Role-players looking to spice up their character creation or game masters who need a better cast of NPC heroes and villains should look no further than The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide, a funny workbook that could become an invaluable tool for good gaming.
It took Todd a long time to review Prey: Mooncrash, one of the most challenging but also rewarding DLCs to come out for a core game in a long time. Come see why this is one DLC that is practically required playing if you dare to brave the core Prey game.
The Time Waster this week is a game called Vroom Kaboom that takes a shot at mixing tower defense and card battles together.
We Happy Few is one of the most unique adventure games ever created. Set in an alternative history where Germany conquered England and then left again, the 1960’s happy façade is easily cracked, revealing some terribly dark elements just below the surface.
Bill Jackson will be reviewing a series of classic books for GiN over the next few weeks. This week, he tackles the beginning of almost every fantasy adventure tale, and one of the best ever written. It’s J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth sagas. Do we have to really say how many videogames have been influenced by this?
If you were hoping that Destiny 2: Forsaken could rekindle some of the amazing glory of the original game, then you are in luck. Almost everything about Forsaken is done right, and that includes the new Gambit gameplay mode, which is insanely fun to play.
This week’s Time Waster is all about a demake named Bio Evil 4 and you only get one guess as to what game it’s a demake of.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is easily in the running for RPG Game of the Year. And now the deadly seas expand to include the Beast of Winter DLC, set on a mysterious expanding iceberg where death literally awaits high-level players.
Bill Jackson will be reviewing a series of classic books for GiN over the next few weeks. This week, the Cryptonomicon comes to light, and woe be to us all! If you want to know how the modern techno thriller got its start, crack open the pages of this vile and delightful tome.
The Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars DLC does a lot of cool things, like reducing gravity to support monster jumps, and introducing laser type weapons to help you thwart an alien invasion. Unfortunately, the gameplay doesn’t quite live up to its other set pieces.
