Author: Mark B.

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents: Unboxing the Microsoft Xbox One

    As I stated last week, with the launch of the new consoles upon us, it seemed fair to take a look at the consoles for those who were on the fence or weren’t able to acquire one immediately to give people an idea of what they could expect when/if they chose to acquire one. As…

  • Atlus Announcement Stream Recap – 11/24/13

    Let’s be honest, you’re here for one reason only. Let’s get to it.

  • Review: Madden NFL 25 (Sony PlayStation 4)

    Madden NFL 25 Genre: Sports Developer: EA Sports Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 11/15/2013 While I’m not the most dedicated football game fan in the world, I’ve spent my fair share of time with various games. I always had a fondness for the Joe Montana Football series on the Genesis and Sega CD, and I’ve…

  • Book Review: Assassin’s Creed: Book Four: Hawk

    Assassin’s Creed: Book Four: Hawk Publisher: Titan Books Cost: $9.99 (MSRP)/$5.99 (Amazon.com) Page Count: 48 Pages Release Date: 11/12/13 Get it Here: Amazon.com So, now that the Assassin’s Creed comic series has cast off the shackles of the video game continuity, it’s time to see what the creators of the comic series can do. While…

  • Book Review: Assassin’s Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy

    Assassin’s Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy Publisher: Titan Books Cost: $24.99 (MSRP)/$14.97(Amazon.com) Page Count: 144 Pages Release Date: 11/5/13 Get it Here: Amazon.com You’d think that an Assassin’s Creed comic series would be something Ubisoft would push to bring out in the US as quickly as possible, but such is not the case. In…

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents: Unboxing the Sony PlayStation 4

    With the launch of the new consoles upon us, it seemed fair to take a look at the consoles for those who were on the fence or weren’t able to acquire one immediately to give people an idea of what they could expect when/if they chose to acquire one. As I happen to be one…

  • Review: Chaos Code (Sony Playstation 3)

    Chaos Code Genre: 2D Fighting Developer: FK Digital Publisher: Arc System Works Release Date: 09/03/2013 God bless Arc System Works. While I am by no means a fan of their fighting game franchises, as Guilty Gear and BlazBlue strike me as “not very good” (and we’ll leave it at that), they are more or less…

  • Tabletop Review: RISK: Plants vs. Zombies Collector’s Edition

    Anyone who knows me to one degree or another knows I’m a fan of Plants vs. Zombies. I’ve done everything, Achievement-wise, one can do with both the Steam version and the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game, I own the Android release, and I even wrote up a little news blurb about the “Stop…

  • 10 Thoughts on… the Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl Demo (Nintendo 3DS)

    I’ve made this point before, but while I love a good dungeon crawling RPG, I’ve never quite been able to embrace the Etrian Odyssey series. The Dark Spire, the first person Shin Megami Tensei games and the Wizardry series have always been more my speed, and while the Etrian Odyssey games had some of that…

  • Review: Outlast (PC)

    Outlast Genre: Adventure/Survival Horror Developer: Red Barrels Publisher: Red Barrels Release Date: 09/04/2013 When discussing the previously reviewed Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, reviewers around the web have been heavily drawing parallels to the topic of today’s review, Outlast, in addition to comparisons to the previous game in the series. It’s not hard to see…

  • Review: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (PC)

    Neither better nor worse than its predecessor, A Machine for Pigs is a different game from The Dark Descent, and whether or not you like it will vary because of that.

  • Review: Irritum (PC)

    Irritum is a novel idea wrapped in an engine that can’t really do it justice.

  • Review: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Genre: Third Person Shooter Developer: 2K Marin Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: 08/20/13 When it was announced that 2K Games had acquired the XCOM franchise and was planning to release what amounted to a tactical first person shooter before anything else, to say that fans were livid is probably something of…

  • Review: Star Wars Pinball (Nintendo Wii U)

    Star Wars Pinball Genre: Pinball Developer: Zen Studios Publisher: Zen Studios Release Date: 07/11/13 As we’ve discussed previously, while Zen Studios is likely most notable to gamers because of their Marvel Pinball series of tables across the different consoles, they’ve been expanding their range of licenses as time has gone on. The majority of their…

  • Review: Saints Row IV (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Saints Row IV Genre: Action/Sandbox Developer: Volition Publisher: Deep Silver Release Date: 8/20/13 The Saints Row series started off as what could be considered a mild parody of the Grant Theft Auto formula before veering entirely off the road and becoming a full-on farce, and the gaming world, by and large, is better for it.…

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents: Saints Row IV Livestream, 8/14/13 -SPOILERS-

    There are no spoilers in this POST, but in the stream, there will probably be a couple.

  • Review: Dark (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Dark Genre: Action/Stealth Developer: Kalypso Publisher: Kalypso Release Date: 07/09/2013 There are an astonishingly small amount of games that feature vampires as the protagonists, when it all comes down to it. While there are plenty of games where vampires are the antagonists, or possibly allies, even the games that allow us to play as something…

  • Preview: Saints Row IV (PC)

    Saints Row started its life as something of a lighter-hearted Grand Theft Auto clone that knew how much fun it was to go buck wild in a living city, but still had something of a serious undertone to it. Time has almost completely tossed aside that serious undertone, however; while the later games do hold…

  • Review: Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded (PC)

    Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded Genre: Adventure Developer: Replay Games Publisher: Replay Games Release Date: 6/27/13 Seventeen years ago, for all intents and purposes, the Leisure Suit Larry series died a quiet, unassuming death when then-publisher Sierra cancelled the planned seventh game in the series, Leisure Suit Larry 8 (it’s a long story), and basically parted…

  • Review: Resident Evil: Revelations (Sony Playstation 3)

    Resident Evil: Revelations Genre: Survival Horror Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 05/21/13 Last year, the Nintendo 3DS was graced by the release of Resident Evil: Revelations, which was simultaneously one of the best games to come out for the system up to that point, one of the best entries in the franchise overall, and…