This is a title I am really looking forward to, and have been since it was first announced. Re;Birth1 was a great new take on the original title, and I am holding out similar hopes for the upcoming Re;Birth 2 as well.
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Our take on some of the scariest games ever - Gaming Thoughts
Every year around this time, gamers have a tendency to look back at the titles that scared them the most. Which games provided our team the most thrills and chills? This is an amusing topic for me in particular, because I absolutely love the genre. Turns out that is not the...
Samurai Warriors 4 - PS4 Review
I’ve been playing Dynasty Warriors for a long time between the main
series, the Gundam spin-offs, and now the more recent Hyrule Warriors.
Until last week however, I had never actually played any iteration of
the Samurai Warriors and the only thing I can say to myself now...
Rainbow Skies gets a new trailer, some new images
Rainbow Moon was a delightful little grind-fest of a strategy/RPG game, and the upcoming Rainbow Skies has been on our radar ever since it was announced. Now we get a look at some new assets for the upcoming title by Eastasiasoft....
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Xbox One Review
Grizzled ex-cop. Murdered wife. The murder is tied to the newest street drug. At times, the drug is described as having “divine” connections. Law enforcement may not be trustworthy. Our protagonist’s two main hobbies seem to be drinking and moping. ...
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut - PS4 Review
Not every game needs incredibly detailed, grizzly graphics and the latest in surround sound to pull off a proper scare. Sometimes it just needs to play some mind games with you instead. In truth, this is often the most important part of any good horror movie or game. Shock value...
Fractured Space brings tactical space combat to the PC
The creators of Strike Suit Zero have a different kind of space-based game in mind now. They formed Edge Case Games and plan to focus on team-based online space battles with this upcoming release.
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Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle - 3DS Review
I really wanted to like Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle, since I tend to gravitate towards almost any kind of anime regardless of the age group it is designed for. The anime is geared towards younger viewers (probably closer to my sister's age and she is twelve), but there was...
Styx: Master of Shadows - PS4 Review
Today ladies and gentlemen, we are going to talk about patience. Patience is, to some, is a virtue. It is something to be upheld above all else when dealing with someone, or something that can seem to be aggravating. Apparently I have none when it comes to true stealth. Which...
Silence - The Whispered World 2 coming to Xbox One
Simply put, Daedalic Entertainment has long been one of our favorite development teams around here, and their Whispered World was a title we absolutely adored. Therefore, this is a fun announcement for us....
Endless Legend - PC Review
In mid-August I had the pleasure of getting my hands on a preview of Endless Legend and as I mentioned, I was very excited; after all Amplitude Studios is the development team behind one of my favorite 4X games, Endless Space. Some months ago when I heard they were doing a fantasy-based...
Sunset Overdrive - Xbox One Review
There is a lot going on in Sunset Overdrive at any given time. Lots of places to go, lots of bad guys to kill and lots of ways to do it. There is a bright edginess to the gameplay that immediately worked for me, because Sunset Overdrive is attempting to do something different....
Senran Kagura Bon Appetit has a release date
This afternoon we took a look at Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus on the Vita, and now it looks like another title in the Senran Kagura series is going to be coming out soon as well.
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Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus - Vita Review
Do you like fighting? Do you enjoy lots of anime-style fan service? If you are willing to check your need for logical storytelling at the door, there is a lot to like about Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, which is fun despite a ridiculous story and lack of clothing on the female...
Orbital Gear - PC Review
Gravity. Sure, it’s that handy physical law that keeps us from drifting out into the bleakness of space. But it makes for a some really fun mechanic in a wide variety of games. Whether it is a simple ragdoll tumbling down a hill in a FPS, a simple Flash golf game, or one of...
Garruk's Revenge coming to Magic 2015
We had a chance to review Magic 2015 earlier this year when it released, and while it disappointed on some fronts, it did some things (deck building in particular) quite well. Now the first expansion is set to release on November 5th.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Hoard of the Shadow Queen - Tabletop and Board Games Review
This 96 page hardcover book stands as a module for delving deeper into the newest edition of Dungeons & Dragons. It is geared for roughly four players and can see them all of the way through level seven starting off as new adventurers. I already had a chance to take a look...
Ancient Space - PC Review
My first introduction to true space-based realtime strategy came near the end of 1999, roughly 18 months after the release of Starcraft which had been dominating my RTS time back then. When I first caught wind of a new title by Relic and Sierra I was fully in the grips of space-based...
Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is set to arrive in December
We have been following Guilty Gear Xrd for a while now, and now that the game has a release date and some more information, it looks like we will be seeing it sooner than expected. On top of that, Aksys has announced their pre-order bonus.
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Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual - Tabletop and Board Games Review
For me, nothing screams Dungeons & Dragons more than the Monster Manual. This is my favorite book with pretty much every edition that comes out, and that holds true so far with this fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons as well. There are so many different things that...
Styx: Master of Shadows - Xbox One Review
Like the rest of the gaming community, I first heard about Styx: Master of Shadows at E3 this past year. I honestly did not know what to think of Styx outside of the fact that I was super interested in the fact that you play as an ugly little goblin and not some shiningly perfect...
Lords of the Fallen Dev Diary
With Lords of the Fallen right around the corner (releasing on October 28th), we are happy to share some press information, assets and a brand new dev diary that was released today. Take a look!
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Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook - Tabletop and Board Games Review
Most of the books found in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is geared towards the DM. The man behind the curtain/tabletop screen may be akin to the great and powerful Oz, but in truth the players are really the driving force to a good tabletop session. This is a hardcover...
