Preview by Harvard L. The recent stories about harsh indie gamedev working conditions, triple-A microtransaction scandals and oversaturation of digital platforms are necessary, but they can have a nasty side effect making the general public forget that game design can be fun and exciting. There is a palpable barrier between…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Gal*Gun 2’s full release in the west is only a few weeks away now, so we’re busy playing through it for a review at DDNet. Meanwhile, we’ve had the opportunity to do a hands-on preview video, showcasing our first hour with the game. This game will…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Amid Evil is Heretic, in some alternate universe where FPS games stayed weird, niche and mechanics focused. I’ll admit when the game arrived in my inbox I did a double take, since I had reviewed DUSK mere weeks ago and many of the praises I can…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I had a chance to mosey on over to Bandai Namco and test out two of its upcoming games; Ni No Kuni 2 (due next month) and Soulcalibur VI (due eventually). In short: boy is Namco in for a good year this year. I haven’t played…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I had a chance to mosey on over to Bandai Namco and test out two of its upcoming games; Ni No Kuni 2 (due next month) and Soul Calibur VI (due eventually). In short: boy is Namco in for a good year this year. Related reading:…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. As one of the biggest fans of the Yakuza series out there, I’ve been looking forward to Yakuza 6 with baited breath. Now I’m starting my play through for review and here’s my impressions from the first couple of hours. Related reading: My review of Yakuza…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. After a triumphant return to the very roots of the modern RPG with Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian went to Kickstarter, as it had for the original, to finance a sequel, subtitled Deadfire. Currently moving into a closed beta for backers and the reviewing community alike, the…
Read MorePreview by Matt C. Next Up Hero is a strange beast to describe. It’s fundamentally a twin-stick shooter, but with elements of hack-and-slash, hero shooter, roguelike, and asynchronous co-op, it’s unlike any any other twin-stick shooter I’ve played. The game takes place within a world of songs, hitch is under…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. A game that I really enjoy, but haven’t written about much in the past, is Ziggurat. I picked it up about a year or so ago on a whim, and found myself really enjoying the way that it combined Heretic or Hexen-like dark fantasy FPS action…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. PQube will launch French Bread’s latest 2D fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], in early February for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 (no, really), and PlayStation Vita. We’ve got a solid month before we can run a review of the game, but we figured we’d give people a…
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