The Roaring Twenties were, by most accounts, a pretty swell time to be alive in America. Jazz music was growing, women were becoming more important members of society, and it seemed like everybody had plenty of dough to toss around. The recently funded Tower 57 recognizes this positivity, and asks, "What if, instead of that, everything was awful all of the time?" As it turns out, the answer looks pretty rad.
One of my favorite PC games growing up was flight simulators. Not the true-to-life ones where your entire keyboard corresponded to some particularly function but the dog fighting kind, like X-Wing or Wing Commander. Sky Rogue, out now on Steam Early Access, appears to offer the same kind of action with the added benefit of local co-op.
Silly Season is upon us once more as we are bombarded with top titles after a relatively quiet summer. For families, one of the games to look forward to is the 2 player local co-op title Skylanders Superchargers. Still part of the popular platform series, this time the game has vehicles. These are no ordinary vehicles, let the launch trailer show you how they are different.
Be it through books, games, or movies, the fantasy genre of late has started to take a closer look at mankind's greatest foe: the orc. Stances have begun to soften, their portrayals as heartless monsters have been replaced with those presenting them as savage, yet honorable creatures, and certainly not created to oppose the forces of good. The Orcs Must Die! franchise (including Orcs Must Die! Unchained) brings us back to the days of yore, when orcs were evil and needed to be slain. That was that.
The Sniper Elite franchise, to me, is all about those slow motion bullet cam death. I mean, when you line up a perfect shot and get to watch the gory fruits of your labor, it's oddly satisfying. Apparently the Left 4 Dead folks felt the same as the characters from both the first and second game are now playable in Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army.
I'm always amazed when I see news about a game that is over a year old getting an update. When that game is three years old, that's even more impressive. Happy Wars, the third-person arena action game that saw its release on Xbox One this past spring, received its twentieth (twenty-fifth?) title update last month.
Pontius the Knight, Amadeus the Wizard and Zoya the Thief are back! Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is a big new entry in the Trine series from Frozenbyte, bringing back all the puzzle solving co-op action we love, complete with some amazing new visuals.
A few weeks back, Arrowhead Studios announced the updated and modern version of Gauntlet was finally heading to PS4 as Gauntlet: Slayer Edition, towing a handful of neat updates along with it. Meanwhile, PC owners were kind of like "Well, what about us?". A free update for us, that's what.
Warlocks vs Shadows has created a new genre of co-op gaming. One in which a bass dropping wizard can unleash phat beats upon enemies while his co-op partner dances like its his job unleashing a storm of fireballs from the sky. If that's isn't a unique co-op experience, I don't know what is. In our latest let's play, we take a look at the final version of the indie action game on Steam in two player co-op - though you can play four. Can you imagine the sick beats?
Do you love Tom Clancy games? Do you like exclusive t-shirts? Would you like to save a kid's or veteran's life? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then you should definitely check out the Humble Tom Clancy Bundle. For only $75, you could virtually walk away with Rainbow Six Siege (pre-order), an awesome Rainbow Six Siege t-shirt, a ton of Tom Clancy games, and that great heartwarming feeling you get after donating to Extra Life and Operation Supply Drop.
The relaxation of Labor Day Weekend is nearly upon us, and with it comes the latest update to the decidedly un-relaxing Killing Floor 2. Unless, that is, you find zombie dismemberment relaxing. Look, Co-optimus is a judgement-free zone. Some people need a quiet room and meditation, others need to rip the arms off legions of the undead.
Toy Soldiers: War Chest brings the nostalgia and mashes together your favorite toys from the 80's into a living room battlefield. With their own take on tower defense, Signal Studios doesn't depart much from their formula but cranks the knob on the nostalgia.
