Gaming Insights: Cities: Skylines

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Cities: Skylines is a city building game (with many comparisons to Sim City) where players build, manage and even modify their ever expanding cities. Players start off with a plot of land and can establish their metropolis by enhancing their environment like building bus routes to help your citizens get to work, or by creating dams to generate electricity. Continue reading

Gaming Insights: Don’t Starve Together

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As described on Steam, Don’t Starve Together is “a standalone multiplayer expansion of the uncompromising survival game, Don’t Starve.” Like Don’t Starve, players must withstand this new, mystery world or experience a permanent death. Continue reading

Gaming Insights: Heroes of the Storm

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Heroes of the Storm is an up and coming ‘Hero Brawler’ or as others are more familiar with, a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The game uses heroes from Blizzard’s previously released games including Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, and recently Lost Vikings. Continue reading

Gaming Insights: Darkest Dungeon

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Darkest Dungeon is a dark, gothic dungeon crawling game with turn based combat mechanics. In this role playing scenario, your four heroes team battle against enemies while testing their health, hunger, disease, stress and mental capacities. Continue reading

Gaming Insights: Evolve

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Evolve is a shadowy shooter game where a team of Hunters are sent to eliminate the monsters attacking their people. In this 4 vs. 1 apocalyptic game, you can either play as one of the four Hunters (a trapper, support, medic or assault) or you can play as the alien Monster. Continue reading