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A Plague Tale: Innoence is a unique story and graphics-heavy game from developer Asobo Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive. The game is one of many making use of quixel megascans to create photorealistic landscape for use in projects. The intro sets up the tall for an incoming plague and
Unavowed comes to us from David Gilbert and publisher Wadjet Eye Games. Gilbert is perhaps best-known for his Blackwell series of games. Wadjet Eye, Gilbert’s company, is known for publishing adventure games in the classic pixel style but with some modern sensibilities. A little more via Wiki: Unavowed is an
Judgment follows Takayuki Yagami a former lawyer turned detective in the familiar Yakuza haunt of Kamurocho. Wiki description: Judgment is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for the PlayStation 4. A spin off to the Yakuza series, the game initially began
Seven years in the making, this is the intro sequence to The Last of Us Part II from developer Naughty Dog, 2020, exclusively for the Sony Playstation 4 system. This intro sequence gives a very brief summary of the main plot points/conclusion to original The Last of Us, the
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The latest in the SEGA beat ’em up series made famous on the Genesis/Megadrive in the early ’90s. Streets of Rage 4 comes 26 years after the series’s third and at-the-time final entry in 1994. Know for it’s side-scrolling action in the style of Final Fight and other classic sidescrollers
The latest entry in the XCOM series is Chimera Squad, a surprise spin-off title focused on premade characters in a post XCOM 2 storyline, where the humans, aliens, and hybrids attempt to co-exists. The game shows off a new twist on the turn-based mechanics of the series, as well
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Detour Update – 4k Restoration and Bluray Way back when I had the idea of presenting reviews and analysis of all the major gold film reels of actual Noir titles featured in the game L.A. Noire. Life has a way of changing plans, so the project never got very far.
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Northgard is an RTS game built around Norse mythology. The title was created by Shiro Games and released on March 7, 2018, after about a year in Early Access. Shiro was probably best known for its Evoland series prior to Northgard. Here is the short intro sequence for the
The intro for God of War III remastered. The game was remastered for its 10th anniversary and released in 2015. More info via Wiki: “God of War III Remastered is a remastered port of God of War III for the PlayStation 4 console. It was first released in North America
The Lost Legacy is a spin-off from the Uncharted series following series regular Chloe Frazer and mercenary Nadine Ross featured in Uncharted 4. Rather than a simple DLC mission the Lost Legacy is a full-length Uncharted adventure with all the production quality you would expect from a Naughty Dog game.
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Hey, it’s been awhile. Time, money, and all that… ya know? Anyway. Here’s is the latest from DONTNOD’s diverse lineup of titles. This one is Vampyr which has a feel to it that reminds me of some classic 3rd person action. I can’t help but think of Vampire Bloodlines. They
Yakuza Kiwami the remaster/remake of Yakuza 1 for PS4. Here are the opening titles, what we would used to called the attract mode back in the day. It shows of the upgraded visuals and sound, while giving a brief taste of the story to come, starring our old favorite Kazuma