News by Matt S. FINALLY! As much as we love Civilization (and we really, really do), strategy fans have been waiting for ages and ages for Firaxis to head back to the stars… the same place that served as inspiration for the truly awesome Alpha Centurai. And so I think…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In August, The Evil Within launches. A project from Mr. Resident Evil, Shinji Mikami, we’ve been promised from the outset that this would be a classic survival horror game, with emphasis on “survival” and “horror.” I’ve been a skeptic. Not because I don’t think Mikami is…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s amazing the longevity that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are showing. Even despite the existence of new consoles, both “obsolete” consoles continue to receive game announcements that are, if anything, more exciting than the next-gen stuff. Ubisoft today announced that it would publish a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. VooFoo continues on its quest to get Pure Chess on to every gaming platform known to man with a PlayStation 4 version of the game to land on April 15 in the US, or April 16 for Europeans. Although we had our issues with the recently-released…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. When you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Recently the first tidbits of Assassin’s Creed: Unity were leaked out of Ubisoft’s towers. Rather than try to downplay the leaks, Ubisoft has decided to formally release a “sneak peak” minute of very early footage of the game. Unity…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Sacred 3’s been a long time coming, but we were finally promised a late 2014 release in an announcement a couple of weeks ago. There was much rejoicing amongst those that enjoyed Sacred 2, but there was little by way of new media to get us…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Child of Light is an upcoming platformer/ RPG from Ubisoft that makes use of the Ubiart framework (which also powered Rayman Origins and Legends) to create a truly spectacular looking experience. We don’t know how it plays right now, of course, but the visual style alone…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s no secret that I love Atelier games, with the recent Atelier Escha & Logy getting a maximum score from me for being, well, exceptional. So it should come as no surprise that I was very excited indeed to see the first teaser trailer of Gust’s Project…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Overnight, Warner Bros. announced a revival of the classic Midway franchise, Gauntlet. Those of us old enough to remember spending time at arcades will also remember Gauntlet as a top-down dungeon hack, where players would need to continue either adding more coins to the machine, or…
Read MoreNews by Shaan J. While military focused shooters are a dime a dozen these days, Polish developer 11 bit studios are attempting to shift the focus to the civilians, in its newest game, titled ‘This War of Mine’.Rather than focus on the military efforts focused on in most games in…
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