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Tower defense games are a bit of a stigma to some. Unless you can stand out from the crowd, you’re doing what’s already been done before. But when a tower […]

To some the subgenre “roguelike” is a bad word. It means difficult gameplay, and to some, frustration. What if I told you that roguelikes aren’t all for hardcore gamers, and […]

I love co-op games. Playing with my wife or friends is great, and made even greater if we’re working together to achieve the same goal. And we’ll play all sorts […]

A few years ago everyone was excited for Banished—a colony building game where you had to see a group of people create a home for themselves in harsh wilderness. The […]

Taking on too much all at once is usually a bad idea. That said, it doesn’t usually stop creators. This can lead to a great triumph, a catastrophe, or, in […]

We’re huge advocates of video games as art—we cover video game art galleries, and have advocated many times for games to be recognized as the art form they are. And […]

For the last year or so I’ve been getting into tabletop gaming.  When I first started out, I had a weird notion of what it was about—super serious people pretending […]

As I found myself getting deeper into tabletop role-playing games, I started to understand the draw behind grid-based dungeon crawlers. Those dungeon crawlers were ever-present growing up, and it wasn’t […]

I think when I first got my hands on BPM: Bullets Per Minute, I said the mash-up of first person shooter and rhythm game was the best thing since chocolate […]

I’m sure we’ve all seen the video on the internet with that crab with a knife in its claw, waving it around like it knew what it was doing. It’s […]

Too many role-playing games take themselves seriously. There’s the strange, tongue-in-cheek moments from the first two Fallout games, and the Bard’s Tale series is known for its humor. But it’s […]

Team-ups, crossovers, and other collaborations between franchises are fun. It’s a pretty common phenomenon in fighting games, where crossover can almost be its own subgenre. It’s always fun to play […]