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Let’s talk about Tacoma

Entertainium StaffAugust 30, 2017September 9, 2020025 mins

Tacoma, the latest walk-‘em-up game from Fullbright, the makers of the critically acclaimed Gone Home, is out now. Callum and Gareth have played it, and we decided to debrief in order to share our thoughts on the experience. Be warned; we will talk about everything in the game, so there will be spoilers galore! Gareth:…

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Nidhogg 2 is more Nidhogg, and that’s all it needed to be

Callum RakestrawAugust 24, 2017April 25, 202508 mins

Nidhogg was a perfect distillation of local competitive multiplayer games at their best. Where most of its peers focus on four-player mayhem, Nidhogg was more interested in tense one-on-one duels. But even with the lower player count, it was just as tense and thrilling — both to play and to watch — its game of…

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What’s the deal with Overwatch’s loot boxes?

Eduardo ReboucasAugust 23, 2017April 28, 2025018 mins

After reading through Gareth’s excellent analysis of Hearthstone, I’ve decided to talk about Blizzard’s other hit, Overwatch. Mainly, I wanted to touch upon what bothers me the most about it: the loot boxes. Like a litany of other online multiplayer games, Overwatch “drops” are tied to an acronym whose mention sends shivers down the spine…

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Graceful Explosion Machine is a graceful, explosive shooter

Callum RakestrawAugust 18, 2017April 25, 202507 mins

For as popular as side-scrolling shooters are, it’s tough to pull them off well. Not so much the basics, but the finer points — the feel, the difficulty curve, the action itself. It’s easy to make one that has strong fundamentals, but doesn’t quite nail the fine tuning. Graceful Explosion Machine, from developer Vertex Pop,…

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Hearthstone: A great, fundamentally broken game

Gareth BradingAugust 17, 2017April 28, 2025012 mins

As 2017 marches through August and into September, Hearthstone has just experienced the launch of its sixth expansion in three years. Since March 2014 when the game originally released, it has been regularly supported with the launch of new cards sets and occasional single-player adventures. I’ve played Hearthstone semi-regularly throughout this time, playing enough games…

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Chess Ultra is sure to strike you a match

Felicity ChevalierAugust 17, 2017September 9, 202006 mins

Chess is a rather unique sub genre of gaming, especially in the console gaming sphere. When we think about playing chess against an A.I. opponent, we naturally think about playing chess on a personal computer of some kind. Historically, chess has been a staple of personal computers, almost to its earliest days. Chess on consoles,…

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Mega Man Legacy Collection 2’s lineup might be disappointing, but it more than makes up in content

Eduardo ReboucasAugust 16, 2017April 28, 2025017 mins

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is an inherently inferior compilation in comparison to the first, mainly due to its lineup of games, but it excels in bringing back to light some my least favorite entries in the franchise. In fact, Capcom has done an admirable job putting this new collection together. Although neither Mega Man…

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A chat with Space Mace about Joggernauts

Callum RakestrawAugust 11, 2017April 25, 2025011 mins

For as popular as local multiplayer games are these days, it feels like the competitive variety far outnumbers the cooperative sort. Space Mace, a small indie studio based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, feels that the local multiplayer scene could use more cooperative games. The studio has made them their focus, with their first game, Joggernauts,…

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West of Loathing shows a very different and silly side of the Wild West

Eduardo ReboucasAugust 10, 2017September 9, 202009 mins

Never a stranger to less than realistic portrayals of classic moments in history, I was very intrigued by the prospect of playing West of Loathing, a game that by name alone already had me chuckling. Set in a crudely drawn but incredibly charming world of stick figures making a living in the Wild West, you…

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Victor Vran Review – Vrantastically Lame

Felicity ChevalierAugust 2, 2017September 9, 2020010 mins

Released back in 2015 for PC, Victor Vran has recently made its way to console. The PS4 version boasts a variety of creepy locales, hordes of monsters just waiting to be slain, and last, but certainly not least, piles and piles of loot just waiting to be collected, provided you have the patience. Victor Vran…

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