Tagged:  adventure

By David Taylor, March 3, 2014 0 VG Review

Last autumn Telltale Games released the first installment of the company’s new episodic adventure game series, The Wolf Among Us. The initial outing, entitled Faith, introduced players to the Fables universe — one populated by the flesh and blood incarnations of… Read More »

By Eddie Inzauto, February 18, 2014 0 VG Review

The Stanley Parable feels like a conversation between player and developer. Illusions of choice and consequence are masterfully maintained, despite the very nature of the “story game” experience on offer. As in most video games, player agency upon the virtual… Read More »

The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 1 – All That Remains Review

By Mike Murphy, December 27, 2013 0 VG Review

Clementine has endured terrible hardships in the years since the dead began to rise in The Walking Dead. With her surrogate father and role model, Lee, now gone, those hardships are only getting worse in the first episode of the… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, December 17, 2013 0 GN

This week I’m changing things up from my PS4 streaming to bring you all a look at the very first episode of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: Season 2, titled All That Remains. Come join and find out just how… Read More »

By David Taylor, November 26, 2013 2 VG Review

The Wolf Among Us is Telltale Games’ latest episodic adventure series based on the hugely popular comic book, Fables.  Sheriff Bigby Wolf is the main playable character, and as his name implies, he is literally the Big Bad Wolf from the… Read More »

By Eddie Inzauto, November 19, 2013 0 VG Review

Knock-knock intrigues me, and I don’t know if it was ever meant to do anything more than that. I don’t even think it’s a “good game,” per se, and its introductory message tells me that it isn’t a game at… Read More »

By Greg Galiffa, November 18, 2013 1 VG Review

In his effort to glorify games as a viable story-telling instrument, Quantic Dream developer and director David Cage has said games need to grow up. He’s advocated more narrative, emotional structures in order to break out of the game industry’s… Read More »

By Eddie Inzauto, November 8, 2013 0 VG Review

In 2010, Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent breathed new life into a faltering horror genre that was becoming increasingly obsessed with the glitz and glamour of action shooters and their mass-market appeal. This first-person horror adventure completely disempowered players… Read More »

By David Taylor, September 11, 2013 0 VG Review

In Gone Home, you play as Kaitlin “Katie” Greenbriar. The game starts when Katie arrives on the front porch of her family’s home in Oregon. Katie is ready to relax after returning from a yearlong trip to Europe. Circumstances dash… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, September 7, 2013 0 Features

As the longest console generation in history comes to a close, the GamerNode staff reflects on the games that made this era so great. Games of the Generation is a new GamerNode original feature that allows us to share that passion and nostalgia for the most memorable and significant titles of the last eight years — since November 22, 2005, specifically — and explain why these games have defined a generation and will forever stand as touchstones in gaming history.