The Red Solstice: A Riotous Red Planet RTS
While many RTS titles are cookie-cutter versions of each other, The Red Solstice really changes things up by emphasizing both teamwork and individual soldiers, plus the ability to do things like slow down time by 90 percent. Explore The Red Solstice for a different kind of fight.
Enjoying the Free Life in Relic Hunters Zero
This week Billy is playing a free top-down shooter called Relic Hunters Zero. Is this free game worth a look, or would it just clog up room on your computer?
Revving up the action with Skylanders Superchargers
Each year, the Skylanders series tries to do something new to keep gameplay fresh. This year vehicles were added to form Skylanders Superchargers. Far more than a gimmick, Superchargers improves the game in addictively fun and exciting ways.
Fearing the dark with Late Eclipses
Michael’s back with the fourth entry in the excellent Urban Fantasy October Daye series. It’s okay to be Fearing the dark with Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire!
Opening Up Toy Soldiers: War Chest
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.
Gryphon Knight Epic Successfully Blends Genres
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: A Beautiful Face with Old World Style
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.
Raising the Stakes With An Artificial Night
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.
Wizard Needs Food, And Gauntlet: Slayer Edition, Badly
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.
How to Stop Being a Naked Man
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.