Today was a pretty woeful day in Australia. I don’t want to bore the non-Australians here, but here’s the short version: we’re a country that will be at the forefront of climate change devastation. Today, our Greens political party (who went to the last election on the promise of hard…
Read MoreWhether you’re up to date with the Let it Die lore or not, the upcoming release of a new free melee fighting game for PS4 and PS5 might be enough to pique your interest. It’s not all good news, however! Shuji Ishikawa, producer of Supertrick Games, the development team behind…
Read MoreI haven’t written about Hokko Life for over two years (it was in a catch-up coffee in 2020). The game is very, very customizable life sim about starting over in a new place. Players come to Hokko to settle into a new home (customizable!) and turn the village into a…
Read MoreForget the absolutely dismal Dark Alliance dungeon crawler that was released last year. There was a time where “Dungeons & Dragons” and “Dark Alliance” put together was something worth getting excited about. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was a series of just two games, but they remain two of the better…
Read MoreWe should be talking a lot more about The Dragoness: Command Of The Flame, because it taps into something that we don’t see nearly enough of anymore. It’s releasing in September, and from what I’ve been playing of it, it’s excellent. The lack of chatter about it leaves me worried…
Read MoreA number of us had the unfortunate experience of watching the recent Resident Evil TV series, and we have come away with very strong feelings and opinions indeed (mostly along the lines of “just stop them doing this.”). In this in-depth chat, the podcast team talk about why games often…
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August is a big month for game releases – there is a whole lot coming out, but as we discuss on this podcast, the big question is how much of it is truly worth getting excited by. People are going to be still chewing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3, after all,…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Qureate, a video game publisher and developer based in Tokyo, and a fine purveyor of the smuttiest of fan service, announced Massage Freaks, a rhythm game that was all about touching big-boobed girls all over in time to the music. That game has now been renamed…
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A couple of us on the podcast made the terrible mistake of watching the new Resident Evil television series recently. It really was a mistake – don’t do it to yourselves – but in watching that we realised that there was a good discussion in there about what motivates these TV/film…
Read MoreI’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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