PAX East 2017: The American Dream's Take on Gun Culture is a Hilariously Dark...
The American Dream presents a 1950s world where “all of your everyday needs are solved with guns.” It’s a cleaned-up sitcom version of a decade plagued by civil rights unrest and communism hysteria,...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Snake Pass is The First Great Herpetological Platformer [Preview]
When I think of kicking back and relaxing, snakes would not be the first thing that come to mind. But putting the team behind LittleBigPlanet 3 in charge of a slithery puzzle-platformer may give it...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Loot Rascals is a Turn-Based Saturday Morning Cartoon [Preview]
Loot Rascals, the new turn-based rogue-like from Hollow Ponds, walks that wonderful line between evoking what you love and know while also forging a path all its own. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: My Memory of Us is a Sad Fairy Tale About Friendship During...
If you stumbled upon My Memory of Us at IMGN.PRO’s booth on the PAX East show floor, you’d think it was rather innocuous. Look a little deeper, however, and you’ll see the real story of children coping...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: The Cyberpunk Arcade Racer Makes a Strong Showing with...
Distance's marriage of cyberpunk horror and arcade-style madness may make it the most creative racing game I’ve played since Grand Theft Auto V’s Cunning Stunts expansion. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Ogre Head Studios and Nyamakop Bring International Style to...
It's refreshing to make it to the smaller booths and see what developers outside of the US think of PAX East, and how their backgrounds affect the ways they approach game design. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Perception Proves Haunted Houses are Scarier When You're Blind...
Perception takes narrative horror even further by throwing in a blind protagonist, whose only means of “seeing” is making noise to use echolocation—which is everything you’ve been taught not to do in...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Preview
Nintendo’s latest console, the Switch, is off to a promising start, and next month Mario Kart 8 will get a rebirth of sorts, this time in Deluxe form. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Church in the Darkness Preview
Partially inspired by the infamous Jonestown cult, The Church in the Darkness has you seeking a nephew swept up in a South American cult's machinations. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove Preview
With original designer Greg Johnson at the helm, Back in the Groove plays like a love letter to the 1991 release. Continue reading…
View ArticleHalfbot Posts Screenshot of Unnamed New Game to Their Blog
The guys over at Halfbot recently posted a screenshot over on the Halfbot blog that shows off a new game they've been working on. Continue reading…
View ArticlePokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates To Infinity Offered Up A Day Early At PAX East
Nintendo has released its PAX East lineup, and the company is offering its loyalists a 24 hour sniff at two of their highly anticipated 3DS titles. Attendees who visit the Nintendo booth can purchase...
View ArticleSuper Mega SFIV
Street Fighter IV not good enough for you? How about Super Street Fighter IV? Still not good enough? How about Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. Still not floating your boat. Fine, how about...
View ArticleKiller Frost May Be in Injustice?
Injustice: Gods Among Us is almost complete and nearly done build was shown to all at the Twitch.TV booth at PAX East this year. Only about six characters are still locked in the roster, and it appears...
View ArticleThe Evil Within: PAX East Preview
There's been an immeasurable amount of hype behind Shinji Mikami's return to the survival horror genre with The Evil Within Continue reading…
View ArticleBorderlands: The Pre-Sequel: PAX East Preview
Inside the replica moonbase Gearbox and 2K Australia built on the floor at PAX East, I'm watching a live gameplay demo of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Continue reading…
View ArticleInfinite Crisis: PAX East Preview
Knowing the backstories for each of the heroes and villains in Infinite Crisis didn't mean a damn thing when I stepped on the battlefield. Continue reading…
View ArticleWolfenstein: The New Order: PAX East Preview
Wolfenstein: The New Order is definitely a bright and shiny new package, but it very much feels like more of the same. Continue reading…
View ArticleDevolver Digital: PAX East Preview
Like many other quality titles in the confines of the Indie Mega Booth, Devolver let the games speak for themselves. And what a statement they made. Continue reading…
View ArticleEvolve: PAX East Preview
When Turtle Rock Studios announced it was working on a new cooperative game, that was literally all the information I needed to know. Continue reading…
View ArticleNew Hearthsone, Overwatch Details Coming at PAX East
It seems that Blizzard will be keeping up with its announcement schedule at PAX East this year with a first day panel that won't disappoint. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: Final Fantasy XV Preview
With Final Fantasy XV, which began its life as Final Fantasy Versus XIII back in 2006, Square Enix is really pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a Final Fantasy game. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: We Happy Few Preview
The dangers of peer pressure have never been more real than in Compulsion Games' We Happy Few. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: Adr1ft Preview
The first game from Three Zero One studios, headed up by Adam Orth and Omar Aziz, puts players in a unique predicament. As (presumably) the only survivor of a terrible accident on a space station,...
View ArticlePAX East: Alienware Gets Steamy
Let’s just get it out of the way: the Steam controller looks weird. It’s got a concave design, a circular touchpad on the right, a clicky round touchpad with some semblance of directional buttons on...
View ArticlePAX East 15: Severed Preview
It's unfair to call Severed a departure for the studio, since all three of its games thus far have been rather diverse, but Severed definitely feels different. That's probably because it relies almost...
View ArticlePAX East 15: Lovers in a Deadly Spacetime Preview
There are few things in life truer than death, taxes, and my inability to be a competent co-pilot. I take too many risks, don't really pay attention to what my partner is up to, and I'm easily...
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