Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics have released a free Challenge Mode update for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. The trilogy also launches today on Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, and Android, and is currently 50% off.
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Marvel's Avengers has been out for a week now, for those of us who ordered the version with 72 hours of early access anyway, and in that week I've gotten a couple of characters of the level cap of 50 and into the power soft cap of 130. I've done everything there is to do in Avengers outside of the AIM Secret Lab raid, so I'm now in a confident spot to write this review. Before we dive into it though, let's establish where I'm coming from here. I don't read comics, and never have. My familiarity…
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Hello everyone and welcome back to yet another way past due edition of The Backlog. As usual, the real world continues to get in the way of things I'd rather be doing, but such is life for most of us. So we're here with the 29th installment of The Backlog, and we're going to be true to the name here. We're going to go back to a game that came out over nine years ago, Just Cause. Being that this game is more on the ancient side, gaming wise that is, we are going to keep things shorter than…
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The Tomb Raider reboot of 2013 was my dark horse game of the year, as it was for many other people. It was impressive and it struck a nice balance on gameplay and challenges that drew in many new fans to the series, including myself. I had always respected this series and I had tried out several of the earlier games, but the twitch gameplay and some other aspects were extremely frustrating. Now comes the highly anticipated sequel to the reboot and I can guarantee you this is a game that people…
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It's all about getting lost and getting crazy in an open world sandbox and being encouraged and rewarded to do it as insanely as you possibly can. How can you not like that?
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Murdered Soul Suspect starts off with a bang, or more accurately, a crash. Detective Ronan O'Connor is thrown out of an upstairs(4th floor I believe) window of an apartment building in Salem, Massachusetts. O'Connor was pursuing the a vicious serial killer known only as The Bell Killer. The multi-story fall didn't kill O'Connor, as The Bell Killer makes his way downstairs and finishes the detective off with several shots from his own gun. As he's about to pass over, O'Connor is greeted by his…
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This is a series that has been on hiatus for too long. Like many other long fans who have held their breath since the mixed bag but IMHO overly hated Dark Shadows, the news of a new Thief game was at first met with jubilation and then as media and details came forth a sense of caution and concerns on certain details. Some of these concerns were well warranted as we have ourselves another mixed bag of a Thief game. I think there's some hate out there that is extremely overblown. I have seen some…
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In many years I could sign off on this game as "Game Of The Year" outright. It's that good. In a year like 2013 is shaping up to be and the fact that this game came out early enough in it, the jury is still out. I can guarantee that by the end of the year this game will be still on many people's GOTY shortlists, including mine. That's probably enough of a review right there for a lot of people but wait, as they say, there's more! I'm going to explain how and why I think so highly of this game…
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I'm a long time Hitman fanboy. I view Blood Money as the apex of the series and that hasn't changed with the advent of this game. Just to get that out of the way. At least once a year I have to fire up at least Blood Money for a jaunt and often times Contracts and Silent Assassin as well. The games are permanent residents on my hard drive. It's been a long six year wait for myself and a lot of other people, but a new Hitman game is finally upon us. I'm really not sure why it took IO this long to…
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Hello all and welcome back to another installment of The Backlog. You know, when I first started these, I was looking at some blasts, or in some cases some flops, from the past. Here lately, I've been showcasing the type of games that have caused my wall of shame to grow unchecked for several years. Enough of the bullshitting, time to get down to business. Sleeping Dogs had been in the works for a couple years, first as an original title, then being proclaimed as a return to the True…
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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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In 1983, game developer Taito released Elevator Action in the arcades, and it was a popular arcade game that was later ported to home consoles as an NES title in 1985. That port is available on the Wii’s Virtual Console. But now, some 28 years after the release of the original Elevator Action in arcades, Square Enix has delivered a remake titled Elevator Action Deluxe available now exclusively on the Playstation Network. This remake hasn’t strayed too far from the original; one look at the game…
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Just Cause 2 has a terrible story and a lifeless world, but none of that matters when blowing stuff up is this much fun. Here's our PS3 review.
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