Category Archives: Video games

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, … 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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Try-It Tuesday: THE CREW

Posted on September 20, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

Starfish central gaming joined me from the UK via PS4 party chat for this week’s Try-It Tuesday livestream of THE CREW, an action-driving game developed by Ivory Tower and published by Ubisoft in December 2014. I barely scratched the surface, but THE CREW … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: UNRAVEL

Posted on September 16, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

This week I tried UNRAVEL, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer made by the Swedish company Coldwood Interactive and published by Electronic Arts in February 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. This is a very sweet game with a … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: Disney’s FROZEN Free Fall: Snowball Fight

Posted on September 7, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

My youngest daughter joined me for Try-It Tuesday on my Youtube channel this week. We played Disney’s FROZEN FREE FALL, a two-player puzzle game available for PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC, that promised to turn our living room … Continue reading →

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Two types of people

Posted on September 6, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

And I’ve romanced both of them in Fallout 4. It really is the basic difference between Rose’s raider romeo Gage and Fiona’s mayoral main-squeeze Hancock. 

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Postcards from the Wasteland

Posted on September 6, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

“Wish you were here!”  Having a little fun with a screenshot taken from episode 88 “Rose the collector.” 

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DISHONORED 2 as Emily Kaldwin in High Chaos

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

* * * SPOILER WARNING* * * In August, I finally played DISHONORED 2, the 2016 sequel to Dishonored, developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. I livestreamed my entire playthrough, which is archived on my Youtube channel. I … Continue reading →

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