The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

Video Games

Four video games to keep people busy on Halloween

The divide between horror games and films is vast. On one hand, many iconic villains have been made in the wake of horror cinema: Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Leatherface to name a few. In the medium of video games,…

New ‘Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ settings do not equal better gameplay

After a soft reboot with “Assassins Creed Origins,” Ubisoft has released its next title in the long-running “Assassin’s Creed” series. This time, the series goes even further back, to the age of ancient Greece, a time even before the titular…

Avalanche Games behind potential ‘Harry Potter’ game

On Oct. 2, reddit user VapeThisBro posted a purported leak to the subreddit GamingLeaksAndRumors for a video game set in the beloved universe of “Harry Potter.” The post showed a hand-recorded video of what appeared to be an in-progress trailer,…

Bankruptcy looms, Telltale Games fires half its employees unexpectedly

Telltale Games, a popular video game developing company, announced on Sept. 21 that it would be firing a majority of its employees and that, once all affairs were wrapped up, it would cease any continuing development of games. While video…