Shelter is part parable about the cruelty of nature, and part parenting sim. You play a mother badger guiding her cubs across a vast wilderness fraught with danger. You cannot control the cubs, but they waddle alongside you, and it is up to you protect them from dangers such as wildfires, starvation, raging rivers and other predators. Continue reading
Come Mr. Talion, Tally Me Banana
You know the old saying: One does not simply walk into Mordor.
…Unless your name is Talion and you’re a ranger on a revenge kick and have a powerful elf wraith by your side.
Click here for my review of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, written for Short Game Review.
Take me out, to the Black…
It’s been over ten years since that little gem of a show Firefly came to an abrupt end on television, and given its place in geekdom it’s surprising nobody’s made a video game about it yet… until now. Continue reading
Ruh-roh.
Click here for my review of an oldie but a goodie: Halo 3: ODST. This review was written for Short Game Review.
Mozilla announced today that they are teaming up with Humble Bundle to bring some Indie game favorites–Including Subset Games’ FTL: Faster Than Light–directly to Firefox without the need for downloading or installing the games or any plugins on your computer.
As per standard Humble Bundle practice, the first five games (Super Hexagon, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome, Osmos, Zen Bound 2, and Dustforce DX) can cost you whatever you want. The next two (Voxatron and FTL: Faster Than Light) can be had if you beat the average price ($4.31 at the time of writing this) for the bundle. You can pay $8 or more to receive all of the above, plus the last game, Democracy 3.
Previously, all of these indie games were available only on PC or mobile. Now they all work in browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux without having to install any plugins. Mozilla states that they “all make use of Mozilla-pioneered asm.js and the other powerful technologies that make plugin-free gaming possible on the Web, allowing users to jump right into the action from just clicking a link”. There’s also cloud syncing so you can save your game and continue playing from any computer.
One great thing about Humble Bundle is their business model: By packaging them in bundles and having users pay whatever amount they think it is worth, games are much more accessible to users. Users can also specify how much of that payment goes to the game developer or to a nonprofit organization. The Humble Mozilla Bundle supports the Mozilla Foundation, CodeNow, and the Maker Education Initiative. So far, Humble Bundle and its users have contributed more than $47 million to more than 30 different charities and nonprofit organizations.
What’s even cooler is that Mozilla worked with Lexaloffe Games to make the default Firefox home page a playable version of Voxatron, so you can try before you buy:
As with most Humble Bundle offers, they won’t last long. This one will be around for two weeks, or until October 28 (at 11:00 a.m. Pacific). Click here to get it before it’s gone.
Cover art for DC/Vertigo’s The Wolf Among Us comic
A video game based on a comic is going to be made into… well, a comic.
At New York Comic Con today, DC announced that they were producing The Wolf Among Us as their first Vertigo digital title. Vertigo’s official information on the release is as follows:
The first-ever Digital First Vertigo title will be FABLES: THE WOLF AMONG US, based on the critically-acclaimed episodic game series from Telltale Games licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The story will be written by Matthew Sturges and Dave Justus with art by Steve Sadowski, Travis Moore, and Shawn McManus. The cover artist for the series is Chrissie Zullo. FABLES: THE WOLF AMONG US will be a weekly Digital First series and is set to debut in December 2014 with print collections to follow in 2015.
Although it is based in the Fables world, the events in Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us take place before those in the book, so it won’t be exactly a rehash of the existing comic series. It’ll be interesting to see how the choices that the player makes in the game translates into a comic (unless, of course, it was in Choose your own Adventure format).
Click here for my review of the 2D psychological horror empathy game, Neverending Nightmares. This review was written for Short Game Review.
Click here for my review of the 3D puzzle game, The Room Two. This review was written for Short Game Review.
So much boobage.
Click here for my review of Amazing Princess Sarah, a Metroidvania-style 2D platformer.
This review was originally written for Short Game Review.
Click here to read my review of the zombie apocalypse management sim, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, written for Short Game Review.
Mouse Smash 