Review by Priscilla C. “Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” – Lou Dorfsman Originally available on iOS and PC,…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. As Dontnod Entertainment moves into progressing the Life is Strange series, the biggest question is how the writers could even progress a series when it seemed like the characters from the original were too big to move on from. To quell these doubts the developer created…
Read MoreReview by Tyler T. Detroit: Become Human isn’t exactly subtle in its allusions to racism and slavery. Everything from referencing Jim Crow laws to intense segregation is designed to remind players of the not-so-distant lives that black people had in America. That’s actually fine, as if there’s one thing to…
Read MoreNews by Matt C. A few years ago, developer Nilo Studios released a bizarre, brilliant game called Asemblance. Drawing inspiration from things like Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, it told an surreal, fragmented story about mixed memories and identity crisis. Perhaps the more interesting thing about it, though, was the…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. In The End of the Golden Weather, a classic stage play known to generations of New Zealand students, a young boy lives and struggles through a summer holiday in a small beachside township. Real life and imagination become intertwined for him as tensions rise and the…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Opus: Rocket of Whispers is both incredibly familiar and unlike anything else I’ve ever played. At its core, it’s a post-apocalyptic adventure game with a focus on scavenging for resources in a frozen wasteland, but that’s all in service of a moving, introspective story that pushes…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Whoever managed to come up with the concept for Detective Pikachu deserves real respect for being a mad genius. You look at Pokemon, and everything the franchise has been over the years, and of all the spin-offs you could think of, the last that you would…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We need more games like Mulaka. I don’t say that because it’s a particularly good game to play – it’s a workable action adventure game, and we’ve seen better examples of that out there. But Mulaka is stand out, potent, and important, because it is deeply…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The hardboiled detective novel is a cornerstone of American literary history – authors like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett constructed an anti-hero archetype which is no less than iconic. The image of a sly, quick-witted private detective and an eclectic cast of morally grey suspects is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What new things can you say about a game that has been so comprehensively lauded, discussed and analysed as Shadow of the Colossus has? There is already a wealth of information out there about the game, which for many was the first title that offered substantial…
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