Did you order the speed run simulator starring Rayman and friends?  No?  Well, here you go anyways! Let’s get this out of the way first – we are huge, HUGE Rayman fans.  Well, we should caveat that and say since…

A nightmarish sprint through hell on a next generation console.  Happy Halloween indeed! As a child of 80s culture replete with failed geek identity films like The Wizard and remarkable TV misfires like Captain N, I spent a lot of…

The Playstation network recently discounted Machinarium, a game we’d heard about and never played through. Readers will know that we love point-and-click adventure games, particularly those amazing LucasArts titles we used to play (we can’t wait for the Grim Fandango…

As we started wrapping up our backlog last week, we finally got around to playing Papo and Yo, an innovative platformer that debuted years ago. Papo and Yo centers around two characters: Quico, a young boy moving through a dreamlike…

A game about exceeding limitations that happens to do just that. It’s absolutely remarkable that the game, Thomas Was Alone, has received the level of notoriety it’s received considering the game itself is remarkably simplistic.  After all, the game is…

We continued completing our backlog of games last week by playing through Beyond: Two Souls. We have honestly been looking forward to playing this game since it premiered last year. We love Quantic Dream and we love how they have…

Is this Metroid-vania inspired luchador brawler mas cara que espalda? We don’t know, we don’t speak Spanish, but here’s our review of Guacamelee! for the Xbox 360. It’s strange that one particular gaming style has become so commonplace that it merits…

For the first few levels of Earth Defense Force 2025, you could be forgiven for getting a little bored. Each level involves blasting away at giant monstrous insects in simple levels (mostly city-scapes with occasional trips to the countryside or…

As summer is starting to wrap, we’re finishing up our gaming backlog by looking at Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. It has been a long time since we played a Triple A title and thought it lived up to the…

Jazzpunk will undoubtedly be one of the quirkiest gaming experiences you’ll ever have. Jazzpunk plays like a pulp mashup of high stakes spy espionage, cyberpunk, and film noir stories tied into a universe you’d expect to see in a “Ren…