Kyle Hilliard
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Halo is an important staple in my appreciation of video games. It taught me that moving a giant tube television and an Xbox to a friend’s house for a few hours for LAN multiplayer was absolutely worth the effort. It was a bonding exercise with the neighbors and roommates of...
Project Spark
Despite a long-standing adoration for the medium of video games, I have never been interested in trying to make my own. Even with that mindset, however, Project Spark quickly got my creative juices flowing in an enjoyable way.
Neverending Nightmare’s director, Matt Gilgenbach, isn’t shy about sharing what inspired him to create the game: his personal struggles with depression and mental illness. A product of Kickstarter, the experience is meant to be an examination of depression and horror in an interactive environment, and it succeeds in making the...
Kinect has made a lot of unfulfilled promises since its reveal, and continues to do so into the next generation of Xbox, but one of the few games consistently delivering on the promises of the body-tracking controller has been Harmonix’s Dance Central series. It’s a game that would not be...
Originally gaining popularity nearly 10 years ago as a student-developed PC game, developer 10ton updated Crimsonland for an appearance on PlayStation 4. The quality twin-stick shooting gameplay and structure have survived the decade admirably, but its visuals and presentation feel firmly rooted in the past.
Lifeless Planet begins with a take-off from Earth, followed by a landing on a mysterious planet. It’s clear in the opening moments that something has gone wrong as you scramble to find oxygen and stay alive. You explore a large desert area, but the game offers no guidance or waypoints...
A Story About My Uncle is a strange name, but it is an appropriate and perfectly descriptive one. In the game, players tell a story to their daughter about the time they followed their adventurous uncle Fred into a mysterious world. This whimsical setup frames the action, which focuses on...
Nidhogg
At the end of each match the Nidhogg, a creature with roots in Norse mythology appears to devour the winner. It’s a strange way to celebrate victory, but it’s appropriate for Nidhogg’s atypical multiplayer structure and gameplay. At first glance, the game doesn’t look like it belongs in the fighting...
Tiny Brains
You can play Tiny Brains alone, but this puzzle game is built for co-op. You combine the unique powers of four rodents in different ways to move through a lab. You can play by yourself, switching between the rodents, or with up to three other players.
One problem that goes along with the launch of a new console is that the biggest games are sometimes months or years away. Resogun attempts to deliver a small game that invites repeated playthroughs and inspires competition while you are waiting for the heavy hitters. Geometry Wars admirably served this...
Halo: Spartan Assault feels like a Halo game, which is no small feat considering it plays very differently from the original first-person shooter that set the genre standard on consoles. As a twin-stick shooter, Spartan Assault has more in common with Robotron and Geometry Wars, but it still hits almost...
Zombie Army 4: Dead War feels largely familiar amid the horde of Left 4 Dead-style co-op shooters, but it isn’t without its clever mechanical touches and spins on the oldest of video game cliches: killing Nazi zombies. Between its varied and campy story campaign and an amusing horde mode, there...
