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Folks, I’m here today to give you a quick review of West of Loathing (WoL), the brand-spanking-new single-player Western RPG from Asymmetric Publications. This is the company that is, of course, best known for the epic stick-figure browser MMO Kingdom of Loathing (KoL). Unlike KoL, WoL is single-player, and not an MMO. It is also …
If you’re even vaguely aware of stealth games, shooters, or even video games in general, you probably know of the Hitman series. For almost 20 years, Hitman has borderline dominated the stealth (some would say stealth-lite) genre, with only a few real competitors. Hitman introduced itself to smartphones not by shrinking one of their games …
If you spend any amount of time playing video games, you know how hard it can be to snack and drink. You usually have two choices: cheap, unhealthy snacks like chips and soda, or healthy but expensive snacks like almonds. When it comes to drinks specifically, if you want to save money you either have …
If you like Adult Swim shows, you probably also like Adult Swim games. From Robot Unicorn Attack and Five Minutes to Kill Yourself to Amateur Surgeon and Pocket Mortys, Adult Swim has been bringing the world great, quirky games for years. For people who like their games with a certain sense of humor without sacrificing …
A few years back, when smartphone gaming was still a fairly fledgling field, I had to move from one house to another. Moving is a tough time for gaming, since you usually don’t have your TV and your console and all your games and accessories in one place, and if you do, you probably don’t …
Everyone knows the feeling of going to Gamestop with a handful of games and walking away with a shiny new quarter and not much else. If you drove or took the bus it actually cost more to get there than you came away with, making it feel like even more of a ripoff. The antidote …
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If you love Trailer Park Boys, I got just the game for you. Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money is an excellent example of a great licensed game, and is definitely one of the best licensed mobile games I’ve run across. All of your favorite characters, schemes, and storylines are in this game, making it feel …
For some people (me very much included), childhood didn’t get much better than a choose-your-own-adventure book. After all, the combination of reading a great story and playing through what essentially amounted to a solo dungeons & dragons campaign was hard to beat. Nowadays, people don’t often buy any books, much less choose-your-own-adventures. Luckily, for people …
Ahh, good ol’ Yahtzee. The gentleman’s dice game. No way it could get any better, right? Wrong. I’m here today to tell you about Dice Hunter: Quest of the Dicemancer. If you like the idea of rolling collectible dice to defeat monsters, well, your day has finally come. Dice Hunter: Quest of the Dicemancer is …
Do you love scifi games? Do you like puzzlers? Do you like scifi puzzlers that you can take with you on the go? If not, well, that’s too bad. If so, though, let me tell you about the wondrous world of AlphaCat. At first glance, AlphaCat looks like another puzzle RPG in the vein of …