My introduction to the Alien franchise came in the mid-1980s when my parents were driving my brother and I from our home in Oklahoma to visit our grandmother in Milwaukee. We stayed overnight at a cheap motel that had HBO, … Continue reading Alien: Isolation — Teh Review

I’ve got to admit at the outset here that I haven’t beaten Assassin’s Creed IV. The more weeks go by, with more new games competing for my leisure time, the less likely it seems that I actually will. See, I … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed IV — Teh Review

I’m a huge South Park fan. I’ve seen every episode, many of them over and over. I occasionally think in South Park quotes. But for all the series’ success, there’s never really been a great South Park video game, which is … Continue reading South Park: The Stick of Truth – Teh Review

I need to admit a few things at the outset of this review, just in the interest of full disclosure. I haven’t beaten the game. According to Steam, I’ve logged 31 hours. That includes playing the prologue, which I stopped … Continue reading Total War: Rome 2 – Teh Review

Battlefield 4 is a big game and, like a lot of shooters, it’s really two games: the single-player and the multiplayer. Games like Crysis and Bioshock Infinite weren’t exactly famous for their multiplayer, and this sort of creates a conundrum … Continue reading Battlefield 4: Teh Singleplayer Review

Let me just get this out of the way: Outlast is the scariest game I’ve ever played. I think truly scary video games are a rare breed, with most of them devolving into shoot-’em-ups that imbue the player with far … Continue reading Outlast – Teh Review

I’m gonna confess a blasphemy: I thought Bioshock was tremendously overrated. If you’re talking about the art direction, the themes, the settings, the characters, etc., then yes – it was an exceptional game. But if you’re talking about its chops … Continue reading Bioshock Infinite – Teh Review

Legend of Grimrock is a little indie dungeon crawler RPG from developer Almost Human. It’s supposedly a tribute to some old-school RPGs like Dungeon Master, but those were well before my time as a PC gamer (of course, your nostalgia … Continue reading Legend of Grimrock – teh review

I’m starting to think that when game developers spend a lot of time talking about the texture technology in their new graphics engine instead of the gameplay, it might be a bad omen. Back in olden times it was all … Continue reading Rage – teh review