The Walking Dead: The Game

The dead come to life in this brilliant but physically challenging adventure game

May 10 2012

Back in 2003 Robert Kirkman brought us The Walking Dead comic book series that’s still going strong today. Then in 2010 AMC unleashed a TV adaption of The Walking Dead to rave reviews and great ratings. It’s one of my favorite shows on television and it’s encouraged me to check out the comic book series. So with the success of the comic book and television series it was no surprise when news broke last year of a Walking Dead video game in development. The people who chose to take on this difficult endeavor was none other than Telltale Games. This is the same company responsible for numerous adventure games including the popular Tales of Monkey Island and Back to the Future (both of which I previously reviewed here and here respectively) adventure games. So naturally Telltale’s take on The Walking Dead was going to be in the form of an adventure game, made available in episodic form just like most of their other games. The first episode entitled “A New Day” is now available and I’ve been playing it for a few days. If you’re an assistive technology user that has any interest in this game then I implore you to read on! The game takes place in the same universe as the comic book series. (...)

An early peek at the long-awaited third installment of the legendary franchise.

April 26 2012

On May 15 one of the most anticipated games of the year, which has been in development for an unusually long period of time, finally gets released to the public. I’m talking about Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3. It’s been twelve years since Diablo 2 was released and this third installment in the incredibly popular franchise was announced way back in June of 2008. This past weekend Blizzard had a free public open beta for Diablo 3 to stress test their servers and so forth so I used the (...)

And they’re accessible and fun for everybody.

February 08 2012

Recently I’ve started to enjoy a type of game known as the "puzzle platformer". These games are sort of an offshoot of the platform game genre, which includes well-known games such as Donkey Kong, Prince of Persia and Mirrors Edge. Typically platform games, or “run and jump” games as some people like to call them, are action and reflex–orientated. Puzzle platformers, however, rely much more on puzzle solving then quick reflexes. These types of games typically use the keyboard as the primary (...)

Turn-based strategy wargaming in a fantasy setting

October 31 2011

Back in 2009 Virtual Programming announced that they would be bringing the turn-based fantasy strategy game Elven Legacy to the Macintosh. It seems it ended up taking longer than expected but alas it has finally arrived in the form of Elven Legacy Collection. Elven Legacy was originally developed by the Russian development house 1C Company and three expansion packs for the game eventually followed. The Macintosh version includes all three of these expansion packs hence the name Elven Legacy (...)

The popular franchise finally returns to computer screens with the famed Augusta National Golf Club at the forefront

September 29 2011

Golfing games have been around for personal computers about as long as personal computers have been sold. Back in the early days of Mac gaming I remember playing such titles as MacGolf and World Class Leaderboard. Then in the 1990s the Links series of golf games was the popular choice for most people including yours truly. But in 1998 Electronic Arts released the first Tiger Woods PGA Tour game and that series quickly evolved into the premier golfing simulation franchise on personal (...)