…

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Achilles Legends Untold Review

Gary Smith

Soulslike isometric ARPG Achilles: Legends Untold is now available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Read Gary's review of this budget friendly hack and slash title to see whether or not its worthy of your time and money.

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Risen Review

Gary Smith

Risen, the cult classic RPG from Piranha Bytes, is on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Is it worth playing in 2024? Read our Risen Review!

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Torchlight 3
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Torchlight III Review

Gary Smith

In real life, it's been eight years since Torchlight 2 released but finally the third game in the franchise is here. In game, it's been a century since the events of Torchlight II. Novastraia is once more under threat of invasion and you'll need to venture forth into the frontier to defend against the Netherim and its allies. Along the way, you'll overcome hordes of enemies to find fame, glory and new adventures. Torchlight III (PC, PS4 [Reviewed], Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) Developer: Echtra…

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Darksiders Genesis
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Darksiders Genesis Review

Gary Smith

Darksiders Genesis has arrived on consoles (PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch) after releasing late last year for PC and Google Stadia. Budget priced at $39.99, Genesis brings a lot of value to the table in terms of a fun gameplay loop and replayability. Genesis is a spin-off of the main Darksiders games, and in this case serves as a prequel taking place before the three numbered games. The perspective has shifted to an isometric one akin to Diablo, the developer is Airship Syndicate as opposed…

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Anthem BioWare game
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Anthem Review

Gary Smith

It's hard to believe it's only been a month since BioWare and EA released the heavily hyped Anthem on PC, Xbox One and PS4. It's a game that had a lot of fanfare behind it and was poised to be the next big thing from BioWare. It's an open-world looter shooter stepping in to compete against the likes of Destiny, The Division 2, and Warframe. It was to be the "cinematic" looter shooter with a story. Fast paced gameplay, unique builds that would matter, and loot you'd want to chase... these were…

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Book of Demons
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Book of Demons Review

Gary Smith

Book of Demons is the first installment of developer Thing Trunk's series Return 2 Games, which is creating a "Paperverse" of games inspired by the "early golden days" of PC gaming. Return 2 Games is planned to be made up of seven Books where the game world is a pop-up book, paper style. Book of Demons kickstarts the series with a tribute to and parody of a true PC gaming classic, Diablo. Like Diablo, Book of Demons is a hack and slash ARPG and shares a similar theme. Here, you'll make your way…

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Patriot’s Playing: Diablo 3 & Titan Quest

Gary Smith

It's a been a while since I've done one of these posts, but I want to start back writing more and so here we are. This week, I'm playing three games. Of course Destiny 2 is a given for me, and this week I plan on spending a little more time in the Haunted Forest since I didn't really get to into it last week. Outside of Destiny though, this week I'm continuing to play some Diablo 3. i'm playing some on my main character, the Demon Hunter I first began playing on a couple of years ago. I recently…

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Assassin's Creed Origins
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Assassin’s Creed Origins Review

Gary Smith

Assassin’s Creed first released in 2007, and two years later saw its first sequel. After that, fans of the franchise got a new entry every year from 2009 to 2015 with the release of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. With a technically flawed release in 2014 with Unity, many fans began to feel burned out on the series. Thus, 2016 came and went without any major Assassin’s Creed game releasing. In October 2017, ten years after the release of the first game, Assassin’s Creed Origins released and promised…

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Spellspire
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Spellspire Review

Gary Smith

Finnish based developers 10tons Ltd. are back again with their latest game on console, Spellspire. Like practically every 10tons game, Spellspire offers up fun when you just have a little bit of time to game and can't really get into a 45 minute mission in a "bigger game." That's one thing I love about games made by 10tons, you can spend a lot of time playing them but have it be spread out over short chunks of time. Slow and steady progress without spending time trying to rush to get to a save…

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Neverwinter PS4
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Neverwinter Review

Gary Smith

Neverwinter is a free-to-play MMORPG that released on PS4 over a month ago, but has been available on PC for three years and Xbox One for a over a year. This review is based on the PS4 version, and it's completely free in that you don't even need PlayStation Plus to play the game. Since its release, I've put A LOT of time into the game. I wouldn't do that if I didn't enjoy it. And while it is a free-to-play game, it no longer is to me. I've put $60 into the game, so it's basically a brand new…

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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The Witcher III – Wild Hunt Review

Eric W.

This gaming series has been a frustration for me. Frustrating because I have played and tried each game in this series and did my darnedest to fall in love with the games and just couldn't because some of the gameplay and combat mechanics were not to my liking. I just couldn't get on board and get excited. Until now. The third time really is the charm for me and likely a lot of other people out there judging by the feedback I have been able to gauge since the game came out. The reason this…

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Bound By Flame
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Bound By Flame Review

Gary Smith

Bound By Flame, the cross-generational RPG from French developing studio Spiders, gets the spotlight for being the first fantasy/action-RPG on PS4. Yes, it's on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, but those systems have plenty of action RPG's (including Spiders own previous outings like Of Orcs and Men, and Mars: War Logs). For PS4 owners with that action itch, this is the only game in town at the moment. Luckily, it's a very good game. To set the stage, I generally play games on either hard (familiar IP's…

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Soul Sacrifice
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Soul Sacrifice Review

Gary Smith5 Comments

Well, I've had yet another ordeal getting to this point with Soul Sacrifice. My Gamestop claimed their shipment hadn't come in, so I didn't pick up the game on the release date. I went back two days later, and the guy working said it had come in prior to the release date because he was there when it came in. I can already hear Gary telling me this is why he doesn't go to Gamestop. Beyond that, I've been really busy at work lately, so this might be a bit shorter than most of my other reviews. I…

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Deus Ex Human Revolution
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review

Eric W.5 Comments

I'm reviewing the PC version of this game but make no mistake: You get a high quality experience on whichever platform you can get this one and you should as soon as possible. Upfront I will say that you should prepare to play the best game you've played this year thus far at least. If you have the hardware, the PC opens the door up for some potential DiretX11 eye candy, a little higher resolution in some spots, and keyboard and mouse play which is far and away my preference for any first person…

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