Ryan “Purple” Murphy-Root is determined to be king. But until that day, he’s content to play the jester. “40 years from now,” Murphy-Root explains, “when I tell my grandkids what I did when I was in my 20s, if I said, ‘I was like the 7th best player in the world,’ they’d say, ‘What the […]

It is a universal truth that any game, of any genre, can be improved by the addition of a card battle system—and hey, maybe a tactical grid for good measure.

Plenty of games let you play a survivor in a zombie apocalypse, and they are ever so satisfying. You can avoid all the typical zombie-flick screw-ups, such as splitting from the group, wasting ammo and, of course, getting trapped in a corner. Zombie Night Terror takes the less common approach and lets you control the […]

You know that feeling. You just got through upgrading crop rotation and gold mining in Age of Empires II when a pack of Teutons crests over the hill and wipes you out.

When Magic: The Gathering pioneered the trading card game genre more than 20 years ago, it got a shocking number of things right. Its living legacy is enormous. However, games that followed, such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, SolForge, Lords of Vermillion and Hearthstone, all proved you could do more than iterate on the originator. Spellweaver doesn’t […]

Albino Lullaby is different from other horror games. Most obviously, it’s marketed as avoiding cheap gore and jump scares—but the difference is deeper than that. In most horror media, something terribly wrong has breached our everyday lives; a killer is in our home, zombies walk the streets, etc. But in Albino Lullaby, we are the […]

Treachery is hot right now. From party games like Resistance and Saboteur, to video games like Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Danganronpa, players have really embraced the surprise and satisfaction of the “find the traitor” experience. Yes, Lost Dimension is landing in fertile soil. The game is a tactical RPG dungeon crawler, following […]

If you just realized you left your curling iron on, feel free to step away from this review with a pretty solid idea of what Block N Load feels and plays like. It’s a simple concept but a joy to see in action. And while Block N Load doesn’t do everything it could, the execution […]

With its large, vibrant and increasingly wealthy and learned population, Brazil may soon be a wellspring of great games. But that’s mostly a dream at the moment: as it stands, the nation has very, very few developers. One of them is fledgling indie studio Swordtales. Its website proudly states, “We believe that the dream of […]

The G20 is a small-form-factor desktop computer, designed to occupy less space than your typical tower and be far more portable.