Category: Gaming

In 2004, Troika Games released Bloodlines, an RPG set in the universe of the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade games. Bloodlines takes place in a fictitious version of Los Angeles, where vampires secretly walk among humans. Vampire “life” relies on upholding the Masquerade, a set of laws that aim to guard the secrecy of vampiric society…

When was the last time you read a manual for a video game? Perhaps a better question: when was the last time you bought a game that actually came with a manual? It seems like a strange question to ask; after all, what’s the point of having to read a separate piece of documentation when…

Hold on.. online matchmaking? The battle royale “shrinking circle” mechanic? An extraction shooter gameplay loop? And it’s developed by FromSoftware!? Yeah, “weird”; that’s what the Internet said when Elden Ring Nightreign was revealed to be an online roguelite. Nightreign may brandish the Elden Ring title, but the two games are very different. This time, you’re…

There’s a profound sense of home inside the Normandy, your starship throughout the Mass Effect trilogy. A similar feeling is found in Dark Souls II’s Majula, your campsite in Dragon Age: Origins, or, hell, the entire province of Skyrim from The Elder Scrolls V. There’s something special about a player home or hub that makes…

I just finished playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for the first time, and all I can say is: wow. I’ve been gaming a lot in the past year, but I’d never played this massively popular title before. Needless to say, all of the praise it receives is deserved. It’s been ten years since the…

As someone who has been spending a lot of their spare time studying, playing, and buying older games, I’m experiencing the challenges of accessing certain titles first-hand. In most cases, I can purchase the games in my wishlist without having to jump through any hoops. Steam has an impressive amount of titles and Microsoft’s continued…