The Northern Nerd

You know that feeling of when you see a game a long time ago, then all of a sudden you get it as part of a winter sale and realize how it should’ve gotten attention? That’s the feeling I get when I rediscover the interactive movie phenomenon The Order 1886. Games that are marketed to be launch titles but then fall to the wayside in comparison to larger name brand recognition, like Killer Instinct (2013), Halo, and Gears of War to name a few. It’s a shame, considering this is

You know, there’s a lot of mascots in the video game world. Apart from the major blockbuster of Smash, the collective genres of video games have made remarkable characters: Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Captain Price, and Mega Man. But, let’s forget the women too; Samus Aran- the first leading heroine in a Nintendo game, Chun-Li- the first female fighter in a fighting game, to more current iterations like Ellie from The Last of Us, Chloe Fraiser from the Unchart

Looting and shooting, total anarchy, a fanbase that has much love for meat bicycles as it does heartfelt stories, and a development history just as complicated as the mood of its current magic slinging CEO, get on the next rocket to the planet of Pandora and maybe its moon if you really want to with Borderlands. The Borderlands franchise has gone through some serious bumps and grinds on its way to its hard worked for pedestal as one of the prime loot and shoot first-person sh

It’s easy to say that hidden objects games are easy to make. They are typically simple and may have a puzzle or two to break up the game play. It can’t get any more casual than that. There is no need for an imaginative story if your goal for an hour or two is to kill time. Well, in the instance of this collection of games, imagination and creativity is a tool and a conduit to save an entire world from darkness. The Drawn Trilogy is a hidden object point and click game develop

I’ve never really liked Rogue-like games, because you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into. Every time you boot up a game like The Binding of Issac or Don’t Starve, you are thrusted into a completely random world with limited resources or random loot. When your game is over, it’s not guaranteed that you will get that same chance of a rare weapon or item until your 15th or 110th play-through. But, one game made me give the genre another chance in the form of a sci-fi f

When the Xbox One came out in 2013, I was blown away with the clear and higher definition graphics that Microsoft had showcased. Apart from their launch title, headed by Double Helix Studios, the revamped Killer Instinct (2013), another game made me want to rip my wallet and throw it at the screen. It was punk, it was loud, it was crazy with its visuals, and it had a title that burned into my mind like guitar solo from Jimmy Page or Eddie Van Halen; Sunset Overdrive. Then, I

Publisher: Motion Twin Developer: Motion Twin Genre: Action Platformer (Roguelike) Reviewed On: Xbox One Available On: Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows Dead Cells is difficult. The new title from French developer and (self-described anarcho-syndicalists) Motion Twin, is much more difficult than any game I’ve ever played. I originally missed the boat for the ‘Soulsbourne’ games (those games in the Souls series, and those that sought to mimic their su