Fred Brizzi
Fred is our loyal but certainly most undeserving Founder, President, & CEO (he’s just a big jerk). He started gaming with Alex Kidd on the Sega Master System and was brought by ID Software to the PC back in 1993, that glorious day DOOM hit the shelves. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and handsome boys, playing international relations by day but games by night. His aspirations, you ask? To leave the elephants and the donkeys at their zoo, strap himself down for the magic carpet ride, and ride the bustling escapade that is PC gaming 100% of the time. In fact, when he's not working for OpNoobs, he's apologizing to his wife for OpNoobs. Fred also coined the expression “Consoles? Glorified Netflix players.” He really wanted us to put that in too. He’s like very proud of that.
Three For Firmament: OPN Dev Talk with Cyan
What made Myst... Well... Myst? What happened to VR? What is Firmament? Three questions for Rand Miller at Cyan Studios, VR enthusiast and creator of Myst.
OPNOOBS site guilty of Review Manipulation and betray their writers
I woke up this morning with some hundreds of text messages, emails, and tweets about OPNOOBS, the biased website that changes review scores to please industry professionals. At the source of the attack, is YouTuber SidAlpha and his video OPNOOBS site guilty of Review Manipulation and betray their writers.
We Need To Go Deeper Early Access Interview
The OPN interview with Deli Interactive. We Need to Go Deeper is a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe. In the game, you and your crew must embark on many voyages into a mysterious undersea trench known as The Living Infinite.
Utomik Interview
The OPN interview with Frank Meijer. Utomik is the no-nonsense unlimited play gaming subscription that offers a growing library of games from over 20 leading publishers. Gamers can effortlessly discover and play games in a single click, thanks to Utomik’s innovative ‘download while you play technology’. You get the real game instantly, not a streamed surrogate.
Children of the Zodiarcs Interview
The OPN interview with Jason Kim, Cardboard Utopia. Children of Zodiarcs is a story-driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus; a world divided by affluence and poverty. Take control of Nahmi and her fellow outcasts, utilising a brand new deck and dice based combat system to strike a blow to the noble Lords’ and Ladies’ unquenchable thirst for profit.
Crumple Interview
The OPN Dev Talk with Gabriel Gutierrez from Nascent Games, on their title newly release title "Crumple." A great conversation about what it takes to get a studio on the run, and on indie game development as a whole.
The Search Interview
Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life! In an unknown world, you'll search for clues about the nature of this place, as well as your own past. Guided only by the letters of a mysterious stranger, you'll find that this universe works differently from our own.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Interview
A unique blend of space sim, RPG and 4X games. Conduct research and construction in your own gigantic space station, command your war fleets and heroic companions to invade enemy territory, build up your stronghold, trade, mine, salvage and remind your enemies why they fear you.
OPN DevLounge Monthly - June 2017
Episode Six, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month. Watch it on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline every month, and win tons of great games!
PREY - AAA Anonymous Epi. 15
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction, until the next one replaces it. This episode covers Arkane's anticipated 2017 release: PREY.
Dawn of Andromeda Interview
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
TotalBiscuit and Gearbox Blackmail G2A. tinyBuild Backs Twisted Collaboration.
After tinyBuild’s CEO, Alex Nichiborchik, emailed OpNoobs a second round of controversial announcements to further defame G2A, I closed his email with a sour taste in my mouth. “Cheap,” I thought. Whatever that was felt like High School drama, in this case with Mr. Mario Mirek, a Senior Account Manager at G2A who, Alex states, at the GDC “came over to the Q&A line, and started shouting that he was the guy dealing with me calling them out last year - embarrassing himself in front of a room filled with industry professionals.”
NieR: Automata - AAA Anonymous Epi. 12
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction, until the next one replaces it. This episode covers SQUARE Enix's PC release of NieR Automata.
Blink Review
With bursts of pressure, ethereal atmosphere, and engaging soundtrack, Blink brings style and originality to your standard design in puzzle-platforming. If you’re a fan of the genre and are equipped with a controller, its cheaper price point makes it worth a buy.
OPN DevLounge Monthly - March 2017
Episode Five, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month. Watch it on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline and win tons of great games, including the #1 winner on our list!
For Honor - AAA Anonymous Epi. 11
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction, until the next one replaces it. This episode covers Ubisoft's PC release of the much anticipated medieval multiplayer, For Honor.
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book - AAA Anonymous Epi. 10
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction, until the next one replaces it. This episode covers Koei Tecmo's PC release of their JRPG, Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book.
