When we think about videogame conferences, E3 and the Penny Arcade Expo are usually what comes to mind. Massive booths with loud music and multi-colored lights, huge convention centers packed to the brim with near unnavigable throngs of people, and all the games you could ever want, both big and small, vying for your attention….
Styx: Master of Shadows, from Cyanide Studio, feels at odds with itself. It’s a stealth game that tries to court two different schools of stealth design: the modern open-ended approach and the classic rigidness of trial and error. For a while, it strikes a fine balance between the two, giving you plenty of room to…
There’s been an unsettling amount of silence from most videogame publications regarding #gamergate, a massive hate-mob that is actively abusing and threatening women across the industry under the guise of exposing poor ethics in game journalism. (Read about it here and here if you haven’t heard of it by some miracle.) Mainstream news sites have…
The problem with most competitive puzzle games I’ve played is that they feel like they all boil down to who can make matches faster. And due to the random distribution of blocks, it makes competition a matter of luck rather than skill. Games like Tetris try to fix that by allowing you to hold blocks…
“Always together, forever apart.” Those are the first words you see upon loading Entwined. It weaves a story of two spirits in love and their journey to overcome the barriers that separate them. It’s a lovely premise for a lovely game, one that isn’t explored very deeply, but nevertheless manages to be moving. Entwined sees…
Videogames and obstacle courses are one of those weird pairings that always works. Something about swiftly navigating ridiculously treacherous courses never ceases to entertain. It’s why games like Trials continue to see great success. Action Henk from RageSquid, which just launched on Steam early access, but instead of relying on a specific catch to instill…
Entertainium was at E3 2014 and we hope you’ve been reading our ongoing coverage directly from the Los Angeles Convetion Center. We also had our own personal picks from a variety of publishers, as well as indies. Here are a few of them, from Callum’s personal list! Bloodborne So many aspects of Bloodborne seem to…
It’s only been a few months since Dark Souls 2 landed and already we’ve got another Souls-esque game to get excited about. Bloodborne comes from the creator of the Souls series himself, Hidetaka Miyazaki, developed in conjunction with Sony Japan. It is very much a Souls game, borrowing many of its design sensibilities, but only…
It seems almost fitting that my experience with the first part of Dark Souls 2’s Crowns of the Fallen Kings DLC trilogy – Crown of the Sunken King – began with all my equipment broken. I was given control of a standard warrior archetype wielding a Longsword and a shield, only both of those things…
Transistor wastes no time in jumping straight to the action. Rather than a long preamble to set the stage, the first thing you see is the protagonist looming over a dead body impaled by a massive sword. It’s a striking scene – one that raises tons of questions, but provides no answers. Transistor simply trusts…
