You Don’t Know Jack – The Jackbox Party Pack PS4 Review

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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.

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Broken Age: Act 1 Review

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Broken Age is a point and click adventure game, sounds fun already. It tells the story of a young boy and girl living parallel lives to each other without knowledge. A girl living in a village, a boy living in a spaceship. The girl is selected as the next to be sacrificed to a monster, but she refuses. While the boy is living alone only with a computer, I guess you could say is mom to watch him, but he wants to get away and live adventures of his own.

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