Alwa's Awakening Interview
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
CAYNE Interview
In this grim return to the STASIS universe, expectant protagonist, Hadley, wakes up in a facility. Where is she? Why is she there? And, why do they want her baby?
Conan Exiles Early Access - AAA Anonymous Epi. 9
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the on the release of Funcom's Early Access release of their survival game, Conan Exiles.
OPN DevLounge Monthly - February 2017
Episode Four, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month. Watch it on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline and win tons of great games, including the #1 winner on our list!
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard - AAA Anonymous Epi. 8
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the on the release of Capcom's seventh in the series: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard.
Dishonored 2 - AAA Anonymous Epi. 7
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the on the release of Arkane Studio's second in the series: Dishonored 2.
OPN DevLounge Monthly - November 2016
Episode Three, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month. Watch it on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline and win tons of great games, including the #1 winner on our list!
SWORDY Early Access Interview
SWORDY is a local party brawler with chaotic physics-based action. Master the weapons of war, using momentum and timing to fight for your life in a world built on the bones of a ruined empire.
OPN DevLounge Monthly - October 2016
Episode Two, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month.
Abatron Beta Interview
Abatron is galactic dominance with controlled combat. Build your base and troops in RTS mode. Then jump into any unit at any time in FPS or in third person and confront your enemy head on. Unlock upgraded player abilities and build large armies to become the last player standing.
Dungeon Rushers Interview
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
Legion, World of Warcraft - AAA Anonymous Epi. 6
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode covers the release of Blizzard's Expansion, Legion, and the welcomed revival of World of Warcraft. For the Horde!
OPN DevLounge Monthly - September 2016
Episode One, Season One! OPN's DevLounge Monthly is a lively conversation between game developers on Twitch, on the hottest PC games to be released this upcoming month.
Lost Castle Early Access Interview
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons.
Super Button Soccer Interview
Super Button Soccer is a fast paced action/strategy game where you compete against human or CPU players in exciting online and offline soccer matches, collect cards and build your ultimate fantasy team!
Ember Strike Early Access with Reentry Games
Fast head-to-head fighting like you’ve never seen. Welcome to Ember Strike. Join the first PVP fighter of its kind! Ember Strike is the perfect mix of speed and action with live, competitive, head-to-head battles. Collect and upgrade a team of unique fighters and strike down your opponents in a totally unique mix of hardcore fighting, mini-games, and puzzle action. Steal moves, throw Strikes, reign destruction on your enemies!
The Should We Cover It Show?! Ep. 30
We're back once again with another night of waterfalls, running streams and ghosts! We go through the best (and worst) that Steam has to offer so you don't have to! On top of that, we give away game keys to some of the hottest indie and AAA games. For PC Gamers, by PC Gamers!
tinyBuild attacks G2A. Industry goes wild but where's the proof?
Attacking G2A is anti-populist, it’s an assault on the downward spiral that the company brilliantly managed to create against all odds, fighting quasi-monopolies by increasing competition among suppliers, which consequently and undeniably led to a decrease in the inflated cost of gaming. Let’s not forget, shall we, that it is thanks to resellers that indie devs can do what they love best: play games, and lots of them.
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure Interview
Demetrios is a full-length adventure game packed with silly humor. 8 to 12 hours of fun!
Coffin Dodgers Interview
Pimp up your mobility scooter and take on the Grim Reaper and his Zombie army in a race for your soul. Armed with a variety of homemade weapons and gadgets, battle your way through 13 unique & exhilarating tracks. Can you survive the retirement village?
Rise of the Tomb Raider - AAA Anonymous Epi.2
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is a Special Tomb Raider, in celebration of the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
XCom 2 - AAA Anonymous Epi. 3
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the first of our series on XCom 2, in celebration of the PC release this week.
The Should We Cover It Show?! Ep. 26
Watch it Live Every Tuesday night at 9:30PM Eastern, on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline. Game Giveaway Every Week!
Dr. Spacezoo Early Access Interview
Rescue exotic space animals from a corrupt AI in Dr. Spacezoo, a chaotic twin-stick precision shoot-em-up for 1-4 players. Or reduce them to gibs. Your call, monster.
Rocket Fist Interview
Rocket Fist is an arena game with crazy robots in chaotic rocket fist battles. Aim against your frenemies and prove your dexterity by killing each other with rocket propelled fists in this frenetic mix of dodgeball and billiards!
