Every day was a blessing, every night was a gamble. Night is when the enemies come. Undead throw themselves mindlessly against your defenses, dragons fly right over them. Mysterious travelers promise you rare artifacts — for the right price — and thieves steal supplies in…

What were you doing in the latter years of grade school? Perfecting your cursive? Learning about the Boston Tea Party? Throwing acorns at girls on the playground because you were scared you liked them and didn’t know how to express your feelings or emotions so…

Anyone who played a game from The Witcher series knows that it’s never light on the creepiness factor. Fortunately, or unfortunately if you’re looking for a good night’s sleep, the comic book series The Witcher: House of Glass continues the spooky tradition of the video…

Wizards Tourney is an upcoming game from Spanish game development company a bonfire of souls. How grim. The game features a dozen wizards from all around the world competing in a tournament to prove whose wand is the biggest, so to speak. This involves various…

Before the Storm, the latest World of Warcraft novel by Christie Golden, isn’t crucial Warcraft reading. However, that should not stop you from reading it. The book is set during a moment in time that has already passed in the World of Warcraft universe. If…

Ori and the Blind Forest was a game I wanted to play from the moment I saw the trailer. Between the wonderful audio/video presentation and the exciting-looking gameplay, the game has been a large, glowing blip on my radar since 2015 when the game originally…

Nonstop Knight (free-to-play, Android and iOS) is a race to the never-end. The quest to vanquish evil never stops, and neither does the game. It’s half endless runner, half idle RPG and I can’t get enough of it. It’s incredibly rare for an iOS game…

In late 2017, I had the pleasure of venturing into the world of Hand of Fate 2 to review it on the PC for its original release. Defiant Development crafted an excellent fantasy adventure game that is part hack-and-slash action game and part card-based roguelike.…

My earliest days gaming were spent playing colorful platformers on my Super Nintendo and Game Boy Color. Because of my gaming heritage, I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for pixelated platformers. It’s a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that I…

Thanks to Disney, many of us have a general understanding of the themes permeating the centuries-old One Thousand and One Nights (commonly known as the Arabian Nights stories) that is a staple of Middle Eastern folklore. Genies grant wishes, thieves get their hands chopped off (or…