News by Matt S. One of the more controversial games of last year, Killer is Dead is the work of transgressive, surrealist game maker Goichi Suda, and it certainly pushed the buttons of a lot of people. Criticised for being exploitative (or even misogynistic), incomprehensible, and various other things, when…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. It’s funny to think that Gigantic Army is set in an alternate reality where by 2009, mankind has already invented the warp drive and dove headfirst into interplanetary warfare. The game itself feels like it belongs in an alternate reality where the Nintendo 64 and Playstation…
Read MorePreview by Shaan J. I’ll be the first one to say that I love rhythm and music video games. It’s refreshing to see a merger of music of all kinds and games; from standard games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all the way to hybrids like Rez or Child…
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. Paper Sorcerer is one of those successful Kickstarter projects that has been released to the exact specifications that were promised in its Kickstarter campaign. If you didn’t back the original campaign, be sure to go and pick up this cheap little indie game. Because it’s ace.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Blackguards had the potential to be something truly exceptional, promising a deep tactical RPG experience with a penchant for extreme difficulty and hexes. That’s right, hexes! Strategy gamers love hexes. Someone should have then explained to the developers, Daedalic Entertainment, that if you are going to…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Ubisoft released Might & Magic X today; a game that it has billed as an old-school RPG to appeal to people who still remember loading up games through DOS. I’ve only spent around four hours in the game so far, which is a scratch on the…
Read MoreToday in the Wrap GOG.com scores big for charity, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z goes live as a digital-only comic, Etherium actually looks to do something different with the RTS genre and goblins are fashionable again in Styx: Master of Shadows. GOG.com charity drive takes in $1.9 million Did you pick…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Courtesy of Ghostlight, Compile Heart’s weird and wonderful strategy RPG, Agarest: Generations of War Zero, is headed to a PC near you. Staring a fellow called Sieghart and as befits a Compile Heart game, plenty of women, players can expect around 80 hours of hardcore, turn-based…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. How could a developer – even one as experienced in producing strategy games as Paradox Development Studio – possibly hope to add to the experience of the near-perfect Europa Universalis IV? A game that deep, that rich with content, couldn’t possibly offer even more through an…
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