Backlog Quest II: Day 4 – Star Wars Kinect – Use the force, sorta

Dear Journal, Today I played a series of mixed motion control mini-games with a Star Wars theme. That’s the truth of Star Wars Kinect.  Rather than being some epic game where we save the galaxy and feel more like a Jedi than we ever had before, it is a series of mini-games sometimes strung together with weak story lines. Five […]

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Backlog Quest II: Day 3 – Asura’s Wrath – So much yelling

Dear Journal, Today I got so angry that I grew extra arms so I could punch people six times as fast. Asura’s Wrath is a game that falls into that sort of middle range in terms of success and popularity. People know of it, they’ve heard it exist, but try to find a gamer friend who has played it let […]

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Backlog Quest II: Day 1 – Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 – Still hating big cats

Dear Journal, Today I became the ultimate hunter (that never went toe to toe with Arnold Schwarzenegger). Much like my last go-around at taking on my backlog, I decided to once again start my quest with a Cabela’s game.  This time it is Big Game Hunter 2012, the sort of cousin to the Dangerous Hunts series. Only this time I […]

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Backlog Quest II: Day 0 – The Backlog Strikes Back

Dear Journal, I thought I had made progress, I thought the light at the end of the tunnel was starting to shine through, I thought the backlog was finally starting to wane. My last adventure into my backlog proved successful, and I felt confident that perhaps my foe would remain weakened and no longer prove a challenge that necessitated action. […]

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Indie Game Review: Your Doodles Are Bugged

Your Doodles Are Bugged by Spyn Doctor Games is a challenging puzzle game that utilizes resource management to go along with insane background features. The end-result is a fun game that can at times be frustrating. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snr1ExNffVE In Your Doodles Are Bugged, a clumsy apprentice knocks over the jar of bugs belonging to Doodleus the Master Doodler. Now all of […]

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Indie Game Review: Battlepaths (PC, XBLIG)

Battlepaths is a lighthearted 2D turn-based RPG in which you explore a vast world, gathering treasure, leveling up, and battling baddies along the way.  Sounds fun, right?  It is…for a while. Starting Battlepaths for the first time, you’re given the opportunity to create a new character with a focus on one of five characteristics (power, mind, agility, damage, and balanced).  […]

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Indie Games Uprising III Review: Xenominer – The next generation

The last game review in the Indie Games Uprising III line-up takes us, or more appropriately, crashes us on a distant alien world. Despite its alien appearance, many of us will be doing something we are quite familiar with in this unfamiliar landscape; mining. Yes, Xenominer is an alien twist on what is quickly becoming a classic genre, but does […]

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Indie Games Uprising III Review: Pixel – it will test you and your patience

Pixel by Ratchet Game Studio is a poorly executed 3D platformer that draws liberally from Portal. The game is not only greatly flawed by glitches and handling, but it also fails to provide any substantial gameplay. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grSu5vwoVdA   The nameless hero utilizes a Portal-esque gun that can manipulate strands of blocks to reach the exit of each level. The gun […]

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Indie Games Uprsing III Review: Entropy – Portal minus the portals

The Indie Games Uprising III has succumbed to Entropy; no not the thermodynamic property of cooling down (to overly simplify), but rather a Portal inspired indie game by the same name. Entropy has you solving various puzzles in a first person platformer that earns its name in multiple ways. The most obvious way Entropy earns its moniker is that the […]

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