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…
Rain’s concept is a splendid one. It follows a young boy and girl who suddenly find themselves turned invisible, unable to be seen except in the rain. The idea opens up a fair number of inventive opportunities. Except Rain fails to capitalize on them at every turn. Monotonous levels and repetitious puzzles make Rain a…
The Stanley Parable is a singular video gaming experience unlike any other and you owe it to yourself and to posterity to witness it first-hand.
The episodic model seems to the be steadily becoming the standard for point-and-click adventure games. Ever since Telltale Games practically mastered the craft, all sorts of adventure game makers have been aping the model to varying degrees of success. It’s a tough structure to pull off. One of the latest games to take a crack…
Wonderful are the moments when you simply have to stop what you are doing and just smile and awe. While playing the first of Telltale’s newest adventure series, The Wolf Among Us, I couldn’t help to be happy. I was playing yet another great game in my personal favorite genre – and it was just…
Yearly upgrades have come to be the norm for sport games since just about forever. Long gone are the days you’d buy one of them without having expectations or comparison points with previous versions. Coming in from Jaleco’s GOAL! and International Superstar Soccer, I had my doubts jumping back into soccer games with last year’s…
Since 2008, Eurogamer Expo has grown steadily to become the biggest and wildest games trade show in the UK. Since 2010, EGX has taken place at the vast edifice of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, packing the 1930s exhibition hall full to the brim with new electronic sights and sounds. This year was…
Entertainium Extra is our weekly news round-up highlighting some of the bigger, interesting, or weird stories from the past seven days. Sony partners with Extra Life charity drive to offer prizes to fundraisers As if raising money for children’s hospitals wasn’t incentive enough already, the organizers behind the Extra Life charity drive have teamed up…
The transition from mobile to home computer is always one met with at least some measure of trepidation. Mapping touch control to the mouse seems like an easy proposition – they’re similar enough to avoid losing anything, after all. Not always is it so straightforward, though. Some games are just better suited for touch devices,…
There are few games out there that can match Rayman Legends. It sets a new standard in charm and creativity, and it should positively be played by just about anyone with even the slightest interest in videogames. Picking up from where Rayman Origins left off, Legends takes everything one step above. It seems Rayman and…
