James Schumacher – Writing & Art

Back with a few videos… sorry for the absence. The New Colossus is the sequel to the fantastic Wolfenstein: The New Order. Unfortunately I’m a little behind on games due to lots of freelance work. However I have managed to play a little way into The New Colossus and it’s[…]

Hand of Fate 2, the sequel to the surprise hit releases on Tuesday, Nov 7 in North America. Here’s an early look at the first hour of gameplay. The title continues the interesting mix of story-based card game mixed with mini-games of chance and simple 3D, 3rd-person combat action. This[…]

Headphones recommended by the developers and I agree wholly. Hellblade, full title Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is the latest from team Ninja Theory and has released for the PS4 and PC/Windows on August 8, 2017. The title is a story-centric, hack-n-slash combat adventure game with a gritty, fantasy world and dark[…]

Unravel is beautiful little platformer focused on story-telling through the platforming adventures of a little character made of yarn, mixed with high quality cinematics. Here is the brief introduction, showing us Yarny’s creator as she reminisces over old photos. More from Wiki: Unravel is a puzzle platform video game developed[…]

The Long Dark has been in early access for several years now and has featured a continually evolving and robust Sandbox mode based on arctic survival in the frozen wastes of a fictional Northern Canada. Now the team behind the game has finally made Single Player a really. Calling their[…]

Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game’s plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt[…]

A look at the beginning game of Tacoma, the latest from Fullbright. Wiki: Tacoma is an exploration game set aboard a seemingly-empty space station in 2088. The player-character, Ami, has an augmented reality (AR) device that allows her to review actions and conversations of the non-player characters that were part[…]

Dead Space 3 takes the game to new locations, a large city and a frozen ice planet. The Unitology cult is set to unleash markers created from blueprints stolen from Isaac Clarke’s mind during his imprisonment in the first game. Meanwhile the keys to defeating a necromorph uprising could be[…]

A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way aka No One Lives Forever 2 is the second of the 60’s spy-themed FPS games using Monolith’s Lithtech Engine. As the first, the game is an Austin Powers-genre story with mixtures of action and stealth. This one expands on the locals and upgrades the visuals[…]

Here the Intro Sequence extended into the first mission intro to get the whole starting story down prior to the tutorial. This uses v3 of the Widescreen patch with maxed out settings in-game and in the Nvidia Control Panel. Running at 1080p and 60fps. No One Lives Forever (aka The[…]

Watch Dogs was a mixed bag experience, lots of interesting attempts at new features with a story that was sort of muddled, lead by a mostly unlikable main character. Watch_Dogs 2 attempts to take the core gameplay ideas and fix some of these issues. Here’s the full introductory/tutorial sequence in[…]

Dishonored 2 returned with the ability to play as Corvo Attano or his daughter Emily the empress. In this beginning intro, things quickly turn bad as a coup begins to take place. More info via Wikipedia: After an “otherworldly usurper” steals the throne from the Empress, she and Corvo Attano[…]