Desdaemona is the first entry in a new urban fantasy series. It offers an interesting environment and some scary scenes, but hasn’t yet found a way to break out of an increasingly crowded genre. Then again, perhaps it’s just getting started.
Beholder tells the tale of a society whose paranoid government has gone out of control. As an appointed snitch and landlord, you must spy on and report your neighbors for every minor infraction, or find a way to somehow walk a different path.
This week out Time Waster is lost in Red’s Kingdom trying to find his missing nuts after they were stolen by an evil king.
Eon Altar attempts to recreate the old tabletop RPG experience, only instead of gathering around a big table, you can lounge in your living room while everyone experiences the game through their smartphones and tablets. It offers a unique, if slightly odd-at-first, gaming experience.
HALO: Smoke and Shadow is not so much a typical HALO novel as a fast paced, nova hot novella. Instead of looking at soldiers, this tale is all about interstellar salvagers who go into war zones looking for profit.
Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood by Lara Parker is a fun novel that follows the cult-hit TV show from about 40 years ago. Told here with a bit of a modern twist, the tale should prove enjoyable for campy chills and thrills.
Delving deeply into the Batman story, while not being afraid to break canon, is Batman: The Telltale Series. The game has an enjoyable story, great characters, and a plethora of action-events suitable for the comic-book genre.
Cyber Rider Turbo is an arcade racing game that challenges players to get as far as they can while dodging obstacles along the way.
Giant Machines 2017 puts you behind the wheel of some of the biggest vehicles ever created by mankind. The problem is that, as in real life, these things move very, very slowly – so that initial gargantuan-fueled excitement may run out of gas pretty quickly.
New author Jamison Stone has created a spellbinding world in Rune of the Apprentice, where magic, technology, and nature have merged. And it sounds great as an audiobook too, which is how we reviewed it.
