News by Matt S. Bandai Namco has announced the latest in its long-running Idolmaster series. The Idolmater: Starlit Season. It will be coming to PlayStation 4 and PC, and will release this year in Japan. It will follow the path of most of the series. You play s a producer…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Welcome to 2020! I hope you all had the most wonderful break. And now it’s time to get back into the video game criticismsssss… and first up I wanted to chat about a little city builder that caught my attention over the Christmas break. Dawn of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s nothing that quite compares to this game, in which you get to measure your daughter’s growing bust and hip dimensions on her way to (hopefully) catching the eye of the kingdom’s prince. No, wait, let me rephrase that in a way that doesn’t sound completely…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. How does this series keep pulling me back, year after year? The previous two years of FM Touch are both in the top five Nintendo Switch most played games, and here we are with FM 2020 immediately accumulating more hours across more sleepless nights than I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have one issue with Transport Fever 2, which I’m going to throw into the introduction, so I can then talk about everything that I love about this game: unlike most other transport business simulators there are no rivals, AI or player. In Transport Fever 2…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. If you found a lost phone on the ground, what would you do? Would you pick it up? Would you actively try to find the owner, or passively wait for someone to ring it? Now what if that phone was left at your doorstop, and when…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. In the latest in Harvard’s series of Let’s Plays, looking at the games you should absolutely be checking out, he takes a look at Soko Loco, a ridiculously charming little city building simulator. In the Let’s Play he takes you through all the main gameplay features,…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I wonder how long it will be before “tycoon games” start to instead be known as “planet games”. That certainly seems to be the goal of Frontier Developments — after a very successful spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon in 2016’s Planet Coaster, the studio has now…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Planet Coaster, Frontier Development’s lauded theme park management simulator, is finally coming to console! Due on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in summer 2020 (that’s winter for those of us in the southern hemisphere), Planet Coaster on console will be the same full experience, end-to-end, that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. City builders – or similarly-themed “builder” simulators – are a favourite genre of mine, but only when a developer gets them right. Entries into this genre feature a great deal of number crunching, and require that players have a good nose for design, balancing, statistics, and…
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