It hasn’t been that long since I last saw Everspace 2. I took a brief look at it at PAX West, and it’s since launched a Kickstarter that’s almost reached its goal. Back then I got a hands-off demo that looked good, and I’ve since gotten a chance to play around with an early build…
There are times when “throwing the kitchen sink in” works extremely well in games. Examples of that method of game design are aplenty, but the same can be said about the opposite, when putting too many systems into a game without honing any of them particularly well only makes it a bloated mess. Vampyr sits…
Flying Carpets Games recently debuted The Girl and the Robot, their first game out the gate, after successfully hitting their Kickstarter goal. The game follows a young girl attempting to escape a winding castle situated in the sky with the help of a gold-colored robot. And it looks very promising. I recently went hands-on with…
With so many multiplayer shooters available these days, developers have to work hard to make them stand out. Crytek’s latest project, Hunt: Showdown, looks to do just that. Set in the late Victorian-era, Hunt is a competitive monster hunting first-person shooter where up to five teams of two work to see who can track and…
Returning Ys X players have little to look forward to in Ys X: Proud Nordics as it doesn’t add anything particularly substantial and the technical improvements aren’t that great to begin with.
There’s a sense of profound satisfaction when you make it through one of Galak-Z‘s mission. It’s not only because they are difficult and thrilling to play, but also because everything is on the line all the time. One death means complete and utter failure in Galak-Z, and unlike any game I might have happened to…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you’re in a game exploring a mansion – go ahead and stop me if you want – and you’re all alone in the dark – go on! – it’s really scary and you’re defenseless. Drat, you didn’t stop me! All right, that was a lame attempt at…
It doesn’t reinvent the formula, but Like a Dragon: Ishin! successfully spins off from mainline Yakuza in the 19th Century yarn.
DIRT 5 represents more than the return of a franchise to its “noisiest” days. It is an extremely fun and enjoyable game that will serve as a bridge between the current and the next generation.
Ys X is a less ambitious game but still manages to convey what the series has been going for for decades, which will surely please newcomers and long time fans.
