Alex Hilhorst

Now that I’ve been laid off and released by Activision from the bonds of thralldom, I can once again do something I actually enjoy: writing about videogames. That’s right, I’m back at Games Abyss and free to write as many editorials and reviews as I damn well please. First up is my take on one [...]

17 Hours Played Galactic Readiness: 73% Oh, Kelly Chambers. You truly are the whipping girl for the Mass Effect development team. How they love to torture you, and in turn, players such as I, who adore you. Though a pretty minor character in the grander scheme of the Mass Effect universe, Kelly has always been [...]

12 hours played Galactic Readiness: 63% SPOILER ALERT Mass Effect is a fickle bitch. Once again, it’s forced me to backtrack, just like it did during my replay of ME2, although this time instead of losing 27 hours of gameplay, I thankfully only lost two. But still, I’m a little perturbed. How was I to [...]

48 hours. That’s how long it took me. That’s how long it took me to complete my obsessive Mass Effect 2 replay after I fudged it two weeks ago and had to start from scratch. Every mission. Every piece of DLC. I explored 100% of the galaxy and read all the Codex entries. I saved [...]

A while back I wrote what is, to date, alexhilhorst.com’s most popular article, entitled “Mass Effect 2 May Be The Greatest Game Ever Made” and I stand by that hyperbolic statement. If you were to ask me to rate my Top 10 Games right here, right now, ME2 would be right up there with Resident [...]

MAJOR SPOILERS I’m a huge fan of the Assassin’s Creed series. Truth be told, I’m probably the biggest AC fan I know. While all my coworkers were babbling on about Skyrim and all the dragons they were going to slay, I was getting pumped for the conclusion to the stories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze [...]

How’s it going, everybody? So, I know I’ve been away for awhile, but it was with good reason: I spent twelve days traveling across the country from New York to Los Angeles. It was awesome, and I wholeheartedly plan to write about it at some point. But now I’m in L.A., so I’m very busy [...]

It may be almost a month late, but hey- I ain’t gettin’ paid so what did you expect? Anyways, head over to Games Abyss to read my review of last month’s F.E.A.R. 3, the new installment in the psychological horror/FPS title. Sadly, it lacks the pants-staining terror of previous titles, but in all other aspects [...]

Most gamers have heard of Duke Nukem Forever. A sequel to the classic Duke Nukem 3D, it’s been in development since 1996 and everyone pretty much assumed it would never see the light of day, until Gearbox purchased the property in 2008. Now it’s out. And it’s not that great. While funny, it’s old and [...]

Head over to Games Abyss to read a preview of one of my most anticipated games of the summer, Ms. ‘Splosion Man. It’s the sequel to an awesome side-scrolling platformer for Xbox Live Arcade of the same name sans the “Ms.,” and I recently got selected for an early beta preview of the game. Like [...]