During the most recent beta for Rare's upcoming high seas pirating adventure, Sea of Thieves, I was fortunate enough to be given a key and test the waters for myself. My first go at the game included two of my friends and a random person teaming up for a four man crew aboard a large and worthy vessel. We collected our supplies from the port at which we spawned. Supplies that included bananas to help us replenish our health if needed, cannonballs to engage in piracy on the open waters...

During the most recent beta for Rare's upcoming high seas pirating adventure, Sea of Thieves, I was fortunate enough to be given a key and test...

Back in January, I was offered the opportunity to try out an early build of the upcoming psychological thriller meets third-person action title, Past Cure. The build of the game I played was just two levels from the full game. At the time of the preview, the game was still very much in development at Phantom 8 Studio. Typically, when you play a game you notice that they tend to mesh all of their gameplay elements into a singular focus for the entirety of the experience. There usually isn...

Back in January, I was offered the opportunity to try out an early build of the upcoming psychological thriller meets third-person action title,...

Reborn from the Fallen
There is a very interesting thing happening with reviews for Deck13's new action-RPG The Surge. It's something I saw before and something I myself am guilty of, especially when it comes to Deck13's previous release, Lords of the Fallen. That "interesting thing" I have noticed is a move to compare each and every aspect of The Surge to the Dark Souls games. That alone is fine but the thing I cannot stand is the fact that some are actually upset, even borderline...

Reborn from the Fallen
There is a very interesting thing happening with reviews for Deck13's new action-RPG The Surge. It's something I saw...

Hey everyone! Wow, it's been a while since we last had an announcement here, so I thought it was high time I change that.

As I mentioned in a brief blog post the other day, I will be phasing out the amount of daily news posted at Total Gaming Network. I will not be phasing it out completely. However, I would rather my time be spent more on the creation of original content such as reviews, previews of upcoming games, and perhaps more long-form content. I've been thinking ab...

Hey everyone! Wow, it's been a while since we last had an announcement here, so I thought it was high time I change that.

As I mentioned...

I went in not knowing anything about the franchise, but I came away a huge fan.

I am sad to say that I have never played any entry in the Yakuza franchise before. Between never really knowing much about the games and some of them never making it Stateside, it just wasn't meant to be. However, thanks to SEGA and the upcoming Yakuza 0 for the PlayStation 4, I finally got a heaping helping of what the franchise has to offer. The focus of Yakuza 0 is split between Kazuma Kiry...

I went in not knowing anything about the franchise, but I came away a huge fan.

I am sad to say that I have never played any entry...

It's Ragnarök and everyone's invited. Through the Woods by developer Antagonist is a third-person horror game based on Norse mythology. We're talking about a game that includes giant trolls, the wolf brothers of Sköll and Hati, Fenrir, Hel, and more from Norse mythology that most people probably aren't too familiar with. I know I wasn't too familiar with most of it prior to playing this game, but thankfully a number of encounters, collectibles, and letters helped to explain this mythology while...

Through the Woods by developer Antagonist is a third-person horror game based on Norse mythology....

Repetitive, bland, broken, and disappointing.
It has become increasingly difficult to find many good things to say about Mafia III. In the time I have spent with the game, I have seen an abundance of glitches, poor A.I., uninspired open-world gameplay, and story missions so repetitive that even the first Assassin’s Creed is jealous. It’s a very interesting situation I found myself in while playing through the repetitive gameplay slog for hours on end, because I am someone who quite enjoy...

Repetitive, bland, broken, and disappointing.
It has become increasingly difficult to find many good things to say about Mafia III. In the...

It really makes you think.
Bulkhead Interactive has brought the world The Turing Test, a new entry in the every growing first-person puzzle genre. In its simplest terms, the game finds you going from room to room solving a series of puzzles that get progressively harder the deeper in to the game you go. You manipulate what can best be described as portable batteries to charge up objects like doors, industrial sized electromagnets, and more all in an effort to progress to the...