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PAX East 2019 Videogame Preview: Control

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I am in the midst of many games right now, some nostalgic (Temple of Elemental Evil), some average (Afro Samurai), some incredibly shitty (Quantum Theory) and one that is completely blowing me away - Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. This game is from the talented folks at Ninja Theory who made the ahead of it's time Heavenly Sword. Heavenly Sword was beautiful, had some of the best motion capture and voice acting this side of Uncharted but had framerate and pacing issues that ultimately stalled it and held it back from a blockbuster. It was also really, really short and seemed designed as a rental game. Enslaved on the other hand shows the maturity of the developer and they bring in many of their strengths from Heavenly sword and few of the weaknesses. It is a true single player game and it features a pair of incredibly real, likeable and human characters in the form of Trip and Monkey. They are both escapees from a slaver ship, but Trip wakes up first and slaps a slave ban

Videogame Review: Hades

Developer Supergiant Games has a terrific pedigree starting with it’s groundbreaking debut title Bastion . They then released the stellar Transistor , the odd but interesting Pyre and now, with their best game yet, Hades . Hades started as an early access title on the newly launched epic game store in December 2018. The initial game was extremely enjoyable but was obviously incomplete and still a work in progress. Many updates followed adding features, weapons, new Gods as well as a Steam release in 2019. Eventually Supergiant was able to add all of their desired features and released the version 1.0 of Hades across both the Steam and Epic platforms. This is a rogue-like style of game so it was perfectly designed to fit the Early Access mold as replaying the game over and over is part of the core design. Hades, in no uncertain terms, is a masterpiece of aesthetics, design writing and sheer fun gameplay mechanics. The core principal of the game has us guiding the anti-hero Zagreus, so

PAX East 2019 Board Games Preview: Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker and Clank!

As mentioned PAX East is much more than videogames and community events there is a huge part of the show that is focused around tabletop games. I had a chance to meet with Dire Wolf Digital’s upcoming games Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker and Clank: Upper Management Pack at the show and both were very interesting and a lot of fun. Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker Dire Wolf could have taken the easy route and made a relatively simple game based on the massively popular Game of Thrones brand but instead they created a deep and interesting game based on loyalty and treachery. In this 5-8 player game everyone gets a character to start the game and they are all based on the TV series regulars. One character is named King or Queen and the others are randomly and secretly assigned traitor or loyalist characteristics. During gameplay challenges are played and each character can help or hinder depending on their preference or role in the game. These actions are played from each person’s

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