I’ve had a love/hate relationship with arcade space shooters since the early 80’s; long before the term “bullet-hell” was even a thing. Over the years the games have gotten tougher and my skills and reflexes have lessened; thu...
When it comes to PlayStation, I’ve found that I’ve become accustomed to a multitude of ports over the years. While many are mainstream staples that make their usual appearance, I like to be surprised with the ones that I never ...
Space Invaders Is easily one of the most recognizable properties in videogames. Young or old, gamer or non-gamer, chances are that if you show someone one of the alien shapes, they will know the game that they belong to. It’s n...
When I think of roguelike games, the first thing that usually springs to mind is a pixelated side-scrolling platformer with a cutesy aesthetic that hides a punishing difficulty. I don’t often jump to an image of a cyberpunk wor...
The oddly named I, AI is the latest vertically-scrolling space shooter from Satur Entertainment. The name references the game’s Terminator-esque storyline in which a military AI suddenly becomes self-aware, and realizing its n...
Scrolling space shooters have been one of my guilty pleasures since my arcade days back in the 80’s, and thankfully there is no shortage of them today on both consoles and PC. I, AI is the latest offering to the genre, origina...
Soccer Adventures is a quirky little indie game; one with very little soccer and even less adventure yet somehow manages to still earn its name. In a game that perpetuates the ongoing clash of American football vs. soccer we m...
G.I. Joe Operation Blackout is a two-fer walk down nostalgia lane. Not only does the subject matter hearken back to my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s, but the gameplay itself is straight out of the late-PS2/early-PS3 era of gam...
Rez Infinite was originally released for VR in 2016 on PC and Google Daydream. Originally, Rez was a game created for PlayStation 2 and Sega Dreamcast and released in 2001. Now, it is being released as a launch title for the Oc...