By Ronald Gordon In the gaming world, you often progress by getting stronger with every enemy you defeat. But what if you got weaker with every kill you made? What if you lost some items or had your health lowered with every opponent you challenged? Do you think you could beat a game that leaves you…
By Ronald Gordon It’s what I like. Of all the games I’ve played throughout the years, I repeatedly find myself drawn toward the genre known as adventure games. Something about stepping into a new world and exploring what it holds really draws my attention to the point where if an adventure game is good enough,…
By Ronald Gordon I have avoided them. Throughout my gaming history, there’s one category of games that I personally eschew: those games where my screen gets littered with bright, exploding lights that I have to dodge, and enemies that I have to kill. I’m referring to Bullet Hell games, a special sub-genre of shoot ‘em up…
Played on Xbox One, also for PS4, Switch & Windows. By Ronald Gordon Some dungeon crawler games feel repetitive with regard to theme and gameplay. Time and time again, we’ve all seen offerings that try to replicate the intensity of “Dark Souls” and after a while, these ideas get overused and boring. However, when it…
By Ronald Gordon Everyone loves a nice hotel stay from time to time, but what if your hotel had mysteries and secrets beyond your wildest imagination? The Spectrum Retreat is a first-person puzzle game developed by Dan Smith Studios and published by Ripstone Ltd. Here, you are a person named Alex, and you’re trapped within…
By Harold Goldberg Kimari Rennis and Ronald Gordon, two Circle interns from our partnership with the DreamYard Prep School, attended Sony’s game demo event at the PlayStation Theater last week. They seemed to like “Concrete Genie” and “Dreams,” MediaMolecule’s next game, the best. Both show wondrous artwork, the former with animated pen and ink beasts…
By Ronald Gordon Not many point and click games grab my attention but there are some that I come across that really catch my eye and draw me in with their stories. The Journey Down is one of those select few that I actually played all the way through. The Journey Down is a three-part…