Fragments of Him Interview
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Early Access Interview
A unique blend of space sim, RPG and 4X games. Conduct research and construction in your own gigantic space station, command your war fleets and heroic companions to invade enemy territory, build up your stronghold, trade, mine, salvage and remind your enemies why they fear you.
Blizzard Doesn't Follow
When Blizzard Entertainment announced that Project TITAN had been shut down, my disappointment went deep. Not because I might be stuck with World of Warcraft another decade, but more so because that studio known to define gaming trends had tossed the towel at their attempt to revolutionize an aging genre, instead seemingly reverting to a solution others have been excessively complimented on, the one that embraces walking the beaten path, the one that all too easily follows, in defining game dynamics and features, the dull philosophy of "let's add a fresh coat of paint to this relic called RPG."
Gurgamoth Interview
Gurgamoth is a flying fighting game where the level is your weapon. Each match is lightning quick and focuses on intense flying combat and getting in your opponent's head. The controls are simple, but the mechanics and interesting levels bring out the game’s depth.
Bunker Punks Early Access Interview
Bunker Punks is a roguelike first-person shooter set in a dystopian future. You control a group of revolutionaries, raiding corporate strongholds for supplies, weapons and armor. Customize your bunker, strengthen your gang and overthrow the corporate government.
Shardlight Interview
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Gremlins, Inc. Interview
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer modes, with ranks and ladders. Unleash your inner gremlin!
Pesadelo - Regressão Interview
A cemetery filled with hostile creatures. A church that will not save you. Complex puzzles. The return to the school where everything began. And a fragile, intelligent girl with a thirst for revenge.
OPN Essentials The Solus Project
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Fortified Interview
Fortified is an explosive strategy shooter where players will defend the Earth against a menacing Martian invasion in the 1950s. Play as one-of-four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Interview
Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a video game developed by Asteroid Base for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Playstation 4, Linux, and Xbox One. The project is part of the ID@Xbox program.
tinyBuild Games Interview
tinyBuild is an American video game publisher and video game developer that is primarily associated with the games No Time to Explain and SpeedRunners. Based in Bothell, Washington, with a development studio in Utrecht, Netherlands, the company was founded by Alex Nichiporchik, Luke Burtis and Tom Brien.
Helldivers Interview
HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter from the creators of Magicka. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.
Legends of Callasia Interview
Choose your faction. Choose your heroes. Choose your troops. Conquer lands, create kingdoms, and destroy your enemies. All the lands of Callasia are yours to dominate in this original simultaneous multiplayer strategy game.
Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel Interview
A science-fiction visual novel centered on the implications of time travel, artificial intelligence, and humanity's ascent to the stars.
Starpoint Gemini 2: Titans Interview
Starpoint Gemini: Titans is an addition to the existing stories where players will be able to pick up where they stopped and simply continue on playing. Titans will give you a small taste of what Starpoint Gemini: Warlords, our next big project, is trying to achieve.
Song of Horror Interview
Song of Horror is an old school inspired, third person survival horror, evocative of the eternal fear of what cannot be understood. Take control of up to 16 characters who have been dragged, throughout time, into a story for which they are not prepared.
Black & White Bushido Interview
Black & White Bushido is an arena fighting game between light and shadow samurai. Battle for control of the light or the dark in multiple arenas, hiding from your foes and striking when they least expect it.
Overpower Interview
Destroy your enemies in this competitive medieval arena brawler! Choose between 4 classes each with custom loadouts, 9 levels, 5 game modes, and earn your place on the leader-board with an icon and title based on your skill level. Choose a class and join the ranks today!
The Should We Cover It Show?! Ep. 18
Watch it Live Every Tuesday night at 9:30PM Eastern, on twitch.tv/opnoobsonline, Game Giveaway Every Week!
Far Cry Primal - AAA Anonymous Epi.4
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the on the release of Far Cry Primal, our biggest disappointment to date this year.
Das Tal Interview
Das Tal is the world’s first Open World Survival Arena - we’re bringing together MOBA tactics and Sandbox MMO strategy. Our goal is to make MMOs fun again for PvP fans. No more grind. No more pay-to-win. No more tab-targeting. We are creating a game designed to be compatible with the busy life of an adult gamer. Das Tal rests on the three defining pillars; Meaningful Conflict, Skill-Based Combat, and Constantly Changing Worlds.
The Division - AAA Anonymous Epi. 5
With AAA Anonymous, we discuss our latest AAA game addiction for a handful of months, until the next one replaces it. This episode is the on the release of The Division, and the pleasant surprise we found in its arrival.