As an effectively anonymous co-operative open-world shooter, it’s a ton of fun. I plan sticking with it for the long haul, and hope that the chat features get fixed before players jump ship.

Being a tactician in Nintendo’s strategy RPG franchise has never been easy, but it doesn’t have to be impossible, either. This Kickstart Guide will focus on some key areas to help you steer clear of unavoidable doom.

When we last visited our bandit heroes they had just repelled a full assault from their nemesis, Dick. The bandits captured and convinced many of Dick’s generals to join them, even a troll! Blue Faced Beast’s military might was crippled in the battle and he had to rebuild. Let’s go now, to the time, November 1110.

Shipwrecked. Captured. Betrayed. Forced to perform for an audience of cats? Wait, what?? You’ve just unlocked the door to BattleBlock Theater! There’s no turning back once you’ve started on your quest to free your imprisoned friends from evil technological cats! Immerse yourself in this mind bending tale of treachery as you battle your way through hundreds of levels in order to discover the puzzling truth behind BattleBlock Theater.

Join a futuristic online open-world shooter where thousands of players scour a transformed Earth competing for alien technology.

Create a unique character and level up with diverse customization options. Hunt alone or with others as you improve your skills and unlock powerful modern and alien weapons that will help you survive the massive battles that await in this constantly evolving online world. Explore vast landscapes on a variety of vehicles and lead the charge in huge co-op battles and fierce multiplayer conflicts. Immerse yourself in the world of Defiance as the game impacts, and is impacted by, the Defiance TV series.

So when we left things off last time, the forces of Blue Faced Beast advanced west and conquered the lands of Five Hued Tiger.

Veterans of Bioshock will feel like very little has changed at the outset of Bioshock: Infinite. As the game progresses, however, there’s quite a bit of divergence in balancing and mechanics. While many players will wish to experiment on their own, there are still some nice tips we can offer new players to avoid time wasted with inferior character builds.

I was not exactly kind to Crysis 3’s campaign in my review, but thankfully the game’s eye-melting graphics have some purpose in its solid multiplayer. Much like Crysis 2 before it, the game plays like “Call of Halo”, but definitely has its own unique learning curve. Here are some tips to help you survive the Post-Human battlegrounds online.

If you’ve never played a Total War game, Shogun 2 is one of the most-universally praised games in the long-running series, and Creative Assembly has done a yeoman’s job in making it approachable yet deep.

Splitkick’s Jim, Ben, Holly, and John descended upon Boston this weekend to bring you the best opinions and write-ups from this year’s PAX East. You can consider this a consolidation thread where all other PAX East 2013 posts will be linked from for your pleasure and pain.

If Defense Grid is pure tower defense, refined to near perfection, Anomaly is the smart evolution. Anomaly 2 certainly isn’t just a refinement, it’s an even further evolution.

LocoCycle was hands off at PAX East, but that didn’t stop Twisted Pixel from bringing both IRIS and SPIKE to the booth for passersby to gawk at. Instead, Mike Wilford was setup to demo a new sequence for the PAX crowd at set intervals.

The graphics have been brought into this decade without losing the feel of the original game, and the controls are razor sharp which provided deadly accuracy with a mouse and keyboard in deathmatch. Releasing at the $15 price point, Rise of The Triad should be a fun and nostalgic return to the days when first person shooters didn’t take themselves so seriously.