Almost nothing can bring back the nostalgia of rifling through your childhood toy chest as the Toy Soldiers: War Chest game. Pitting waves of themed toys against one another is brilliant and fun; it just doesn’t go quite far enough.
This week Billy is checking out a side-scroller named Griffin Knight Epic, but there’s more to this game that what one label can describe. Come and be as pleasantly surprised as our Time Waster was this week. Tally Ho as we take to the skies!
Act of Aggression, from strategic masters Eugen Systems, is a traditional RTS in an age where resource gathering was thought to be a thing of the past. The game has gorgeous graphics sitting over an old-school style fighting experience.
Although An Artificial Night may have less mystery than previous audio books in the October Daye series that Michael has been reviewing, the stakes are raised to the extreme with this one, making it an ideal third book.
Gauntlet: Slayer Edition puts a modern twist on that amazing arcade game that gobbled up too many quarters of the kids of yesteryear. Available now for the PlayStation 4, the PC version has also been patched and updated.
This week our residential Time Waster hit a speed bump, but was able to recover with the help of Naked Man in a simple side-scrolling shooter.
Mad Max presents players with a blood and oil-soaked world where people are killed for a glass of clean water. Presenting a different story from Fury Road or the other films, the game is loaded with enough vehicle and land-based combat to keep any action-junkie happy.
Michael continues his review of some of the best audio books on the market today, and finds himself falling in love with Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series, in this case, A Local Habitation.
Our reviewer left Destiny several months ago in frustration with the game’s development path. Now with Destiny: The Taken King expansion, he finds that many of the sins of the past have been rectified, and replaced with glorious sci-fi fun.
This week Billy is playing a plant-growing simulator that takes itself a little too seriously. After all, is it really fun to watch the grass grow? Check out Viridi’s review inside.
