Review

Everyone makes decisions they come to regret. Even in video games like Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic, we often find ourselves wondering how our choices affected the outcome of the story we experienced. If we had chosen differently at a key moment, would it have made a difference? Usually, the only way to

SPOILER ALERT: No attempt is made in this piece to hide major plot points. I highly recommend playing Firewatch before reading unless you don’t plan to play it at all. Firewatch is definitely best played all in one sitting. My wife and I spent Valentine’s Day experiencing it together. It was a beautiful way to

A great caravan crosses the endless deserts of Kharak, a dying planet that is home to two great military powers: The Coalition and the Gaalsien. Against the horizon, the carrier could be mistaken for an aircraft carrier on the oceans of Earth, but this is Kharak, and that is a sea of sand. So begins

It has been a long time, and I am itching to write another review!  Hold on to your armrests, here I go! After years of being resistant to MMOs, trying World of Warcraft and EVE Online only to quit, in the last few months I have just had an inexplicable urge to play them. Something

During the Steam summer sale I picked up a lot of great games, but none of them has so held my interest and attention as much as Kerbal Space Program, which is often abbreviated KSP by fans.  It is still in Alpha, but is available for purchase now from the developer’s website or from Steam. 

I apologize for the long hiatus of my reviews.  Life has been very busy, and I found myself playing more Dwarf Fortress after I wrote my review of it, meaning that I did not really pick up any new games to review for a while.  What finally motivated me to purchase a new game was

Check out my latest Let’s Play series of Dwarf Fortress with my wife here: As I have recently not had the funds to buy a lot of new games, I have been interested in trying various free and older, low cost games.  After stumbling across a recommendation for it on Reddit, I looked into Dwarf

Crusader Kings 2 was a surprise hit in the PC gaming world.  Unlike the seemingly more inaccessible flagship franchise of Paradox Interactive Europa Universalis, this grand strategy title managed to gain a wider audience of many people who played more RTS style games, such as Starcraft or Total War, or turn-based games like Civilization.  The

Skyrim was my most anticipated game of 2011.  I preordered it, got it at midnight the day it was released, and played it solidly for almost an entire year, trying to complete as many quests as I could and try as many play styles as I could think of–including the infamous “being an NPC” play