News by Matt S. For people who aren’t familiar with the name “Pathfinder”, here’s a bit of history for you, on why it’s so cool. The creator of Pathfinder, Paizo, once published two official Dungeons & Dragons magazines for the owner of D & D, Wizards of the Coast. These…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Sometimes a game comes out of nowhere that you would never have expected to see, but it immediately wins you over. Ganbare! Super Strikers is one such example of the game. The work of a Aussie indie developer (I suspect a one-man band), Ganbare! Super Strikers…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. It’s difficult to think of Anima: Gate of Shadows as a game which came out only nine months before Nier Automata. It’s so convincingly similar to a janky, late-PS2-early-PS3 era game which nobody remembers but has just enough redeeming value to be interesting; and that sentiment…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. If you haven’t already played Banner Saga, then stop what you’re doing and get onto that. Pronto. This isn’t a sequel in the vein that Bayonetta 1 and Bayonetta 2 were “sequels,” but are really self-contained experiences. Instead, this is a direct narrative continuation of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Dontnod’s modus operandi is to put players through difficult moral choices. It was brilliantly executed in the masterful Life is Strange, but then that game was effectively a choose your own adventure. And as we all know, games without “gameplay” are immediately relegated to the hyper-niche.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the big successes over at Kickstarter in recent times has been Wild Mage: Phantom Twilight, a an open world action/adventure RPG from Luna Orion studio. It managed to meet plenty of stretch goals beyond its initial funding, and because of this PS4, Xbox One,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have a long history with Kingdom of Loathing (or KoL, as fans fondly know it by). It sustained me through my student years where I couldn’t afford much of anything, let alone games, by being both genuinely free, and online multiplayer focused and therefore endless…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. There’s a certain appeal to brutality from both an aesthetic and a mechanical perspective. Unforgiving yet pristine landscapes feature heavily in video games, like I Am Setsuna and Horizon: Zero Dawn. It’s not solely because of their deadly beauty. It’s more likely because of the psychological…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I love Conan the Barbarian. The sheer pulp fantasy of the brutally dark world sung out to me as a Dungeons & Dragons-loving child back when I first discovered the Weird Tales literary magazine, and with it the likes of Robert E. Howard (the author of…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Choice. Do you chose to give the starving person you come across a bit to eat from what you have? Do you give them money to buy something? Or do you walk away? This is a small decision when compared to the larger one of deciding…
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