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Author: Zach Davis

  • Gods Will Be Watching

    Gods Will Be Watching

    godsFirst off, congratulations on the fantastic title. Gods Will Be Watching is a single screen point and click adventure game based around surviving a harsh winter. You’re stranded in the cold with a group of travelers, each with unique professions, a dog, and a small amount of supplies. The goal is to survive 40 days, with each day consisting of a limited number of actions. Want someone to attempt to fix the broken radio? That’s one of your five actions. Want your dog to hunt for food? Another action. You’ve got three more today. Used them all but forgot to light the fire? Sorry, everyone died of hypothermia. (more…)

  • Best Games of April 2013

    Nothing’s permanent. Smaller, cheaper downloadable games easily swept the top three this week. One of the best games I’ve played all year has been a $4 game I played on a tablet. The video game industry is changing, and it continues to be an exciting world to watch develop. With new technologies and new consoles on the horizon, things are changing, and we’re all getting to watch it unfold. (more…)

  • Shovel Knight Scoops Up All the Money

    b57c3c1d592d12658494e41a17143f4e_large (1)With 24 hours left in the Kickstarter, now’s your last chance to back the incredible looking Shovel Knight. Yacht Club Games continues to set more stretch goals as the community keeps taking them down one by one. As of now, the game has earned over $270,000 and is making more cash with every page refresh. The final announced stretch goal is set at $300,000, which will allow the team to include every Boss Knight as a playable character in the multiplayer mode. At the rate the campaign has been growing, they’re more than set to hit above $300,000 before the clock runs out.

    The game looks fantastic, and so far, seems more than deserving of the incredible fan base it has gained. Shovel Knight is an 8-bit throwback to Mega Man, except the gun arm has been traded in for a surprsingly functional shovel. Every bit of footage I’ve seen so far has me dying to get my hands on the game itself. I threw in my $15 for a Wii U version as fast as my hands could enter my credit card info on the page.

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    Shovel Knight is being developed by Yacht Club Games, which is made up of some immensely talented developers previously from WayForward. Also along for the ride is Manami Matsumae, who composed the original Mega Man soundtrack. There’s some real talent on board, and I’m super excited to get my hands on Shovel Knight when it hits digital storefronts later this year.

    According to the Steam Greenlight page, the current release date is “Winter 2013”, so get your Wii U, 3DS, or PC ready for an 8-bit journey of knights, shovels, and probably lots of dirt. And fun, hopefully it’ll be fun.

  • iPlay’d: Badland

    iPlay’d: Badland

    teaser-screen-6There are a lot of games to download on the App Store. As in, about a hundred thousand. I’ve played hundreds of games on my iPad and iPhone over the years, and I’ve really enjoyed a ton of them. But this week, I may have just found my favorite.

    Between 2012 and 2013, the App Store has been going through a bit of a transition. With Super Hexagon probably marking the crux of the change, iOS games have been gaining respect as a medium to deliver quality gaming experiences. Super Hexagon ended up being features on several Game of the Year lists last year, and for good reason, it was clearly competitive with just about anything else on the market. Earlier this year, we had Year Walk. It’s been hailed as another champion of iOS maturation, giving players a high-quality experience on par with the quality of any other platform. (more…)

  • Best Games of March 2013

    So many games this month have surprised me, I’d be hard-pressed to think of everything. I wasn’t even aware two of my top three games this month existed until I played them! I finished Tomb Raider, one of my predicted top ten for this year, and left disappointed. There have been more than enough games to make up for that one minor misstep though. BioShock was my front-runner for game of the year, and it ended up doing nearly everything I wanted it to. It may not be perfect, but it’s one of the best games I’ve played this year. Let’s hope the rest of the year keeps it up as strong as these first three months! (more…)

  • What will you do with One Chance?

    What will you do with One Chance?

    onechanceAt the first major emotional gut-punch, I was stunned. It was one of the hardest hitting and shocking moments I’d experienced in a game, and it was my own damn fault. I knew I could have avoided it, but I had done what I thought was right. In less than 15 minutes, One Chance takes you on a ride of betrayal, loss, and bitter-sweet redemption. (more…)