The original Project CARS was a hugely ambitious game that took me quite a while to give a go because of how impenetrable it seemed at the outset. After my initial impressions of it at E3 2011, I didn’t feel like I would quite fit in with the style of game Slightly Mad Studios seemed…
Raiders of the Broken Planet is a third-person shooter with an emphasis on cooperative play. You and up to three other players team up to complete a series of objectives across a full-fledged campaign. What makes Raiders different is its “antagonist system,” wherein an additional fifth player can invade and work alongside the AI to…
Regardless of how Cappy might be a name that’s a little too on the nose for Mario’s new hat, one thing’s for sure: it’s a fun new mechanic that works wonderfully well, and just happens to be one of the new crazy new things being introduced by Super Mario Odyssey. Nintendo’s lovable plumber’s newest adventure…
Every year, I tell myself to make more time to hang around the IndieCade showcase at E3. Where so much of the show is overtaken by the same big-budget, blockbuster franchises, the IndieCade booth is an oasis of creativity and originality. Games both digital and physical, traditional and experimental, and so on line the modest…
It was a shocking revelation to hear that Assassin’s Creed Origins has been in the works for such a long time. For the last three years, various Ubisoft teams have been getting the game ready, and although many details about it had already been leaked over the past few months, there was still plenty of…
Fell off a cliff and died in an explosion. Caught by the cops and executed for crimes I didn’t commit. Eaten by wildlife after surviving a crash. Struck with amnesia, living a peaceful life as a baker. These are a few of the ways my career as a smuggler came to an end in SmuggleCraft….
What came as no surprise to anyone keeping tabs on videogame news over the past few months, the “secret” collaboration between Nintendo and Ubisoft was finally revealed during Ubisoft’s press conference at E3. But unlike what most were expecting, it was anything but a trainwreck. In fact, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is one of…
Indie developer and publisher tinyBuild is currently being threatened of legal action by Russian publisher Buka Entertainment over the claims made by tinyBuild about the troubled development behind No Time to Explain. According to tinyBuild head Alex Nichiporchik, the whole mess began in 2011, when half the funding to No Time to Explain was suddenly pulled by Buka…
For the thirty or so years since its inception, Dragon Ball fans have had to endure countless less than optimal games based on the beloved Akira Toriyama franchise. From the Famicom era ’til today, there hasn’t been a game that could universally be lauded for being great; sure, some have managed to do justice to…
At the brink of E3 2017 closing down for good, we had the chance to sit down for a chat with the producers of the new Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age at Square Enix’s booth. Based on Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System, an improved Japan-only rerelease of Final Fantasy XII from 2007,…