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog Joystick - Hardware Review
I am a longtime fan of flight simulators and space-based simulators and since the old days of Flight Simulator 2004 where I picked up a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback flight stick I have been hooked on the use of a flight stick. As the years went on I became more...
Ubisoft announces Tetris Ultimate release date
We took a couple of looks at Tetris Ultimate over the summer (here and here), and now Ubisoft has given us pricing and an official release date - and it is a bit closer than perhaps expected.
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Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set - Tabletop and Board Games Review
Few brands evoke the images that Dungeons & Dragons has over the years. I have always thought of Dungeons & Dragons as a toolbox. It gives structure to a story, and an opportunity for people to roleplay and add their own personalities or imaginations to the outcome....
Lords of the Black Sun - PC Review
When I first previewed Lords of the Black Sun I was unsure of what it would turn out to be; was it going to be just a clone of Endless Space? Or was it going to try to reimagine the 4X genre the way that Sins of a Solar Empire did all those years ago? What was it that Lords...
Deathtrap Early Access starts soon
Deathtrap was a title we took note of when it was announced, and with new screens and information, the wait for Early Access is nearly at an end.
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Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - PS3 Review
Ar nosurge: Ode to An Unborn Star is a continuation of a PlayStation Vita title called Surge Concerto: Ciel nosurge which was a life simulation game that has not seen a release outside of Japan (yet), and something of a pseudo-prequel to the Ar Tonelico series that is also developed...
Madden 15 - Xbox One Review
Madden, like the sport it emulates, is a cyclical thing. Year after year teams trot out some changes (rosters, game plans or coaches) in hopes of achieving a better result that the prior year. Most of the time the teams are not dramatically different, and in the end fans still...
The Hero of Thedas - Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer
We are huge fans of Bioware in general and Dragon Age in particular. There are a few members of the team here who consider Dragon Age: Inquisition as one of their most anticipated titles of 2014 and this latest trailer serves as a nice teaser until then.
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Starpoint Gemini 2 - PC Review
I recently had the pleasure of not only reviewing the original Starpoint Gemini, which I enjoyed well enough given some of its shortcomings, but I was able to go about previewing Starpoint Gemini 2 as it enjoyed Early Access on Steam. From early impressions I could tell that...
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Ivory King - PC DLC Review
While each of the different episodes in The Lost Crowns DLC have each brought in their own unique hollows, Crown of the Ivory King has added more than the others, with the new Rampart soldiers and the horribly annoying and frustrating Rampart Hedgehog, being just a few of the...
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart announced
Noire is probably my favorite of the Hyperdimension characters, and she is leading the way in a new strategy-RPG coming out next year. Here is the press release and some images to go with it:
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Kingston HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset - Hardware Review
When I received a press release regarding the Kingston HyperX Cloud headset I was immediately intrigued. Here is a company that I have used for years for solid state drives, RAM, and thumb drives and now, with their HyperX line they were breaking into the gaming and high...
SteelSeries Siberia Elite Prism Gaming Headset - Hardware Review
I recently reviewed the SteelSeries Siberia Elite Anniversary Edition here at Chalgyr's Game Room and it was one of, if not the first review to score a perfect 10. Given the range of games that we have covered over the last four or five years you would think that we would have...
A minor change in Destiny could be a sign of major things to come - Gaming Thoughts
While Destiny has come under a good deal of fire for a variety of things, it is nice to see that Bungie has been doing several things right since its release. Primarily this has come in the form of behind the scenes work such as tweaking weapons or shutting down the infamous...
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut - PC Review
I was first introduced to the Shadowrun universe back in the mid 90's when I rented Shadowrun for the Super Nintendo; truthfully I was only half-interested in the game. While I am a big fan of isometric role-playing games, I had not quite developed a taste for them yet, as I...
Sacred 3 - PS3 Review
Sacred is a game that comes with a lot of history behind it. I had originally picked up Scared off a shelf at a now very long defunct computer store that we used to have which carried the obscure games as if they were the norm. I liked the way Sacred looked, and to this day...
Evolve alpha access opportunity
Evolve has been one of the more talked about games over the last several months, and 2K Games is giving players a chance to get a very early look at the title.
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Stronghold Crusader 2 - PC Review
I was first introduced to the "castle sim" genre of gameplay with Firefly Studio's 2001 game, Stronghold. At the time the real-time strategy genre was all over the place; from fantasy based games like the Warcraft franchise to unique spins like Tzar: The Burden of the Crown,...
How I found myself playing World of Warcraft... again - Gaming Thoughts
I never really planned on playing World of Warcraft again. Recently however, Blizzard ran a promotion that proved to be the final hook in getting me to recreate some characters and play again for the first time in years. There were some other factors as well, including friends...
New screens and a date for Pheonix Wright this winter
With some new screens and specific information about the titles, the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy looks to sneak in just before Christmas.
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Meridian: New World - PC Review
I mentioned this when I first previewed Meridian: New World; I love real-time strategy games. As PC gaming grew, the real-time strategy and roleplaying genres were the genres to play. If you were not a part of the Command & Conquer, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Advanced D&D...
Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition - PS4 Review
Diablo was a title that fathered an entire genre of gaming with series such as Sacred, Van Helsing, the homage that are Torchlight/Torchlight 2, and continues to evolve to this day even within its own sequels. Diablo III came out years ago for the PC and once again the console...
