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In the tradition of quality city building video games, Cities: Skylines by Colossal Order delivers an engaging experience that lets you build and maintain a virtual city from scratch. Arguably, it’s similar to the famed SimCity game which dominated the city building video game genre for some time, but some gamers suggest that Cities: Skylines

Eugen Systems has just released its Act of Aggression pre-alpha PC gameplay trailer on YouTube, and a surge of excitement has already built up for this upcoming game across the RTS community. Even though the preview video is just a short teaser trailer for now, Eugen Systems has been consistently touting that Act of Aggression

While many aspects of the Dead or Alive series would give a psychologist plenty of fodder to analyze (for instance, the inexplicable meshing of violence and sexuality is primitively animalistic in character) in the end it remains one of the more prominent fighting series.   The reasons for this are numerous, of course – there’s the

The Total war franchise has been going steady for fifteen years now. The first two entries were fairly popular with a unique blend of an overhead campaign map strategy game that zoomed in whenever your armies fought a battle and changed the game from empire management to being a general, and back again. I played

The First-person-shooter genre is one of the most popular, and we’ve become accustomed to receiving a yearly release from both the Battlefield and Call of Duty franchises. Both of these juggernaut series started out with the theme of WW2 with Battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty. One of my favourite experiences was with Call of

The critical and commercial success enjoyed by Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic adventure The Last of Us shows that plenty of gamers are interested in dark, survival-themed videogames set in bleak places and times, and which often place a human face – an ugly and primal one – on the horror they convey. But while The Last

From weird little shooters to survival horror strategy and adventure RPG’s, March of 2015 is shaping up to be an interesting month for current (8th) generation gamers.   This isn’t just a notable period for PlayStation 4 gamers though, it is also just as equally appealing for Microsoft and the Xbox One crowd.   Anyway, without further

Whether or not you are a bona-fide Nintendo fan is one thing, but the overall fun factor associated with the Wii U cannot be denied.   There’s a certain sense of flavor that this console gives off which, along with all its unique games, is basically without precedent in the gaming industry at large.   Sure, some

They’re simultaneously the source of all our gaming glory and woes, our light as well as darkness……we’re speaking of course about exclusive releases.   Regardless of the fact that we now have very powerful gaming consoles available with all sorts of cross-platform AAA-tiered releases, the truth is that exclusives still drive the market. Companies like Sony

Armed with a sizable map, great graphics and more of the same sort of grotesque horror-filled bloodsports found in titles such as Dead Island, Dying Light manages to be exactly the sort of zombie experience most gamers were expecting (for the season). Basically, it manages to squeeze in a number of emergent elements in terms

Can you name a bad console that has sold well? I can’t. I can think of a great one that is selling amazingly well, though. An awesome console, with brilliant games, and the other essentials, is what gamers are attracted to… It’s that very recipe that’s made the PS, PS2, XBOX and XBOX 360 so