Zoey Handley
Zoey made up for her mundane childhood by playing video games. Now she won't shut up about them. Her eclectic tastes have worried many. Don't come to close, or she'll shove some weird indie or retro game in your face. It's better to not make eye contact. Cross the street if you see her coming.
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Review – Naval Ops: Warship Gunner
A few years ago, I reviewed Waves of Steel, which is an interesting little naval combat game that gets kind of weird. Totally recommend it. But when that review went up, a community member told me that it’s a spiritual follow-up to Naval Ops: Warship Gunner and its sequel, Warship Gunner 2. “Alright,” I thought. “Probably like Naval Ops: Warship…
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Review – Mashina
Did you play Judero? Weird stuff, but it will stick with you. For the follow-up, Talha and Jack Co have taken things in a much more positive direction. Not that Judero was all that negative, but Mashina is just super-positive.
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Review – Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Looking for a new job? Have you considered lighthouse keeper at the edge of the apocalypse. Static Dread takes you there, giving you the responsibility of safely navigating ships to safety and sinking the ones that look at you funny.
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Review – SimCity 2000
SimCity is, essentially, the progenitor of the city-building genre. However, arguably, it's SimCity 2000 that was most influential in the long term. But is it worth going back to today? The answer to that question is always "yes," by the way. What do you really have to lose?
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Review – Deadly Premonition 2
Deadly Premonition was a fantastical brilliant blunder. It was lightning in a bottle. So, does the sequel manage to make the same magic happen once again? No! Those statements mean no!
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Review – Deadly Premonition
For better or worse, Deadly Premonition had an impact in my development as a video game critic. The game is memorable for a lot of reasons, but it is, in my opinion, one of the best examples of how a game doesn't need to be good to be meaningful.
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Review – S.P.L.I.T.
Aw, gosh. If there was ever a game coded for me, it’s S.P.L.I.T. Hacking, typing, and horror. The only thing that could make it better is if I could boot up Chip’s Challenge on the in-game machine. It’s interesting (and unplanned) that I’d play this game so soon after my review of Typing of the Dead where I talked about…
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Review – P-47II MD
Ooo. Forbidden shoot-'em-up. F-47II MD was cancelled back in the '90s, but Retro-Bit and City Connection are making sure it sees the light of day exactly how it was intended: on Genesis.
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Review – The Drifter
One of the philosophies that made LucasArts’ SCUMM point-and-click adventure games (Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island) so dominant in the ‘90s was their exorcism of the adventure game tradition of death. Games like King’s Quest and even earlier text-based adventure games loved killing the player. It was a fountain of dark humour that everything from The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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Swery’s next game, Hotel Barcelona, is open for business in September
Are you ready to... What the hell is this game even about? Are you ready to have a serial killer in your head? That doesn't sound like something most people would want, but if you answered "yes," Hotel Barcelona is out this September.
