Tag Archives: Video Games

Try-It Tuesday: ENIGMATIS 2 The Mists of Ravenwood

Posted on October 16, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

The search for an evil preacher leads a detective to a haunted nature preserve and a missing family in ENIGMATIS 2: THE MISTS OF RAVENWOOD. This 2013 point-and-click puzzle-solving supernatural thriller is the sequel to Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, which I played back … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: BATMAN Arkham Knight

Posted on October 2, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

MY RATING: 3/5 KAPOWS! BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT is a 2015 third-person action-adventure game offered free to PlayStation+ members in September 2019. Developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, it’s based (if you hadn’t already guessed) on the DC … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: A PLAGUE TALE Innocence

Posted on September 25, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

MY RATING: 1000 DEAD RATS A PLAGUE TALE: INNOCENCE is a third-person stealth horror game developed by Asobo Studio and released by Focus Home Interactive in May 2019. It’s available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. I played the free trial this week. In … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: STARDEW VALLEY

Posted on September 18, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

My family’s been after me to play STARDEW VALLEY for months. I avoided the game because I thought it would be another Farmville. Wow, was I wrong. STARDEW VALLEY looks like a cute little gardening simulator, but there’s also fishing, foraging, crafting, ranching, cooking, adventuring, brewing, … Continue reading →

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GOD OF WAR: The Jötunheim Wall of Prophecy

Posted on August 24, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

I recently finished the main story in GOD OF WAR. Near the end of their journey, Kratos and Atreus enter Jötunheim and discover a wall carved with runes and images. Some depict Kratos’ wife and Atreus’ mother Faye. Others show … Continue reading →

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Fallout New Vegas fanfiction: “Special Delivery in Jacobstown”

Posted on July 23, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

Artwork by of-devils-and-drawings.tumblr.com ADULTS ONLY. This is a steamy story about Lacy the Mojave courier and Marcus the mutant mayor of Jacobstown. Based on my playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas. Contains explicit sexual content, language and romance. May also be … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: TITANFALL 2

Posted on June 20, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

This week I played TITANFALL 2, a first-person shooter developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It’s a 2016 sequel to the game Titanfall (2014), available for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. I spent most of my time in the tutorial, learning the … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: NIGHTMARES FROM THE DEEP The Cursed Heart

Posted on April 10, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

This week I played another gem from Artifex Mundi, NIGHTMARES FROM THE DEEP: THE CURSED HEART. This is the first game in the Nightmares From the Deep series, released in 2012. In THE CURSED HEART, modern-day museum curator Sarah Black … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: BLUE ESTATE THE GAME

Posted on April 3, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

BLUE ESTATE is a “darkly funny on-rail shooter,” based on the graphic novel from Viktor Kalvachev, developed by He-Saw, and published by Focus Home Interactive. It looked interesting so I played the free demo this week on PlayStation 4. The … Continue reading →

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Like Hammer & Steel: An Oseram Love Story

Posted on March 21, 2019 by J.L. Hilton

The video game Horizon Zero Dawn inspired me to write a love story and a drinking song. “Like Hammer & Steel” is about Masara, an Oseram craftswoman who impresses the Sun-King with her clever contraptions. She would prefer to have Erend’s attention but he’s … Continue reading →

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