Author: John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.

Let’s Play The Disturbing Albino Lullaby

Albino Lullaby is one weird adventure game that strives to be scary without reverting to jump and twitch tricks. Its the deeply disturbing story which is the real enemy here. Come see if the first hour gives you chills.

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.

Maddening Fun With Mad Max

Max looks really mad here, which is pretty much his default mugshot.

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.

Shadowrun Hong Kong Adds Eastern Flavor To Amazing RPG

We’ve run the shadows in Seattle and Berlin, and now move to the orient with Shadowrun Hong Kong, the latest and arguably the best entry so far in developer Harebrained Schemes’ excellent translation of the beloved pen and paper role-playing game.

Labor Day Horror Fun With Stasis Let’s Play

What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by diving into a brand new game? We offer up the first hour of gameplay of Stasis, a horror adventure game set on an abandoned space ship where the entire crew has been violently murdered. With no memory, you will have to piece together clues as to who you are, and what happened to the crew. Or you may just share their terrible fate.

VooFoo Goes All In With Pure Hold’em

You KNOW we are going to play this hand. Watch out people, chips are going to roll.

Pure Hold’em brings the amazing graphics of the Pure series that we saw with Chess and Pool to the game of Poker. Suitable for players of any skill level, Pure Hold’em deals a winning hand for a budget price on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Entering the Shadows with Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Hoi, Chummers! The wait is over as Harebrained Schemes releases Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Join us as we dive into the shadows for the first hour of gameplay in what is proving to be another epic adventure as only the Shadowrun series can deliver.

Let’s Play Approaching Infinity with the new 1.2 Patch

The Approaching Infinity patch adds many more textures to the game, so expect to see a lot more color in space and on planets. But don’t worry, there are still plenty of space bunnies to pet, if you can find them while dodging all the other monsters that really want to eat your head.

Maximum Games Redefining Stealth Action With Alekhine’s Gun

Maximum Games is looking to redefine the whole stealth action genre with Alekhine’s Gun, a title that offers open world freedom, intense stealth gameplay and an exciting Cold War plot that’s not to be missed. Dive into the shadows a bit with its creators.

Game of Thrones: A Nest of Vipers Strikes Hard

The next to last episode in the Telltale Games series, Game of Thrones: A Nest of Vipers, turns up the combat while starting to wrap up the series in typical GoT fashion. Expect a lot of blood to be spilt on the sand, in the snow, on the forest floor and pretty much everywhere this time around.