Category Archives: Video games

Fallout 4: Two Roads Diverged in a Wasteland

Posted on November 10, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

*   *   *  SPOILER WARNING  *   *   * Rose is my second Sole Survivor, a melee build who became raider overboss in Fallout 4 at level 22. Today, I reached episode 111 of Rose’s journey on my Youtube channel, and a very special bonus video “111 Kisses” tells the … Continue reading →

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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of livestream viewers

Posted on November 8, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

I’ve streamed hundreds of hours of video gaming on my Youtube channel, and I’ve noticed that viewers fall into a few basic categories. Good – These are the best! They are viewers who “like,” subscribe, and sometimes even pledge money on Patreon. They might … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: ADVENTURE TIME Finn & Jake Investigations

Posted on November 8, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

After the month of October, chock full of Halloween creepiness and games like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, The Town of Light, and BioShock: The Collection, it was time to try something simple and lighthearted this week. My 13-year-old tried the … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: UNTIL DAWN Rush of Blood

Posted on November 1, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

My husband got UNTIL DAWN: RUSH OF BLOOD back when he got the PSVR, but we’d forgotten all about it until I found it the other day, still wrapped in plastic. Such serendipity! The perfect game for a Halloween Try-It … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE TOWN OF LIGHT

Posted on October 25, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

With Halloween a week away, I decided to try the psychological horror game THE TOWN OF LIGHT. Developed by LKA, it was released for PC in February 2016 and for consoles earlier this year. The setting is based on an actual mental hospital in Tuscany and … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: METAL GEAR SOLID V

Posted on October 18, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

I’d never played a Metal Gear Solid game before, so when Playstation offered the 2015 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN free for PS+ members, I decided to try it. From a few Youtube videos, the game looked like an open world … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS

Posted on October 11, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

Today I sampled a 2016 retro sci-fi game called THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS that pays humorous tribute to such classics as King Kong, Flash Gordon, Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, and the stop-action animation of Ray Harryhausen. This top-down … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: MURDERED Soul Suspect

Posted on October 4, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

My first Try-It Tuesday game for October is the ghostly MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT developed by Airtight Games and published in 2014 by Square Enix. Ronon O’Connor is a detective who must solve his own murder from beyond the grave in Salem, Massachusetts. This is … Continue reading →

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Billie Lurk returns in DISHONORED: Death of the Outsider

Posted on September 29, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

DEATH OF THE OUTSIDER is the latest game in the Dishonored franchise, developed by Arkane Studios, published by Bethesda Softworks, and released September 15, 2017, for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In this installment, former assassin Billie Lurk rescues her mentor Daud, who … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: JOB SIMULATOR

Posted on September 27, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

For this weeks’ Try-It Tuesday, I not only tried a new game, I tried the PSVR for the very first time with JOB SIMULATOR by Owlchemy Labs. In JOB SIMULATOR, it’s 2050 and robots are fascinated by the lives of the humans they’ve replaced. Players … Continue reading →

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