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This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was bigger and more virtual than ever.
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E3: Driving Games Drive Me Crazy – Can Virtual Reality Help?
Driving games have been around in one form or another at least since Commodore 64 days. What always annoyed me about them was their lack of reality. I knew how to drive. Yet, every time I picked up a joystick to try out Gran Turismo, Le Mans or Indy whatever, I’d inevitably crash.
Read More »PC Game Review: ‘Dead Island Definitive Edition’
'Dead Island' is still a fun game of zombie mayhem and the new Definitive Edition certainly looks good, but the upgrade is only skin deep.
Read More »E3: Games that Don’t Go Boom, but are Fun Anyway and Have Bacon
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, invaded the Los Angeles Convention Center and environs from June 12-16, and left craziness and delight in its wake. I’ve never been a great fan of the shoot’em up games, so I searched the humongous displays in the Los Angeles Convention Center for build’em ups. I found two: a relative newcomer, 'Farming Simulator', and the newest iteration of a classic, 'Sid Meier's Civilization'.
Read More »Xbox One Review: ‘Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst’
'Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst' offers significantly more gameplay, but at a cost, and is unlikely to inspire the same passion as the original game.
Read More »PlayStation 4 Review: ‘Doom’
'Doom' made me long continuously for the feeling of accomplishment that comes from surviving a hellish onslaught.
Read More »PlayStation 4 Review: ‘Hitman: Episode 3 – Marrakesh’
In the end, I enjoyed Marrakesh far more than Sapienza, but I am still unconvinced.
Read More »Xbox One Review: ‘Fallout 4: Far Harbor’
'Fallout 4: Far Harbor' is the largest landmass for an add-on that Bethesda has ever created, and while it might not be Bethesda’s densest add-on ever, in comparison to the main game, its adept storytelling is a welcome surprise.
Read More »PC Game Review: ‘Homefront: The Revolution’
Some games have such terrific concepts and ideas that you try very hard to like them more than they deserve. Homefront: The Revolution from Deep Silver is one of those games. It has a great view of a city overrun by foreign parties and the effort to take it all back, …
Read More »PlayOn Makes It Easier to Cut the Cord
“Cord cutting” means getting your news, sports and entertainment direct from the Internet, rather than through a cable company. PlayOn software makes this task less daunting by pre-populating its interface with almost all the popular online programming sources. On top of this, it gives you a software based digital video recorder (DVR), they call a Streaming Video Recorder (SVR).
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