Shawn Vermette

In Fortune Winds: Ancient Trader, Legendo tries to take the exploration and adventure of seafaring games and distill it into small concentrated doses. The team did a fairly good job, but probably distilled it a bit too much.

The goal of Fortune Winds is to explore the seas, trading goods at various ports of call, upgrading your ship and finding three artifacts that are required to take on and kill the Kraken. You theoretically have an unlimited time period to do this in, but your rivals will be trying to do the same thing, so you can’t take too long.

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This week, we discuss new entrants in the PlayStation All-Stars battlefield, the console battlefield and the… um, Battlefield battlefield. READ MORE

The year is 2098. Three mega-corporations control the world and battle each other for supremacy. The general populace huddles in virtual worlds to escape reality, while employees of the companies use that same virtual technology to battle each other in four man tactical warfare. Sound intriguing? Well, forget all of that, because none of it matters. READ MORE

Recently, a lot of board games have made the jump to digital releases, and with mixed results. Dungeon Twister is the latest, and while it is an admirable conversion, it seems to lose something in the translation. READ MORE

This week we cover the topics everyone is still wondering about, after the latest Nintendo Direct failed to cover them: Wii U price and release and the 3DS Layton/Wright crossover. READ MORE