Review by Lindsay M. It’s quiet in outer space. Deafeningly so. But inside space stations, all becomes bustling again. The whir of machines. Voices traveling down hallways. Doors opening and closing. Beeping computers. Cutlery clanking. So when you enter a large research station to only the sound of the engines,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Betrayal is a common theme in Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. We first meet our young king protagonist as he desperately flees a coup organised by one of the chief retainers of his father. A few hours later, our team of intrepid heroes prove their…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Think back to when the PlayStation 4 was new and shiny. People were excited about what Ubisoft would do with the extra power of the hardware with its moneymaker Assassin’s Creed franchise. After all, a series that is all about massive open worlds and historical epic…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yakuza games can be such a glorious mess at times. Each title in the series pulls together so many completely disparate elements that the end result is a weird, and often downright surreal, soup of gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, tone and themes. And yet the overriding fact…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Get ready for the waves of controversy, folks! The sequel to Gal*Gun: Double Peace, which turned more than a few heads when it was released back in 2016, will land on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on April 13 in Europe, and April 24 in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. For the first hour of DJMax Respect, to say I loathed the game would be an understatement. I love rhythm games, as a rule of thumb, and I especially like them when they’re traditional. DJMax’s gameplay system features icons flying from the top of the screen…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. We’ve all discussed it – what video game world we would choose to live in if it were possible. Rad Rodgers takes that well-loved idea one step further and inserts the player into a fourth-wall breaking, self-aware video game experience. The original release escaped my attention…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a passionate fan of the genre, I can say that there just aren’t enough games, films, books and so on written in the noir genre. The glory days, back when Raymond Chandler was captivating audiences with his writing and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were…
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 Matt S. Roguelike FPSers are a rather specific genre, but I do like them. If done well they’ll be fast paced, high action shooters, reminiscent of the Dooms and Heretics of old, and that random level design means that these games can be interesting to play and replay…
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