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Award-Winning Game ‘Little Orpheus’ To Be Unleashed This March

The Chinese Room and publishers Secret Mode announced today that the multi-award-winning game Little Orpheus is coming to consoles and PC on March 1, 2022. Players can experience this technicolor side-scrolling adventure on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Nintendo Switch. “The year is 1962 and NASA is trying to put a man on the moon. In a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Comrade Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the center of the Earth. He promptly vanishes. Three years later he emerges claiming to have saved the world. Join Comrade Ivanovich as he explores lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, prehistoric jungles, and lands beyond imagination. Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling adventure game for casual players and seasoned adventure fans alike, inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad, and The Land that Time Forgot.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 25, 2022

Game Review: ‘S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored’

Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jan 14, 2022

Game Review: ‘The Gunk’

Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 16, 2021

Game Review: ‘Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Fatesworn’

THQ Nordic yesterday released a large expansion to their RPG adventure Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. This DLC titled Fatesworn continues the story after the events of the game’s main story set years later with the god of chaos Telogrus awakening and wishing to bring chaos to the world of Amalur, not wanting to see your hard work of bringing peace back to the land, you again set out to put this god in his place! There’s really not much I can say without spoiling the story, but when it comes to the game itself, you can refer to my previous review of the main game HERE as pretty much the game’s controls, graphics, and sound are no different now as they were previously BUT I will say the map has improved where the minimap is no longer locked in place (you can change that in the options if this option was always there I’ll admit I missed that!). What I

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 15, 2021

‘Aliens: Fireteam Elite’ Season 2 Coming Soon!

Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment‘s co-op survival shooter set in the “Alien” universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite will be releasing its second season full of free new content to players this month full of new weapons, weapon attachments, and cosmetics. Along with the new items comes a new game mode that will challenge players. The new game mode titled Point Defense will challenge players to protect, repair, and hold three strategic points while fighting off waves of Xenomorphs. Along with the new game mode and weapons/attachments will come new challenge cards, and lifetime stats. Coinciding with the release of Season 2, the second Endeavor Pass DLC Pack (the Nostromo Salvage Pack) will also be available. This pack includes over 20 exclusive items, including two Nostromo-themed class kit skin designs, eight weapon colors, four decals, four head accessories, four emotes, and more! Aliens: Fireteam Elite season 2 will drop on December 14th for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 1, 2021

Game Review: ‘Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water’

When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Nov 22, 2021

‘Happy’s Humble Burger Farm’ Serves Up Horror In December

Scythe and Tiny Build wants to make the horrors of working in fast food more terrifying in their upcoming first-person horror Happy’s Humble Burger Farm where players will work their shift in a food cooking simulator that combines horror elements as they must keep the customers happy or else face the wrath of the restaurant’s mascot Happy. Along with working your shift, players will encounter paranormal events that can affect their minds, as well as their work performance. Along with working their shift, players can explore the city that the restaurant is in to unlock the secrets about the not-so-happy food chain, as well as the player’s own mysterious story by collecting items found in the environment. Happy’s Humble Burger Farm will be serving up the horror on December 3rd for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, with Nintendo Switch joining in the scares in 2022.

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Joseph Perry
Nov 22, 2021

Game Review: ‘Crysis Remastered Trilogy’

When it comes to first-person shooters, you have over-the-top games and ones that fly under the radar (for good reasons) and then you have some that capture the old-school FPS feel that’s slowly going away in the industry, “Crysis” is the latter and in its own right has become a cult classic for keeping true to what FPS games are and thankfully with the market getting flooded with many FPS single-player games starting to focus more on online battle royal style gaming that’s coming out this year thankfully Crytek and Saber Interactive have brought “Crysis” back, not just the first game but the entire trilogy! A big thank you to Crytek and Saber Interactive for the opportunity to check out the Crysis Remastered Trilogy that brings all three games back and in HD. for those not familiar with the game series, Crysis centers around the player playing as a soldier wearing a Nanosuit that allows them to cloak, build impenetrable

