Final Fantasy XIV is a game with a short but rocky history. The original incarnation of this game, commonly referred to as 1.0 by players, was a mess. Compared to other titles on the market, it was a skeleton of a game, with little content and innumerable bugs. After about a year, Square Enix threw in the towel, and the development team was removed from the project. Ultimately, it decided to completely remake it from the ground up. The PS3 version was scrapped, and work began on what would become A Realm Reborn. READ MORE
Romance plots in games have always been one of the hardest things to write. Often, they fall into one of many typical cliches, or they go completely off the rails, confusing the player. Hate Plus avoids these potential pitfalls, telling a wonderful story that is designed to be interactive. READ MORE
Divinity: Dragon Commander is a game that flew under the radar for quite a while, but it offers an interesting blend of strategy mechanics, both in and outside of missions. Divinity is an established, long-running RPG franchise, but Dragon Commander is an experimental first foray into strategy. READ MORE
When it the original game first released, Rise of the Triad was largely overlooked. It remains one of the most influential first-person shooters though, for the mechanics it pioneered: bigger and more complex environments, built-in mouse aiming and multiple protagonists. Many of these were made popular by the games that came after. READ MORE
World War II has long been a well-harvested setting for games, though surprisingly few real-time strategy games have appeared among the innumerable first-person shooters, given the nature of the conflict. For a time, World War II games were widely regarded as overdone and uninteresting; the industry simply went to the well far too often, and games started to feel too similar. READ MORE
