News by Matt S. This is a short piece of news, but since it involved the local Australian games industry, I feel compelled to write about it. The Aussie-made (Massive Monster development studio) Cult of the Lamb is going to be getting a release on consoles. It was previously released…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Leonard Menchiari makes memorable games. The Eternal Castle was a brilliantly brutal and innovative thing, and RIOT: Civil Unrest is one of those art game things that take a very sincere look at what causes humanity to flare up like that. Menchiari’s…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. We haven’t had the time or bandwidth to review roguelike deckbuilding experience, Inscryption, but this game has all the hallmarks of becoming a cult classic. Harvard absolutely loved his time with it in preview stage and, once we start to clear out the backlog, we do…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. It’s weird that for as long as The Legend of Zelda has been a series, we still don’t have a defined term for that game’s genre. Internet commenters frequently debate whether Zelda should be considered an RPG, and the official title of “action-adventure” is so vague…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. From its beginning, Boomerang X seems like it’d be a pretty unassuming game – the player washes up on a beach, comically tosses away a survival knife, and finds a four-bladed weapon (it looks more like a shuriken, but the game’s called Boomerang X so we’ll…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. The first thing Acid Nerve’s top-down action game, Death’s Door, has going for it – it GIFs really well. Check out the team’s Twitter and you’ll find multiple crunchy loops of a well-timed sword swing bouncing a projectile back at an enemy, and it’s just so…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. So one of the more interesting things to become a trend from this year’s E3 came out of nowhere; not one, but TWO companies announced physical-only game releases. You will not be able to buy and download them, ever. The only way to get a copy…
Read MoreNews bt Matt S. Maverick publisher, Devolver Digital, has announced Terra Nil, a game by Free Lives. Terra Nil is a city builder with a difference; rather than paving over paradise to put up parking lots, your job in Terra Nil is environmental rejuvenation. You’ll need to guide the land…
Read MoreI’m going to be honest, Essays on Empathy is precisely the kind of game that I would purchase, and then inevitably let languish in my Steam library because I’m never “in the mood”. Such has been my tendency of late when it comes to art games; there are dozens that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Developed by Deconstructeam (what a name) and Devolver Digital, Essays on Empathy looks like exactly the kind of narrative-driven experience that I want to support. Releasing on PC next month (May 18), Essays on Empathy is a compilation of ten short stories about life. As per…
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