Tasked with battling an ever-changing variety of enemy hordes room after room, The Weaponographist has players assuming the role of dungeoneer Doug McGrave who is seeking vengeance on a witch who has cursed his ability to hold on to goods or currency. Because of a refusal to aid a town in which the dungeon is overflowing with bad guys, this witch has given this main character a really raw deal. This means that each time a weapon is picked up it must be used until it’s no good then discarded.
This point and click adventure provides the punch in the chest, awesome introduction right from the start to get players off their feet and interested in the story it is about to unveil. After this crazy opening sequence which entails scrambling for what to do while falling from the sky, whether or not you’ve played the original, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 can most immediately be recognized for its very high quality voice acting and graphics. The title provides a handful of unique playable characters including Nate, Wilbur, Ivo, and Critter, and spans various time periods as multiple journeys and interconnected events are experienced throughout Aventásia.
Hitting Xbox ONE and Steam Today on April 28, 2015 is State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition, the third person action / adventure / shooter with a persistent world of survivors to be recruited, materials to be scavenged, zombie infestations to be contained, and a lot more. One of the most distinct features of State of Decay lies in its punishment for mistakes. Sure, it takes a lot to get this to happen, so there’s plenty of time to avoid it – but let your camp members die out in battle and they’re gone for good.
The long wait is over, and it’s here, so how is it? Grand Theft Auto V runs on the PC like a dream come true. I played it once on the PlayStation 3, I played it again on the PlayStation 4, and now I’m playing it on my Windows PC. Some may say “hey, wait a minute, this is just the same old game being re-released?” and that’s not entirely true – however, I say to that it’s a testament to how good this game really is. When you play it over and over again you notice more and more care and love that was put into every piece of the title by Rockstar Games. It still stands high and tall above the quality of other games on the market even to this day, it has not been out-done in these couple of years in which it has seen release on the PS3 / 360, PS4 / XO, and now Windows PC platforms.
The Year is 2552. Murder aliens for the good of the human species in Halo: Spartan Strike, where you don’t play as Master Chief but you will be fellow a Spartan soldier uncovering the details of events in the Halo story-line previously shrouded in some degree of mystery. Thirty missions are faced as back-story is given to the Halo franchise and that same beloved twin-stick shooter gameplay from Halo: Spartan Assault is brought to an even higher quality level. Tom Salta who did the soundtrack for Halo 2: Anniversary is back again to provide a moving score that feels great while gaming, and graphically the title has been taken to a new level as well. While you can get the game from Windows Store on your Windows 8 Phone, Windows 8 PC, or the Apple Appstore on iPhone / iPad, many people enjoy playing through Steam on Windows 7 still and Microsoft chose not to leave us behind thankfully. The game is fully available on its own for just $5.99 or with the original game it sequels for $9.99 as a two-game bundle.
Although this game perhaps needs no introduction, I’ll start by saying Titan Souls is one of the recent indie-developed games that are part of a larger wave of software focusing squarely on gameplay. That’s not to say it doesn’t look and sound great, but surely in a world where multiple hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on big budget games we are looking for pure gameplay design to merit purchases from smaller studios or even teams of three such as the case with Titan Souls.
When we last left off, the Call of Duty Zombies experience was being re-invented through High Moon Studios and Sledgehammer Games very different approach to things. Now that Black Ops 3 has been announced and Treyarch is known to be making another installment to their world of Zombies, the pressure once again shifts back upon Advanced Warfare’s DLC packs as a new piece of Exo Zombies gaming is added with Ascendance. In addition to the second edition of Exo Zombies (entitled Infection), there’s also four new multiplayer maps being added to the competitive online experience. We will go over each of these one by one as well before delving into what the newest chapter of Exo Zombies has to offer.
Protect your eyes from constant damage through staring at a screen all day and all night whether gaming or working. Sounds too good to be true, right? I had my suspicions, but am happy to report that assuming a pair of GUNNAR eyeglasses won’t help the average to extreme gamer / computer user would be dangerously wrong – they indeed help a ton. I’m somebody that gets way too much face time with screens. If I’m not working on a computer I’m usually gaming on a console, computer, handheld, even twiddling around with my smartphone or tablet. Until cybernetics becomes cheap and affordable, this is my life. I’d recently been getting incredibly painful symptoms of eye strain and fatigue including visible veins and chronic migraines, and while GUNNAR eyewear probably won’t end that completely it has been the best method I’ve found thus far to prevent that from happening.
