Category: 10 Thoughts

When Bungie decided they were more or less tired of making Halo and opted to hand off the franchise to Microsoft so they could go do something else, it should probably come as no surprise that their next venture would be a futuristic FPS (though I was holding out for a Pathways into Darkness reboot…

While Monster Hunter is probably one of the hottest things going in Japan, there’s been a general dearth of games that have attempted to put their own spin on the “hunt giant monsters” concept, both in Japan and the US, until fairly recently. While there have been games that borrowed certain elements from the Monster…

With the success of Minecraft and Terraria on the PC, it was inevitable that more people would try to get into the act of making games where you start with nothing in a procedurally generated world and become God-King through lots of building and crafting. While a lot of games that are trying to do…

Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War is the latest freemium game by Mobage and DeNA, creators of G.I. Joe Battleground and Transformers. Unlike those two games, which give you no real control of your team’s actions and which specialize in PvP play, Arena of War is a direct combat game where interaction with other players…

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…

I have a huge soft spot for the Professor Layton games. When I heard that there would be a spinoff on iOS and that it would be free with IAPs, I had mixed feelings. On one hand, the touchscreen would work well with the puzzles and, hey, more Layton on the go is always nice.…