Warning! Potential Spoilers (baby ones) A year ago, Ethan and his team of XCOM soldiers went head to head with some jerkoff aliens. Thinking he’d saved the planet, Ethan retired from his position as XCOM commander and took to a quiet life of introspection and craft beers. Unfortunately, the alien invaders weren’t quite ready to… Continue reading
Ethan returns to Exile but not before “finishing” Skyrim. Justin joins him and brings along a deck building game that he doesn’t understand. Jason gets excited among about dark wood 1.7 other new things. Plus, bad nacho advice and hole digging simulators. Night Force Action Report – The editorial video game podcast where the HorribleNight.com… Continue reading
Expansions were announced for both Diablo III and XCOM: Enemy Unknown yesterday, both of which I was happy to hear as I’ve been trying to find reasons to jump back into both games. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Diablo III will be introducing Reaper of Souls, expanding the base game by adding a new Act… Continue reading
Well that was certainly one way to end 2012. Grimmy grew up a bit this year, adding over 20 new categories, and for the first time ever we livestreamed our games of the year selection process. Thank you to those of you that braved the argument marathon with us. We hope we didn’t get too… Continue reading
A 45 minute recap after a 7 hour plus marathon session of awards deliberations. Justin, Josh, and Ethan clear the air, wipe down the arena, and revisit the finalists and winners of The 2012 Grimmys. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics…. Continue reading
The final 11 awards of The 2012 Grimmys are all that remains for Justin, Josh, Ethan and Aaron including the overall Game of the Year. Whose opinion will be the rightest? That answer is all that matters now. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused… Continue reading
The best video game we played this year. Mass Effect 3 It wasn’t easy, Shepard, but you really did it this time. The most talked about and targeted game of the year made it easy to forget all of the things that made Mass Effect 3 incredible. In fact, it is because of those things… Continue reading
I entered this year feeling like I had the video game industry figured out, but I can’t remember a year that surprised quite like 2012. I expected to have my personal game of the year well in hand even before spring ended with only a hint of competition to come from the fall. Instead, a… Continue reading
Holy cow did 2012 go really really fast! I’m still working on my backlog from 2010-2011 but that didn’t stop me from digging into a wide variety of really great titles this year. From Far Cry 3 to XCOM: Enemy Unknown and everything in between, it’s safe to say that 2013 is going to be… Continue reading
Deliberations continue for The 2012 Grimmys. Justin, Josh, Ethan, and Aaron try to figure out if doing horrible things in video games should be fun as they hand out character awards, horror awards, 2011 awards, the best looking award, and more. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a… Continue reading
Our level of frustration is only matched by the few sharp moments of pure bliss that come from being one step ahead of the pure evil that this game is designed around. We love to hate you. Spelunky Spelunky is lucky that it looks and sounds so adorable. Cave adventures haven’t been this harrowing since… Continue reading
We had almost given up on these franchises either because they were starting to suck or they had been gone too long. The triumphant return of this franchise will be remembered until the next one. X-COM – XCOM: Enemy Unknown While the X-COM franchise is one of the most critically game franchises revered in the… Continue reading