Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 420X Headset - Hardware Review

A good headset helps to make a game more fun, especially those that have online components. A great headset enhances the experience and makes the game itself more enjoyable as a result. Turtle Beach has been in this particular hardware game for quite some time now, but the Ear Force Stealth 420X Headset for the Xbox One shows that they are still among the best in the business.

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Legions of Steel - PC Review

Legions of Steel is the digitized version of a tabletop wargame from the 90’s, along the vein of games like Warhammer 40k and Epic.  In the Legions of Steel universe, a phyrexian-like race of machinery has gained a foothold in the galaxy and is spreading like a plague, invading swiftly across known space.  This leaves the more meat-bag-inclined species of the known world no choice but to team up against certain defeat.

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Oni - Retro Reflections

Oni seemingly had everything a game needed: a cool heroine, easy to grasp controls, fast, original action, futuristic backgrounds. It lacked, however, a crucial element: a quicksave! But let’s start from the beginning.

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Armello - release dates, new characters

Armello is an interesting title I have touched on before, and now there is some new news about the game that we wanted to share.

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The Last Dogma - PC Review

I like it when games take chances. It is nice when I can see the influence of other titles that I am both familiar with and quite fond of, such as The Stanley Parable. I can appreciate a truly indie effort and forgive some shortcomings, but at the end of the day a game needs some sort of message, to deliver some sort of value to justify your money spent on it or time spent with it, and The Last Dogma fails on those fronts.

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Massive Chalice - Xbox One Review

Massive Chalice is a game that mixes strategic combat, RPG elements and even takes from simulation games to create something that oddly feels both refreshingly new yet comfortably familiar at the same time. The end result is an interesting game with some questionable mechanics that keep the title from ever completely taking off, but is still fun for strategy enthusiasts.

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Into the Stars - PC Preview

Into the Stars puts you in the role of the Captain of the Ark 13, humanity's final space-faring vessel and you are tasked with the exploration of the universe. In search of a new home, you and the crew of the Ark 13 will face adversity in the stars in this Unreal Engine 4 powered Space Survival Simulator. Hailed as a flashier FTL, Into the Stars aims to place you in command of humanity's last hope; are you Picard enough survive the tribulations of space while in the Captain's Chair? Find out if we at Chalgyr's Game Room are in our Early Access Preview.

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First screenshots of NBA 2K16

I am a tremendous basketball fan and have been personally following the NBA 2K series since the beginning. Even though my Pistons missed the playoffs (yes... again) last year, I'm still looking forward to the new hope that a new season brings!

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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - Mac Review

The Fantastic Four. The X-Men. The Avengers. About the only way to get them on the same screen together is in video game form (due to the mess that is the Marvel movie rights). While that is a source of frustration for fans of the Marvel movies, at least the video games seem to be able to get it right as LEGO marvel Super Heroes for the Mac provides over a hundred different characters to romp through adventures with.

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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 - PS3 Review

Not wasting any time once I finished the first, I went straight from One Piece Pirate Warriors into One Piece Pirate Warriors 2.

There were several things that were immediately apparent when starting off the second entry into this Warriors spin-off. The first entry tried to be rather different with its puzzle platforming style which worked in some cases but felt a bit strained in others. Moving away from that style, One Piece Pirate Warriors 2 instead concentrates more on the core Warrior system and takes a bit from the Samurai series for a much faster paced experience both attack buttons for creating combos in that ever enjoyable 1v1000 feel.

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Tower of Doom - Retro Reflections

Tower of Doom is my all time favorite arcade game. It is a fantasy action/role playing adventure, where you travel through a land of mystery and danger, searching to defeat a powerful evil force that lurks in a distant, dark tower.

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Samurai Warriors 4-II Limited Edition coming September 29

Samurai Warriors 4-II is going to be one of those titles we follow closely over the next couple of months. I am particularly curious to see how the new direction in story narration plays out.

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Zombie Army Trilogy - PS4 Review

If you’re anything like us at CGR, then you’ve probably spent hours with your friends, within the unbreachable walls of a pillow fort, formulating a hypothetical battle plan for reclaiming your living room (and eventually the world) in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Maybe your plan, like mine, includes fashioning a bandanna out of sausage links, tearing your shirt off in a slow-motion panic - as though it were armor splashed with acidic alien blood - and employing Johnny Cage-esque low-blows to every zombie that galumphs into your macho posturing. Because you, like me, hypothesized during your childhood that, to the undead, groin-shots are just as lethal as headshots.

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