In the Lab with Giant Spacekat’s Brianna Wu
Episodic, cinematic action comes to iOS with Revolution 60, which combines the branching dialogue and moral choices from Mass Effect with quick-time events, such as in Heavy Rain. Combat, interestingly enough, takes cues from MegaMan Battle Network, in which you and your opponent have a grid of squares you can move around on during the [...]
In the Lab with Frima’s Vincent Martel
Have you ever wanted to blast demons apart as a gun toting nun? Nun Attack let’s you do just that and in glorious, turn based RPG action. Frima’s Vincent Martel, the producer behind Nun Attack, joins us in the Geekenstein labs to talk about making a game based on such a ridiculous concept.
In The Lab with Farsight’s Bobby King
We are launching our audio interview series In The Lab, where our guests join us in the Geekenstein Laboratory to discuss whatever they want. Check it out and enjoy the interviews! While arcades refuse to truly vanish because there are enough of us who still want that experience to keep them limping along, the pinball scene [...]
Combo Crew Review
The Game Bakers’ Squids series were an excellent take on the tactical RPG genre and showed how the mobile platform can put an interesting twist on genres we are familiar with. We had the opportunity to speak with them at PAX East 2013 about their new game Combo Crew and it looked like they were [...]
Gemini Rue Review
Point and click adventure games have long held a special place in my heart. They fell a bit off my radar in the PS2 and early Xbox 360 era until the remake of The Secret of Monkey Island brought me back to the genre I love. It wasn’t until Gemini Rue that I realized other [...]
Color Sheep Review
I’m tired of games with color palettes that consist of gray, browns and blacks. I think most other gamers share the same distaste. Games like Ni No Kuni, Okami and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker are some of the most memorial games because of their use of vibrant colors. The color palettes of most mobile [...]
Top 5 Reasons You Should Play You Don’t Know Jack
Last summer, Geekenstein’s own lovely David introduced me to the Facebook version of You Don’t Know Jack, a game I had never played but seen in many a book-order-form in my elementary school days. Only now that I’ve actually played some games in the series, I’m surprised they were marketing this series to kids in [...]
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Review
Eeyup. Get out your brushable figures, everypony, because the newest licensed venture from Gameloft is My Little Pony. But I’m sure you’re asking yourself the same question you did before you started watching the show; “As an adult, is this actually worth my time?”. The short answer… isn’t that short. Based on the shockingly successful [...]
Zynga Shuts Down 11 Facebook and Mobile Games
Oh, Zynga. You had it so well. What the hell happened? Maybe it’s that Draw Something was cursed, or that you’re simply everything that is wrong with the industry and karma came knocking, but one thing is for certain: You’re going down. To cut costs and attempt to pull the company out of its financial [...]
Skylanders: Lost Islands Review
Welcome back, Portal Master! It hasn’t been that long since the launch of Skylanders: Giants and there’s already another Skylanders game to keep me from being productive. Vicarious Visions’ previous iOS take on the Skylanders license was fun, but left a lot to be desired with their simplistic Skylanders: Cloud Patrol. This time, they created a [...]