Intensity heats up in the graphical adventure’s third installment as Mira’s previous actions begin to impact her delicate situation in King’s Landing. Attempting to help her family either passively or aggressively (depending on the player’s actions in previous installments) begins to weigh on the scales of her public image within society. At the same time, we learn that some of the Forrester men we thought had perished indeed are alive though just barely. Players must continue to deal with the encroaching influence of the Whitehills under the Boltons and begin making a plan. Only it just isn’t that simple. A traitor is discovered to be among the Forrester’s closest council but without clear evidence of whom that might be it is difficult to act on that news. Perhaps even worse is that the source comes from a not so particularly trustworthy individual. The daughter of Ludd Whitehill attempts to rally the Forrester clan to come to a mutual, peaceful agreement including bowing down to her brother Gryff for their own good – or is it?
Touted as a masterpiece by many, the Homeworld games are known for their deeply intrinsic value as some of the best designed real time strategy titles of all time. Packed with the original Homeworld 1 and Homeworld 2 games completely untouched, the Remastered Edition of each game, and the Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta, the value proposition of this Collection is very appealing.
Born of Kickstarter and now available on Steam as well as directly through the developer Frontier Development’s website, Elite: Dangerous is a Space Simulator with heavy emphasis on large-scale open world elements focused around the piloting of deadly spaceships built for combat. Frontier Developments has made two titles like this in the past, but due to disagreements with publishers this latest title was met with much delay and finally put together thanks to the advent of crowdfunding. The game is even planned for release on Microsoft’s Xbox ONE some time during the second or third quarter of 2015. Truly back by popular demand, Elite: Dangerous attempts to offer our flight sticks something incredible – but how well does it succeed?
Reaching into the nostalgia of Action RPG exploration and pulling out the very best game mechanics while managing to forge completely new feels at the same time arrives Rack N Ruin on the PlayStation 4 from LifeSpark Entertainment made up of former Blizzard Entertainment talent reborn in the indie world. Hit up merchants for unique spells, collect the souls of the innocent for your devilish masters, and survive onslaughts from wizards, knights, dragons, even cryptic warriors as abilities are earned and willpower is tested. Players take the role of one dark minion who must wreak havoc on well prepared armies of ‘do-gooders’, rid dungeons of the filthy ‘goodie goodies’, solve a few puzzles here and there just to get every door unlocked, leave no stone un-turned, no chest un-pillaged (that’s a word right?), and engage in dark humor laughing maniacally the whole time.
This exciting second episode from Telltale Games picks up immediately where the first left off. More blood is placed on our unlikely heroes hands, if you can really call them heroes that is. Charming personalities must once again fight against their own instincts to come up with some kind of way to trust each other. Trust, it seems, is the only factor holding people together in a world full of chaos and constantly shifting goal posts. Of course, depending on the decisions you’ve made in the first episode of Tales From the Borderlands, the experience you get in Episode 2 may vary a bit. One thing you can count on though is another driving scene, complete with high anxiety, defensive violence, and some very unexpected turns (please forgive me for the pun, I don’t use them often).
Now that the fifth Beta phase has been issued for Sorcerer King it’s high time RealGamerNewz drops our thoughts and feelings on the direction the title has been heading in thus far, the development studio’s vision for those who don’t know yet, and a general impression on how that vision is actually being delivered. Most importantly, whether or not this game is even fun. But first things first, there’s a few things you may not know about me which I’d like to disclose immediately.
Impressively high quality for a low price, the Sibera from SteelSeries is now one of the best headsets I own. Extreme comfort paired with one of the best noise cancelling ear pads at this price point go a long way to make this set special, but the microphone quality is where Siberia really stands apart from its competition. If you need to escape from the world around you, throw these on. If you need to do podcasting, create video content for YouTube, or just be heard clearly when gaming the Siberia’s microphone audio quality is almost indistinguishable from an entry-level professional desktop microphone that you may have seen professional YouTubers using. This blew me away and was not expected especially given how inexpensive SteelSeries have managed to make it. The fact the Siberia is capable of doing so well at this and remain cost effective is a real service to the gaming community.
An impactful journey begins with a heart-wrenching narrative in which the cycle of life and death are prevailing themes. Players discover more about how to play as this cycle becomes better understood. Each part of the environment, which may at first seem unapproachable, ends up serving its own purpose in this nearly perfect ecosystem of gameplay design. From a team of developers called Moon Studios collaborating across the world (with members in Israel, United States, Australia, and more) and thanks to the blessing of high speed internet telecommuting, Ori and the Blind Forest lands on the Xbox ONE and Windows PC (via Steam) gracefully showing off Microsoft’s ability to spot a diamond in the rough and propel beautiful visions to the spotlight. Much as the team coming together to make this game, the harmony of each element it consists of reveals itself and the full experience is formed with clarity.
