Author: Aaron Botts
Definitely Not Fried Chicken Lets You Live Out Your Drug Kingpin Dreams
Business sims are nothing new these days, but have you ever considered the angle of living out your “legitimate business in the front, thriving secret drug lord empire... Read More
Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition
If there’s anything to be said about game preservation and the prevalence of digital media, Scott Pilgrim generally tends to be at the top of most people’s minds.... Read More
Gamer Escape’s Top 5 Reviewed Games of 2020
It has arrived: the end of the year. A year that felt simultaneously gone in a flash yet unbearably long. It sure has been an…interesting…start to a new... Read More
Review: Space Invaders Forever
It should go without saying how pervasive classic Space Invaders is in pop culture and gaming history. But that didn’t stop Taito from doing almost anything and everything... Read More
Platforms, Release Date Revealed in Leaked Persona 5 Strikers Trailer
For a while there, it seemed fuzzy on whether or not we would see the Phantom Thieves of Hearts grace our screens in the West with the Dynasty... Read More
Review: No More Heroes [Switch]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about certain creators in the industry, it’s that sometimes the more esoteric and weirder ones in the fold tend to push out... Read More
Review: Airplane Mode
Here’s a fun fact about my own life: I had never traveled by air up until very recently. Even then, it was a handful of flights to and... Read More
Review: Serious Sam 4
It should come as no surprise to most that the focus in the first-person shooter space lately has primarily been multiplayer. In between the dearth of countless battle... Read More
Shenmue: The Animation Announced
Yu Suzuki seems to be going all in on making his Shenmue dreams come true. Because he’s going to be Executive Producing a 13 episode anime adaptation for... Read More
Review: Aokana: Four Rhythms Across the Blue
Here’s the thing. This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered visual novels as a reviewer or as a gamer. Admittedly, most of the titles that I’ve come up... Read More
Preview: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Battle royale games feel like a dime a dozen these days, but there have been one or two that I’ve come across that I actually dig. Tetris 99... Read More
Hands-On: Darius Cozmic Collection Console
It was hard to deny how pervasive horizontal shoot-’em-ups were in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These tough-as-nails quarter munchers were in many an arcade at that... Read More
Review: The Last of Us Part II
Delays. Story leaks. A remake of the first game for the current generation. Working on other IPs in their catalog. Releasing at the end of yet another console... Read More
Review: Sludge Life
I’m no stranger to weird and offbeat media. Sometimes it can be nonsensical as hell, sometimes it makes pointed statements in very unconventional ways, and sometimes it just... Read More
Review: Saints Row: The Third Remastered
It’s weird. I remember a time when open-world sandbox games were the one thing that everyone in the gaming space went head over heels for after Grand Theft... Read More
Review: Streets of Rage 4
After 26 years (!!) without any entry in the series, you would think that fans of the long-forgotten Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle franchise would have to resort to... Read More
Review: Yakuza 4 Remastered
Let’s be honest here. Were it not for writing for Gamer Escape, I probably wouldn’t have fell as hard for the Yakuza franchise as hard as I did... Read More
Review: Yakuza 3 Remastered
By now, it goes without saying how eager SEGA is to bring the story of the Dragon of Dojima to the masses as much as possible on PS4.... Read More