Preview by Harvard L. Herolike is an upcoming Action RPG debuting on Steam’s Early Access, developed by Games Hut. It’s a rouge-lite dungeon crawler with 3D environments and bite-sized action combat scenarios spread out by a linear map. Its surprisingly good production values are unfortunately held back by an inconsistent…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Most people know that the Brothers Grimm, who we owe so much to for the modern fairy tale, offered anything but the Disney magic. As dark deconstructions that centred around themes such as innocence lost, greed, lust and pride, they were much more interested in being…
Read MoreHey! It’s like Diablo, except free! That can’t possibly be bad, right? Well, no. Wrong. Very, very wrong. Gameloft’s model has always been about producing games that are like proper commercial products but then making them free. Or at least, that’s how it defends what it does. I personally just…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. If there’s one trend which I don’t like about modern Western RPGs, it’s the increasing amount of darkness and moral ambiguity which developers are gravitating towards. It just so happens that games like The Witcher, Dragon Age, and Diablo, embrace the themes of gothic fantasy with…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Sacred 3’s been a long time coming, but we were finally promised a late 2014 release in an announcement a couple of weeks ago. There was much rejoicing amongst those that enjoyed Sacred 2, but there was little by way of new media to get us…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The world first saw Echo Prime as a premium price iOS title from Robot Entertainment, a studio that developed titles like Orcs Must Die and Hero Academy and are made up of former employees from Ensemble Studio, the team which developed Age of Empires. It’s a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, I’m glad that Unity is itself taking a hand in publishing games. It’s yet another layer of support for talented indie developers by a company that has done great things for indie game development. But I do hope in the future it…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Blood Knights is one of those games that is a little difficult for me to get a handle on, because I walked away from it feeling as though I enjoyed it more than I probably should have. There are some good ideas, even if none are…
Read MorePath of Exile has really taken the PC game community by storm, and it’s still only in Beta. The work of New Zealand creatives at Grinding Gear Games have achieved positive notority from adopting a completely free-to-play model that is so fair that players want to buy the microtransactions on…
Read MoreWhen the demo for Silent Hill: Book of Memories was released, I wrote with great enthusiasm about how great and important that game was, for both gamers and the Vita itself. Having played the full game I need to revise down my initial impressions a little. That’s not to say…
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