I don't know why the marketing run for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World seems so slow to me but for some reason, it feels like we've been waiting on this trailer for ages. But it's here now and that's all that matters right? Taki...

It may not officially be summer yet according to the sun alignment but if you go by the meteorological calendar, it is summer right now. So what better way to kick off the season where you can't play any PC games because you're afraid you'r...

There comes an issue when you take on a review for a game that seems like it is made for you. I love turn-based tactical games, I love football (soccer for the yanks), and I love but don't have the time to delve into Football Manager, so it...

It's memorial day weekend here in the states, one part remembrance for veterans that have died in the past, one part start of summer.  Memorial day also has a historical significance to the Star Wars franchise as all of the films prior...

Color me surprised, Deadpool 2 did what future classics Overboard, Life of the Party, and Breaking In couldn't do, it usurped Avengers: Infinity War as the top box office take for the weekend. Maybe it's not really surprising to see a comic...

Along with announcing a new expansion pack for Hearts of Iron IV at PDXcon today, a new physical collector's edition was also announced in part for the anniversary of its release on June 6, 2017 and also for celebrating the one million sale...

Today at PDXcon's announcement show, among the game reveals, news of more DLC packs for Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, and Stellaris were all announced to be coming in 2018. The first pack to be released will be the Stellaris sto...

PDXcon 2018's announcement show ended with quite the spectacle. Game director Johan Andersson, adorned in a toga and led by a legion of centurions, took the stage to announce the latest game from Paradox Development Studios, Imperator: Rome...

When it was announced at PDXcon that Paradox would be bringing their games to a new platform, my fears initially turned to a glut of mobile gacha games with cutesy versions of old-world rulers that I'd have to pay to get a good roll of. How...

God morgon! While you were sleeping, PDXcon kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden with publisher Paradox's keynote address. The lead-up to this event has been rife with speculation about which games would be unveiled at the ominous "announcement ...

A tweet from the trusted and fan vetted @TheOneRingNet yesterday revealed that they had discovered through multiple sources that the upcoming Amazon Lord of the Rings series first season would focus on Aragorn before the events of The Fello...

The best band ever PERIOD, Tenacious D, are currently in the sixth year of their six-year cycle of a new album release and with the imminent release of Post-Apocalypto some more information is coming out about what the new album will be....

One of the best RTS titles in the past decade, Offworld Trading Company, is available to play on Steam, for free, from now until Sunday.As is customary with free weekends like this, the base game and all of its DLC and expansions have been ...

Putting a direct to video grindhouse-esque movie up for review is a bit of a conundrum because you know what you are getting into when you press play, and it's not going to be "good" per se. But what happens when the movie is so bad that it...

Blendo Games has been one of the pioneers of storytelling in gaming for the better part of a decade. Blendo's games range from "walking-simulators" all the way up to action-based hackers. Blendo have an unmistakable air of confidence, exudi...

It's been 16 years since Broken Lizard exploded onto the scene with their stoner-comedy Super Troopers. Ever since then, they have had ups and downs in terms of their movies but for the most part, their comedy has always tickled me in just ...

Praise be to Todd, now the last 5% of the population who didn't already own Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be able to play the Special Edition of it for the weekend thanks to a Steam promotion. Also available to play for free this weekend is ...

Paradox Development Studio is known for its grand strategy games that have largely the same gameplay but are spread about different eras of human history. Six years ago though it released Crusader Kings II and while you could still move abo...

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One came out this past week. Despite Matt's review, the movie is doing quite well at the box office, so it's no surprise that studios are going to be cla...

Two weeks ago we learned that Geralt of Rivia of The Witcher fame was coming to the highly anticipated Soulcalibur VI as another one of their now almost expected crossover characters. The introduction trailer showed off just a few of his mo...

Every year in the lead up to the Game Developers Conference, a game jam is held on a 52-hour train ride that goes from Chicago to San Francisco. The jam, affectionately called Train Jam, is something I look forward to following along with o...

Back when Humble Bundle announced that they would be moving into game publishing, they announced a handful of games, one of which was under a working title of No Truce with the Furies. Now, because I'm a perpetual man-child with the power o...

Finally getting off their asses and doing something about the rampant problem of runaway in-game purchases, the Electronic Software Rating Board announced today that they will begin to label physical releases of games that contain in-game p...

It seems that in recent years there has been an uptick in the amount of manga based stories getting live-action treatments. Some of them good, some not so good, some really bad. So it's no surprise that the show that was voted as the most p...

Good Old Games is one of the better consumer-friendly digital marketplaces because it provides you with DRM-free games and usually has some goodies thrown in for older games. Over the past year and a half, GOG has been allowing you to conne...