Quinn Levandoski

A Game That's It's Own Reward High Above is less like a traditional video game and more like a really pretty set of LEGO bricks. Like the game or not, you can't say that Alex - the sole developer - isn't incredibly straightforward about what this game is. There's no resource management or "skills" to test or improve. There's no end goal. No, more than a game, High Above is a sandbox that allows the user to play and, as the developer notes, hopefully leave their problems behind. I like that.

EA SCOUT the last line of defense for buying on Steam's Early Access

Yep, It's Pretty Super Usually, when I write a review, I open with an anecdote and slowly meander my way into how that story connects to my feelings about the game at hand. Today, I'm going to try something different and give you the bottom line up front - Dispatch

Remastering the Game About Remastering If you consider anything with "Simulator" in the genre description to be a tough sell these days, I totally get it. The term used to indicate a fairly serious attempt to emulate something - see games like the excellent Microsoft Flight Simulator. At some point, they started to get... weirder. Deer Simulator perhaps opened the floodgates, and now "simulator" just as often - if not more often - means zany, off-the-wall chaos behind mundane titles.

It's shocking that there aren't more good pirate games out there. Popular in pop culture? Check. Inclusive of gorgeous and unique environments? Check. Lend themselves to visual customization and a mix of melee and ranged combat? Check and check again. Yet, outside of a few titles, pirate games are both lacking in number and, often, in quality. Enter