Counterspy is a crazy cool mix of side-scroller elements combined with stealth and shooting moments that work out well. Two dimensional and three dimensional art styles are mixed together providing the best of both worlds in this indie-style title developed by Dynamighty and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Though this is the first game Dynamighty has ever created, the team is made up mainly of industry veterans from the days of LucasArts and the quality of it gives all of us here at RGN great hope that this team of ten will be a positive influence on the video games industry overall.
Whether you plug in a controller or use the keyboard I, Zombie is a pretty interesting game that is pleasantly surprising in the way of how satisfying it feels to master. Each level is a mystery. Players are given just enough information to approach the puzzle-like strategy and tactical layout each scene offers. Essentials to the gameplay mechanics include eating humans which turns them into part of your zombie horde, controlling that horde and hanging back while they do the work, and attacking alongside them while attempting to use them as (undead) human shields.
An incredible new game paying homage to yester-year has been created by Matt Kap, who is responsible for a great deal of the artwork in Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (among other titles). Castle In The Darkness is the definition of pristine in terms of polish for a Retro-Inspired Indie Platformer / Action RPG. The Kingdom of Alexandria’s fate rests on your tiny 8-ish-bit shoulders after your King has grown ill with a mysterious horde of monsters slaying every last guard in town… except you.
An amazing breakthrough! A portal to another world has been opened, but there’s only enough power to send 1 dwarf through. Players take control of aforementioned dwarf as they build in this new sandbox title for Steam. Craft The World’s very extreme amount of polish, stability, and intuitive design allow players to jump in right off the bat and enjoy. The development team has put together something totally new, don’t judge a book by its cover.
For the 20th anniversary of the Heroes of Might & Magic franchise, we present to you the Heroes of Might & Magic III – HD Edition Steam Review. Before we begin, a brief history of the path this game has walked to arrive in front of you here today. Might & Magic began as a video game for the Apple II personal computer and eventually made its way to many other platforms including the Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-16 CD (in Japan), and eventually even the Nintendo NES. The game was one of the most early role playing games to emerge in the industry and was mostly created by one person, Jon Van Caneghem. Knights, Clerics, Robbers, Sorcerers, Paladins, and Archers are created with tracked statistics that evolve over time, similar to a Dungeons & Dragons system.
RealGamerNewz is a brand that was built on freedom of speech, brutal honesty, and an open-minded team covering a diverse section of topics and platforms. Forged out of molten lava itself, our brand started off as a rebel faction in the blogosphere that was able to overcome the strong arm of censorship that exists in every industry these days and just like a steel sword we are that much stronger for being birthed through fire.
The heat we generated when we first hit the scene with our floating brand podcast which was hosted on various high profile websites eventually demanded that a home for authors with a voice be protected from the politically correct and corporately controlled media outlets of today. RealGamerNewz.com was formed as a haven for those who want to bring the truth to light for gamers everywhere. Better yet, to admit when those truths have many ways of being interpreted, do the best job possible of showing multiple viewpoints, and to keep the spirit of video games strong.
A whopping 599 thumbs down user reviews on Steam, but is it really a bad game or not? RealGamerNewz answers that and more.
When you actually read these reviews, you may start to notice that the major complaints most have against Cities XXL are related to user preference and fixed by existing mods already available for free with easy installation through Steam Workshop, or they are complaints about the game not running optimal enough. I can assure readers that RealGamerNewz has tested this game on a budget, entry-level machine complete with Quad Core processor from AMD and GTX 650 graphics card from NVIDIA (eVGA specifically), with no major issue the game is running for us on just 8 gigabytes of standard DDR3 RAM.
The classic from Windows PC days which spawned its own standalone device (working off of hundreds of paper cue cards and flash cards as well as built-in buzzers, voice speaking, and sound effects makes its way to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. You Don’t Know Jack is a classic form of trivia game show where the host is a straight up comedic act that plays on the cruel and foul nature of dark humor and smack talking among friends. In the middle of a party, it was easy to boot this up immediately and three people in the room joined me from their smartphones in what ended up becoming the center of attention. This is done from the mobile browser, so no need for annoying install / update of apps just gaming, everybody shouting out answers at the people who were playing, while those safeguarded their phones from each other’s sight. The various game modes that go from simple multiple choice, multiple contestants buzzing in modes to bizarre word relation examinations with twitch control or modes geared to one player while the rest tried to sabotage the event through other means given by the game.
Xbox One Exclusive: At this time no other platforms DLC release date are confirmed. If you haven’t already, go check out our CoD:AW Review to get a feel for where we rank the game overall in the franchise and genre at large. Outbreak is perhaps the most unexpected and now talked about piece of the Havoc DLC, so that’s what this Review will mainly focus around. It is unclear at this time how many new Zombies maps will be released by Sledgehammer Games in total – so keep that in mind. That being said, so far their work is impressive.