VGW: Read Beyond the Headline
The very concept of the Hitman franchise is one that capitalizes on the perceived dark side that we all like to entertain from time to time. Professional assassins aren’t necessarily the most likeable of people, but somehow, IO Interactive has had players coming back for more of Agent 47 since he debuted in 2000′s Hitman: [...]
Drox Operative is an intriguing action RPG from Soldak Entertainment, an indie developer with a handful of other ARPGs under their belt. This one takes you into space, where you act as the agent of the enigmatic Drox Guild, working with or against the other races of the galaxy as you seek supremacy for yourself, [...]
The Frozen Hearth RTS comes compliments of Australian games studio Epiphany Games and is currently up for voting on Steam Greenlight. As the company’s first offering, Frozen Hearth is an ambitious title that’s long on features: it sports a co-op campaign, both LAN and network support for slaughtering your friends over many different multiplayer modes, [...]
The last Borderlands 2 DLC, “Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty,” was a fun pirate-y jaunt with a rather lackluster cast. The eponymous Capt. S was too shallow a character to really hold the player’s interest, which was disappointing after the strength of the characters you run into and the writing supporting them in the [...]
Say what you want about Call of Duty, but considering its continued popularity, it’s definitely doing something right. The market-dominating series is now entering its ninth iteration, with Treyarch at the helm once again. Call of Duty: Black Ops II has been said to be the great shift in momentum that fans and gamers across the world [...]
With every critically acclaimed, best-selling AAA game, there’s always the inevitable spawn of “me-too” titles; games enthusiastic about the new ground set by these big titles that try and capitalize on doing more of the same. A most recent example was Inversion, a generic, cover-based shooter styled after Gears of War with half the charm [...]