Deep, Dark Storytelling with Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
The Sanator: Scarlet Scarf game is a graphic novel with a dark story where you make decisions that affect the main character and the game’s world, sometimes in definitive ways. But it also has a unique mechanic that forces players to eventually see all possible paths, plus one hidden ending.
Mr. Bullet Kills Time
Billy’s time wasting this week has him donning the outfit of a hit man has he figures out how to kill his targets in Mr. Bullet.
BATTLETECH Urban Warfare Takes The Fighting Downtown
The second official DLC for BATTLETECH, Urban Warfare brings fighting mechs into the big city, where everything is destructible and games of cat and mouse using the new ECM warfare modules can last for hours on end. It’s a brief but good addition to the core game.
Untold Book Checks in on Spy Series Five Years Later
We’ve been covering the Alex and Cassidy spy thriller book series for quite some time, so it was odd when book four was kind of a conclusionary tale. We find out why in book five, which takes place five years later, though with no less intrigue.
Puzzling the Light and Shadow with Fracter
Fracter is one of the most interesting and artistic puzzle games that we have reviewed in a long time. Telling a haunting tale mostly only using light and shadow, the game challenges players to figure it out, and what is actually going on in its unique world.
Rockman 20XX Is Fun to Watch, But Not to Play
This week Billy is checking out a promotional game for pop group Team Shachi called Rockman 20XX that features Mega Man as an old…man? Robot?
Night Call Delivers Intense Noir Ambience
Set in the dark streets of Paris and seen through the rainy windows of a busy night shift taxi, you play a driver with a silver tongue in the Noir-like adventure Night Call. Talk to your passengers. Observe the world around you. And don’t get framed for your own attempted murder.
Pixel Art Guide Helps Budding Game Makers Get Started
Make Your Own Pixel Art is a fun guide to help young people get started making art and animations with pixels, and forming the basis for either a hobby or even full career in game design.
Playing Dustwind’s New Solo Story Mode
What happens when you take a real-time multiplayer battlefield type game and add a single player story mode? That’s what Dustwind did, and we find out what happens next in our review.
Shootout 3D Murdered by Ads
Billy’s time wasting this week was brought to a sudden halt when a slew of ads sprung forth from Shootout 3D and buried him alive.