Jans Holstrom

Monster Mania: Alan Wake 2’s Redefined Approach to the Taken Monster Mania is a weekly column celebrating the unique and varied monster designs in horror gaming. No one makes games quite like Remedy Entertainment. Remedy’s games have always been steeped in the weird or the surreal to varying degrees. Looking back at the studio’s first acclaimed hits, Max Payne 1 & 2, the studio has had a knack for sidestepping genre trappings. On paper, Payne’s slo-mo diving noir saga was straightforward enough.

LCB Game Studios is Making My Kind of Visual Novels Nostalgia dances and sparkles across the surface of LCB Game Studio’s Pixel Pulp visual novels. The simplistic color scheme, the look and feel of a home computer adventure game from the 1980s, and a classic sense of horror and sci-fi storytelling from the midway point of the last century.

Game Over, Man: Revisting the Fascinating Fumble of Aliens: Colonial Marines In a world where we’ve had the best Alien game ever (Alien Isolation), and a decent squad shooter of Aliens (Aliens: Fireteam Elite) the notoriety of Aliens: Colonial Marines has almost been left to rot and fester. Fret ye not though, because I’m here with a shovel, and I’m ready to dig up what’s left from a decade of decay.