Let’s Play Kingdom: New Lands
We are taking a look at Kingdom: New Lands this week, a new side scrolling strategy game from developer Noio and publisher Raw Fury. You read that right, it’s a side scrolling strategy game. While that might seem odd, the simple controls conceal a bevy of interesting and deadly strategic choices.
October Daye is back in Once Broken Faith
It’s been a little while since we covered the October Daye series. Once Broken Faith is actually book ten in the series. This one dives deep into sleazy Fae politics, but also has a quite a lot of action. If you have not been following this series, consider starting with this one.
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Offers Lively Tactical Combat
Based on the classic sci-fi television series, but set before the show during the first Cylon War, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock lets armchair admirals build and command the entire Colonial Fleet in stunning 3D tactical space combat.
Noticing Similarities in The Grape Escape
This week Billy is checking out a platformer called The Grape Escape and he can’t help but compare it to Super Meat Boy.
A Muddy Good Time with SpinTires: Mudrunner
SpinTires: Mudrunner is a different kind of mudbogging thrill. Tasked with driving 20-ton behemoths down muddy paths that are barely considered roads, you may only be driving a few miles an hour, but its every bit as exciting as any racer.
Having A Ball With Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom
Inspired by the future imagined in the 1939 World Fair, the zany Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom: A Novel of Retropolis by writer and artist Bradley W. Schenck is utterly unlike anything else in science fiction.
Splish-splashing Fun with Splasher
An innovative platformer game for the Nintendo Switch and other consoles, Splasher will have players doing all the running and jumping they might expect, but with the addition of a cool water gun to both defend themselves and manipulate the environment.
Enjoying the Rouge-Like Cardinal Quest 2
This week our Time Waster is all about Cardinal Quest 2, a small indie game that Billy checked out years ago in its beta, that channels the rogue-like genre.
Classic Chess Game Makes Moves in Chess Ultra
Who knew that a thousand-year-old game could make such a new splash? Chess Ultra for the Nintendo Switch plays well, and provides some of the most eye-popping backdrops for a game of chess ever created. Plus, it works great when played on a television or the portable Switch screen.
The Dinosaur Lords Adds Twist To Traditional Fantasy
A neat if unusual fantasy, The Dinosaur Lords book has been described as Game of Thrones with dinosaurs, which is not all that inaccurate. The book is filled with bloody intrigue and political plotting, which also happens to involve dinosaurs.