Dear Journal, Today I fought evil spirits with a camera. Spirit Camera is a game that could really only exist on the 3DS. Making use of the 3D camera, Spirit Camera is an Augmented Reality game that has you interacting with an AR book (The Cursed Memoir) and fighting spirits in the comfort of your own home. Though interesting, the […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I engaged in some literal corporate warfare. Syndicate takes place in the year 2069, when a mega corporation named Eurocorp has developed a chip implant that has allowed people to directly interface with technology and has largely replaced many of the world’s electronics. As a result, Eurocorp, and several other mega corporations (or syndicates) control the world […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I played a Toy Story game where you never play as any Toy Story character. That was the first and many let downs about Toy Story Mania, a “better with Kinect” game port of a previously released Wii title. Two players can make their way through a variety of shooting galleries in an attempt to get high […]
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Dear Journal, Today I fought robots as a waskly rabbit. Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal is one of those games that exist because someone, somewhere was told to make a game based on a popular license and they had to think of what to do with it. There have been a fair share of Looney Tunes based video games over the […]
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Dear Journal, Recently, I experienced one of the best stories in modern video games with a graphical style that brought me back to my childhood. When I say experienced, I mean it. To the Moon is not so much a game as it is an experience. In many ways, it’s the model interactive story adventure – heavy emphasis on narrative […]
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Dear Journal, Today I wrestled Andre the Giant as The Rock. WWE All Stars combined comically over muscled versions of some of the WWE’s biggest stars (or WWF as it was called when many of them rose to fame), all together in one game. It’s sort of like Field of Dreams, only with a lot more spandex. Facing off against […]
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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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Here at Clearance Bin Review, we have been doing what we can to help and shed light on the segment of digital gaming that is indie gaming. We’ve reviewed a variety of independent games and covered the Xbox Live Independent Games Uprisings. And we’ve covered the more mainstream, “standard” games for the big three console companies of Nintendo, Sony and […]
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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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Dear Journal, Today I played a game, based on a real life private for-hire military group that has had so much bad publicity that it has change it’s name twice since this game was released in 2011 and has paid almost 50 millions in fines for illegal arms trafficking. So, to restate the question posed in the title of this […]
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