Growing up in Lithuania in late ’90s/early ’00s, I fed on a steady diet of action movies and thrillers. I also grew up to be an avid sci-fi nerd. And basically no game captures the nostalgic feeling of those years of gritty action violence like Huntdown.
Shadow Empire: Planetary Conquest preview – It’s mine now
How often do you see a sci-fi 4X game that’s taking place on another planet and it isn’t a warmed up clone of Alpha Centauri? And how often is it set in a post-apocalyptic setting? Because that’s what you can expect in Shadow Empire: Planetary Conquest.
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Iron Danger review – Time enough for Finland
Time for a short review of Iron Danger. Why short? Because the game is good enough for me to have written two big ones already. Let’s see if I can do it in far fewer words!
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Rage 2 review | Nanotrites, sustain me!
Now, when the original Rage came out, it was not a big hit. Sure, it had that fancy tech to load massive textures, but the game was short and ended basically on a fart. I was surprised when I heard they were making a sequel. I was even more surprised when I finally got to play Rage 2 after subscribing to Xbox Live for PC.
The Chudliness of Death of Hope
The voice of a chud crying in the wilderness: “please keep politics out of my entertainment!” And as you would expect from a chud, he immediately contradicts himself. For when they say “politics,” they actually mean “something that makes me feel bad.” Anything that doesn’t is apolitical. It is through this cracked lens that this curse descends upon Death of Hope, the long-awaited Horus Heresy fan movie.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War T’au DLC review | Blue Man Fireteam
If orks are the best race in Warhammer 40,000, the Tau are the worst. Oh sure, the Tyranids have the worst fluff, but they get beat by the game balance stick fairly often. Tau, however, have little to endear them, especially when it comes to their rules and their players. So it isn’t that surprising that the T’au DLC came to Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War so late in the cycle.
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Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock – Ghost Fleet Offensive DLC review | Toasting toasters
When they first announced Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, I was not amused. A TV series tie-in for a franchise I considered dead? Not something I was interested in. Yet the good people at Wargamer/Strategy Gamer would not stop ranting and raving about the game, and I’m nothing if not impressionable. Here’s me reviewing Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock and its latest DLC, Ghost Fleet Offensive.
MiniLAW: Ministry of Law review | Wait a Minute, This Isn’t About Miniatures
Properly capitalized as “miniLAW: Ministry of Law,” this is an interesting sidescroller game about being a postapocalyptic cop. But rather than investigating crime, you wear power armor and arrive at crime scenes via low-altitude, no-opening drops.
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Phoenix Point review | Protecting our vital fluids from crabmen
I’m too young to have been brought up on X-Com: UFO Defense (or UFO: Enemy Unknown – that’s how it was called outside the US). In fact, I played some of its terrible imitators long before I tried the real thing. I’ve probably spent more time on XPiratez more than on the original game. I finished XCOM: Enemy Unknown with Enemy Within, I gave UFO the good ol’ college try, and the most prominent Lithuanian video review of Xenonauts features the sound of a spoon (previously stuck to my skin) dropping on my table. There was no way I wouldn’t review Phoenix Point, a game headed by the man who built the damn genre. Continue reading “Phoenix Point review | Protecting our vital fluids from crabmen”
Why am I still playing The Outer Worlds?
You may have noticed the question mark in the title – it suggests that this is not an article that lists many good reasons to play The Outer Worlds. No, it’s all about being baffled by my decision to continue playing and finishing it.