Heave Ho welcomes all manner of players with open arms
How I finally got my girlfriend to like a videogame: a Heave Ho success story.
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Review: The Spirit of the Samurai is a dispiriting experience in feudal Japan
With frustrating combat and linear yet opaque progression, this samurai fails his mission.
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Part 1 & 2 Review
These two games, despite their somewhat short gameplay lifespan, took me an incredibly long amount of time to compose a review. That’s a compliment. First, I need to clarify. I’ve condensed the review for Sorcery! Part 1 and Part 2 together, for one important reason: the foundations for the two are so similar that if…
From E3 2017: Rebellion’s looking to pump some juice into third-person shooting
For as much as people might enjoy taking out tons and tons of Axis forces in a variety of gloriously insane and gory manners in Sniper Elite, it might come out as surprising to most that Rebellion been in game development for way longer than that particular franchise has been around. In fact, one of…
Spring Falls is a short and light puzzle game about water and erosion
Just kick back and let the chill vibes wash over you — and solve some fun puzzles along the way.
Review: You wear many shoes but have no feet to speak of in Avenging Spirit
Ratalaika Games brings back an obscure platformer with a very neat twist with Avenging Spirit.
Preview: Loopmancer aims to offer a Chinese take on time-looping cyberpunk
Loopmancer is still some way off release but it shows some promise.
From E3 2017: Aquanox: Deep Descent looks like a promising revival
THQ Nordic has been making a habit of reviving old franchises recently. With the announcement of Darksiders 3 in May, the release of older games in the THQ library like de Blob to Steam, and now picking up the Kickstarted revival of Aquanox, the company seems to have an interest in the past. I got…
Downwell Review – Watch your step
Within a couple hours of starting the PS4 version of Downwell, I got to the final level for the first time. I put several hours in on the PC version last year and never got even close to reaching it, always foiled by the swarms of stuff in the penultimate level. Upon making it to…
Get a Job! How I came to love multitasking in FFXIV
Final Fantasy XIV’s the one the best MMOs available, and it’s easy to get lost in its extensive job system. A brief account of how much I’ve been enjoying an array of different game activities.