Author Archives: J.L. Hilton

Try-It Tuesday: OMENSIGHT

Posted on December 5, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

I had a pleasant surprise this week when Spearhead Games emailed me a keycode to play OMENSIGHT on Playstation 4. In OMENSIGHT, you’re the “Harbinger,” a magical warrior who appears in times of crisis. As the game begins, you witness the end of the world but … Continue reading →

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Dang good root beer

Posted on December 1, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

It ain’t Sunset Sarsaparilla but I say “dang” a lot when I’m streaming so I figured I’d try this soda

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Try-It Tuesday: DOOM

Posted on November 2, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

This week, I tried DOOM, a reboot of the game I played about twenty-five years ago. Doom (1993) wasn’t the very first “first person shooter” (FPS) game, but it had a huge influence on subsequent shooter games and video gaming in general. The … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: ENIGMATIS The Ghosts of Maple Creek

Posted on November 1, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

In ENIGMATIS: THE GHOSTS OF MAPLE CREEK, I searched for a missing girl in a mysterious Vermont town. This 2011 point-and-click game is another by Artifex Mundi, like several I’ve tried in the past year. It’s available for Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC and mobile phones. I tried … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: FOUL PLAY

Posted on October 17, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

Victorian daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth and his sidekick, the ninja chimney sweep Scampwick, recount their thrilling adventures in FOUL PLAY, a 2013 steampunk-style side-scrolling brawler developed by UK-based indie studio Mediatonic. Single-player or two-player shared-screen couch co-op. The game plays out across an … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 Monsters Overboard

Posted on October 10, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

I wanted to play something with a Halloween theme for October, so I rented HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: MONSTERS OVERBOARD from a local Redbox. This single-player game continues the story of the Hotel Transylvania 3 movie. The player can choose to be … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: FALLOUT SHELTER

Posted on October 3, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

FALLOUT SHELTER was released as a mobile game, in advance of Fallout 4, just after both games were announced at Bethesda’s E3 2015 showcase. It was available as a PC game in 2016, Xbox One in 2017, and then Nintendo … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: ABYSS ODYSSEY

Posted on September 26, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

ABYSS ODYSSEY (2014) is a video game by ACE Team, an indie developer founded in 1997 by brothers Andrés, Carlos and Edmundo Bordeu, headquartered in Santiago, Chile. They also made The Deadly Tower of Monsters (2016) and Rock of Ages II (2017) that I tried out during previous Tuesdays. While … Continue reading →

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Mixtape #3 – 1989

Posted on September 21, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

I found a box of tapes I made in the 80s and 90s. This one, labeled “My Special Tape,” is a melancholy miscellany that reflects the personal struggles of my young adulthood. Love, loss, longing, and my troubled, intermittent relationship with Lance, … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: HORIZON ZERO DAWN

Posted on September 19, 2018 by J.L. Hilton

Friends of my YouTube channel have been asking me to play HORIZON ZERO DAWN since it came out last year. I wasn’t in a rush, to be honest, because I’d watched an interview with developers from Guerrilla Games who basically said, “we … Continue reading →

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