To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t initially excited to play Final Fantasy XV. As a longtime fan of the Final Fantasy series who has played and completed every single core title and many of the secondary titles since its inception, I felt almost obligated to play this side story-turned main title. Final Fantasy XV was…
Greetings Fellow Nerds! Welcome to the newly-revamped GamerZone column, a monthly installment where we will be showcasing and reviewing many different great games out there! For the relauinch, we’ve got a bit of a bonus (as in, yes, there will be TWO this first month!) with a special retro-review of Telltale Games’ Back to the…
As I started my research for this piece, I realized something VERY quickly. There are a lot of RPGs out there and as I read deeper, it occurred to me that technically speaking, EVERY video game is (in a way) a role playing game. You assume control of a character and use them to collect…
Welcome to No Man’s Sky, the largest game universe ever created! So what is No Man’s Sky you ask? It’s a first person ‘shooter style’ game built upon predominately exploration and survival that is so massive that, according to it’s creators, would take you roughly 5 billion years to explore every inch of the game.…
Studio Wildcard has finally brought gamers something that they’ve been asking about for years. A survival dinosaur MMORPG that entangles hunting, taming, and breeding primeval creatures. Although still in its beta stage, ARK: Survival Evolved is planned to be fully released June of this year. The name of the world is ARK, a collection of…
2k Sports returns alongside developer Yukes with WWE 2K16, its latest effort into the complicated world of pro wrestling, and its major leagues: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Wrestling fandom is a very odd beast, perhaps even the oddest of all fandoms. At least most of the time, for most people, you either love it or…
Probably the single most anticipated video game release of 2015, Fallout 4 – the latest in the insanely popular post-apocalyptic RPG series from Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks is officially here. Following its Game of the Year winning predecessors Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, a massive fan following, and more hype than has been seen…
Although not a new game by any stretch of the imagination, Tomb Raider is something of a timeless title in the realm of gaming. This particular incarnation of Tomb Raider (which is the fourth TR title, and first in the new continuity) was originally released in 2013 for PS3, Xbox 360, Windows, and OSX to…
Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros. return with their fourth (main) installment in the highly popular “Batman: Arkham” series. But how did the game stack up against its predecessors? Read on to find out!
Paizo Publishing returns with PATHFINDER: UNCHAINED, a new alternate rules set to the PATHFINDER RPG. out now everywhere TTRPGs are sold. Before we begin, Full Disclosure: I love alternate rules sets. I’m a GM, and a systems guy. Not only do alternate rules give a GM new options for running their games, they also give…