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

If ‘FallOut’ And ‘Metro’ Had A Baby: Game Review Of ‘Chernobylite’

The Farm 51 and All in! Games were awesome enough to allow me the chance to explore the decaying ruins of Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Chernobylite, an FPS survival game that takes players to the most radiated zone in the world. In Chernobylite players take on the role of Igor, a Ukrainian physicist, who worked at Chernobyl doing research involving interdimensional travel along with his fiancé who went missing during the meltdown of the power plant. After the disaster, a new element was made that Igor is studying called Chernobylite that also has attracted the attention of the NAR who have taken over the wasteland. Along with the human threat, there are now also mysterious creatures that thanks to the Chernobylite, have traverse dimensions and now stalk the wasteland. Now onto the game itself! Once you get the game starting players will have to adjust the sensitivity as I noticed at the start I turn too slow,

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 28, 2021
Horror Fuel

Game Review: ‘World War Z: Aftermath’

It’s no secret, people like to kill zombies, but how would they fair staring down a massive hoard of them barreling towards them like a tsunami of bloody flesh and nightmare fuel? Well, now you can in World War Z: Aftermath. A big thanks to Saber Interactive for the opportunity to try out this game! The game takes place in the same universe as Paramount Picture’s film World War Z where players team up to survive the massive hoard of zombies. It should be noted that World War Z: Aftermath is an addition to the main game and not a standalone story. Aftermath features new characters and two new levels, Rome and Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. The biggest addition to the game is the option to have the game in First-Person, which added a whole new dynamic to the intensity of the game. I have not played the game before now and after a few hours going solo with AI teammates;

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 21, 2021

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Award-Winning Game ‘Little Orpheus’ To Be Unleashed This March

The Chinese Room and publishers Secret Mode announced today that the multi-award-winning game Little Orpheus is coming to consoles and PC on March 1, 2022. Players can experience this technicolor side-scrolling adventure on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Nintendo Switch. “The year is 1962 and NASA is trying to put a man on the moon. In a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Comrade Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the center of the Earth. He promptly vanishes. Three years later he emerges claiming to have saved the world. Join Comrade Ivanovich as he explores lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, prehistoric jungles, and lands beyond imagination. Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling adventure game for casual players and seasoned adventure fans alike, inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad, and The Land that Time Forgot.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 25, 2022

Game Review: ‘S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored’

Again I find myself exploring the radioactive nightmare that is Chernobyl, but this time I’m exploring the fictional S.W.A.N. Institute in this psychological horror S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored. I want to give a thank you to Volframe and Art Games Studio S.A. for the review opportunity! S.W.A.N. Chernobyl Unexplored takes players back to the exclusion zone 9 months after the nuclear meltdown and evacuations after signs of life were detected at the S.W.A.N. (Syndromes Without A Name) Institute. Players are part of a rescue team sent in but soon after arriving, all members of the team are separated and we are forced to explore the institute and all its puzzles and nightmarish creatures alone. Onto the game itself! This is a first-person puzzle exploring game and right away if you’re wondering, yeah it’s, unfortunately, following the same formula of other first-person psychological horrors where the scenery changes when you turn corners, open doors that lead nowhere, and when you turn around

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jan 14, 2022

Game Review: ‘The Gunk’

Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk. The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 16, 2021

Game Review: ‘Kingdoms Of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Fatesworn’

THQ Nordic yesterday released a large expansion to their RPG adventure Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. This DLC titled Fatesworn continues the story after the events of the game’s main story set years later with the god of chaos Telogrus awakening and wishing to bring chaos to the world of Amalur, not wanting to see your hard work of bringing peace back to the land, you again set out to put this god in his place! There’s really not much I can say without spoiling the story, but when it comes to the game itself, you can refer to my previous review of the main game HERE as pretty much the game’s controls, graphics, and sound are no different now as they were previously BUT I will say the map has improved where the minimap is no longer locked in place (you can change that in the options if this option was always there I’ll admit I missed that!). What I

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 15, 2021

‘Aliens: Fireteam Elite’ Season 2 Coming Soon!

Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment‘s co-op survival shooter set in the “Alien” universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite will be releasing its second season full of free new content to players this month full of new weapons, weapon attachments, and cosmetics. Along with the new items comes a new game mode that will challenge players. The new game mode titled Point Defense will challenge players to protect, repair, and hold three strategic points while fighting off waves of Xenomorphs. Along with the new game mode and weapons/attachments will come new challenge cards, and lifetime stats. Coinciding with the release of Season 2, the second Endeavor Pass DLC Pack (the Nostromo Salvage Pack) will also be available. This pack includes over 20 exclusive items, including two Nostromo-themed class kit skin designs, eight weapon colors, four decals, four head accessories, four emotes, and more! Aliens: Fireteam Elite season 2 will drop on December 14th for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Dec 1, 2021

Game Review: ‘Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water’

When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Nov 22, 2021

‘Happy’s Humble Burger Farm’ Serves Up Horror In December

Scythe and Tiny Build wants to make the horrors of working in fast food more terrifying in their upcoming first-person horror Happy’s Humble Burger Farm where players will work their shift in a food cooking simulator that combines horror elements as they must keep the customers happy or else face the wrath of the restaurant’s mascot Happy. Along with working your shift, players will encounter paranormal events that can affect their minds, as well as their work performance. Along with working their shift, players can explore the city that the restaurant is in to unlock the secrets about the not-so-happy food chain, as well as the player’s own mysterious story by collecting items found in the environment. Happy’s Humble Burger Farm will be serving up the horror on December 3rd for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, with Nintendo Switch joining in the scares in 2022.

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Nov 22, 2021

Game Review: ‘Crysis Remastered Trilogy’

When it comes to first-person shooters, you have over-the-top games and ones that fly under the radar (for good reasons) and then you have some that capture the old-school FPS feel that’s slowly going away in the industry, “Crysis” is the latter and in its own right has become a cult classic for keeping true to what FPS games are and thankfully with the market getting flooded with many FPS single-player games starting to focus more on online battle royal style gaming that’s coming out this year thankfully Crytek and Saber Interactive have brought “Crysis” back, not just the first game but the entire trilogy! A big thank you to Crytek and Saber Interactive for the opportunity to check out the Crysis Remastered Trilogy that brings all three games back and in HD. for those not familiar with the game series, Crysis centers around the player playing as a soldier wearing a Nanosuit that allows them to cloak, build impenetrable

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

If ‘FallOut’ And ‘Metro’ Had A Baby: Game Review Of ‘Chernobylite’

The Farm 51 and All in! Games were awesome enough to allow me the chance to explore the decaying ruins of Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Chernobylite, an FPS survival game that takes players to the most radiated zone in the world. In Chernobylite players take on the role of Igor, a Ukrainian physicist, who worked at Chernobyl doing research involving interdimensional travel along with his fiancé who went missing during the meltdown of the power plant. After the disaster, a new element was made that Igor is studying called Chernobylite that also has attracted the attention of the NAR who have taken over the wasteland. Along with the human threat, there are now also mysterious creatures that thanks to the Chernobylite, have traverse dimensions and now stalk the wasteland. Now onto the game itself! Once you get the game starting players will have to adjust the sensitivity as I noticed at the start I turn too slow,

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 28, 2021
Horror Fuel

Game Review: ‘World War Z: Aftermath’

It’s no secret, people like to kill zombies, but how would they fair staring down a massive hoard of them barreling towards them like a tsunami of bloody flesh and nightmare fuel? Well, now you can in World War Z: Aftermath. A big thanks to Saber Interactive for the opportunity to try out this game! The game takes place in the same universe as Paramount Picture’s film World War Z where players team up to survive the massive hoard of zombies. It should be noted that World War Z: Aftermath is an addition to the main game and not a standalone story. Aftermath features new characters and two new levels, Rome and Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. The biggest addition to the game is the option to have the game in First-Person, which added a whole new dynamic to the intensity of the game. I have not played the game before now and after a few hours going solo with AI teammates;

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 21, 2021
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