Review by Matt S. PixelJunk Monsters was the best tower defence game ever developed. It was challenging (like the genre demands), but also beautiful, with a great sense of character and place. Distinctive and interesting thanks to its islander aesthetics, it wasn’t a game that was trying to tell a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Drive on Moscow is the last thing you’d expect to see on a console. Tactics RPGs and even more serious strategy titles like Nobunaga’s Ambition are one thing, but Drive on Moscow is the full grognard experience. The most hardcore of the hardcore. The kind of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One thing I have loved watching over the last few years is the return of the classic simulator. After years of having the likes of EA butcher Sim City, and Atari drive Rollercoaster Tycoon into the dirt, it has been so refreshing to watch titles like…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s something about Unholy Heights that convinces me to keep buying it. I have it on Nintendo 3DS, then I bought it on PlayStation 4, and now Nintendo Switch. So there’s clearly something about it. It might be something as simple as the combination of comfortable…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Publisher, Raw Fury and developer Plausible Concept, have announced a new game, Bad North. Bad North bills itself as a “real time tactics roguelite,” and while I’ve become instantly wary of any game calling itself a “roguelike” (most developers don’t seem to have actually played Rogue),…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The rarest of rare – the absolute roc’s teeth – in console gaming is the grand strategy genre. There are so, so few attempts at bringing serious strategy games based on real-world conflicts that, as a fan of the genre but who doesn’t generally like playing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Real Time Strategy and JRPG mixed together with a stunning art style? Sign me the heck up. Bandai Namco has announced Record of Grancest War for the PlayStation 4, and it promises to be everything I want in a videogame. The teaser trailer, below, shows you…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Unfrozen is a new developer that works out of St Petersberg in Russia. Its debut game, Iratus: Lord of the Dead, is one interesting title indeed. Basically the game’s looking to mix the satirical villainry of the brilliant Dungeon Keeper with the roguelike gameplay of Darkest…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Legend of CaoCao is a new free-to-play game that has been released on mobile devices by Nexon and Koei Tecmo, and it’s surprisingly good. Before I get to that though, you’ll see through this article I refer to “The Legend…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Circle Entertainment has done a clever thing in packaging up the three Mercenaries Saga games for release on the Nintendo Switch. On the one hand, each game in the series is almost a painfully generic take on the tactics JRPG genre. On the other, bundled up…
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