Machi Koro 2 [BOARD GAME REVIEW]

Posted By Megan Renee on Jan 19, 2024 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

Although the original Machi Koro received many raves and  award nominations after its release in 2012, there were some consistency issues to playing the game that made it a little more tiresome rather than fun to play. Fortunately, Machi Koro 2 manages to improve on most every issue that the original one had!  

The Last of Us [CLASSIC VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 24, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Classic Video Games, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews

In an alternate 2013, a mutated Cordyceps fungus begins to infest human hosts and turn them into violent, zombie-like monsters called “the infected.”  As the apocalypse comes upon Austin, Texas, our protagonist, Joel (Troy Baker) and his brother, Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce), try to flee with Joel’s daughter, Sara (Hana Hayes).  In the flight, a soldier shoots Sara and she dies in Joel’s arms. Twenty years later, as society has almost been obliterated by the infection and people live in controlled quarantine zones, Joel and his partner, Tess (Annie Wersching), serve as smugglers in the remnants…

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 17, 2023 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews

What happens when you allow Tiny Tina to take over an entire video game?  Come with me and find out!

You play the Newbie, a character that has crash landed in Borderlands along with your shipmates, human pilot Valentine, played by Andy Samberg from SNL/Lonely Island, and self-absorbed robot Frette, who is voiced by consummate comedienne Wanda Sykes.  While your ship is being repaired, Tiny Tina approaches you and asks you to play her favorite game, Bunkers & Badasses.  When you all agree, she takes over as Bunkermaster and tells you a terrifying tale of the Dragon Lord…

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Nov 24, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Multimedia, Review: Video Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

At long last, we finish the quadrology of Inkle Studio’s reimaginings of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Sorcery! (If you’re just now discovering our reviews of this series, read our prior reviews of Sorcery! , Sorcery! 2 , and Sorcery! 3 .) In concluding the last game, The Seven Serpents, we made our way through the treacherous time-warped Baklands, tracking 7 deadly serpents who were tasked with hunting us down and slaughtering us, or, at the very least, warning our nemesis, the Archmage, of our approach so we could not assault Mapang unawares. In the final chapter, we find…

Martial Arts: The Card Game [GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 10, 2016 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

Many of our readers have trained in (or at least, have a love for) the martial arts. While Martial Arts is often seen as referring only to oriental martial arts (ie kungfu, karate, tae kwan do, muay thai), it is actually a much broader concept that can refer to any form of combat arts, from boxing to krav maga. When a stylist combines various elements of contrasting combat arts, this is popularly referred to as mixed martial arts (MMA) and, with the help of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has become the second most watched sport in the USA, behind football.

Skull & Shackles: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game [GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Jan 29, 2016 in Featured, Review: Games, Reviews

If you love the fantastical world of Golarion from Paizo’s Pathfinder series and want to explore the less well-known pirate life within this world, then the Skull & Shackles edition of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is one you’ll definitely want to check out!

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Apr 22, 2015 in Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

In concluding the last game, Kharé, Cityport of Traps, we unraveled a mystery involving mages and an invasion that permitted our adventurer to escape Kharé with our hide intact and made our way into the forbidding wastelands known as the Baklands. In this new chapter, we find ourselves in the Baklands blazing a trail for the metropolis of Mapang—home to the deadly keep where the Archmage who has taken the stolen crown has fled—only to discover that 7 deadly serpents are hunting us. These serpents are the treacherous servants of the Archmage and, those who don’t kill us, will rush back to…

The Elder Scrolls Online [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By Chris "Synct" Young on Aug 10, 2014 in Featured, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews

The Elder Scrolls is sailing into uncharted waters with its first try at not only a multiplayer title but a full blown MMORPG. These are some huge shoes to fill with the most recent Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim being heralded as among the best RPGs of all time. I am happy to report that Zenimax has delivered not only a solid MMO but also a worthy chapter in the saga of the Elder Scrolls.

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 2: Kharé, Cityport of Traps [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Mar 3, 2014 in Origin, Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Video Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

For those of you new to the brilliant iOS re-imagining of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Sorcery! from Steve Jackson, you’re in for a treat. For the briefest of recaps, you are a magical warrior who has been entrusted with finding a stolen mystical crown and defeating an evil sorcerer in the process. In the first game, you survived the surrounding Shamutanti Hills and found your way to the gates of Kharé: Cityport of Traps!

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft BETA [VIDEO GAME PRE-REVIEW]

Posted By Chris "Synct" Young on Jan 30, 2014 in Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Multimedia, Review: Video Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

It’s the Warcraft game no one expected. Hearthstone just started open beta, but even in the closed betas I was able to participate in, it has already taken the gaming world by storm, with well over 1 million gamers participating. And unlike many games that are free in beta…

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Shamutanti Hills [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]

Posted By JT Hanke on Oct 10, 2013 in Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Games, Review: Multimedia, Review: Video Games, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

It’s rare when you play an iOS game and find that all you want to do is gush over it! When the only thing more fun than playing the game is waxing eloquent about its charms and nuances to friends, family members, coworkers, and complete strangers at Starbucks! But for our readers who are fantasy role players, Sorcery! might just be the one to do that for you! It definitely has…