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We Happy Few
We Happy Few, from Compulsion Games, pretty much embodies the idea of “potential” – its dark atmosphere, mixed with its British humor and psychedelic aesthetic, have caught the eye of many a curious gamer ever since its earliest reveals. But that potential has not quite been realized thus far, as...
Pool Panic
Pool Panic, now out on the Nintendo Switch, is hyped by developer Rekim as “the world’s least realistic pool simulator,” and after playing it I would definitely agree. While it takes its basic cue from the traditional game of billiards, this little game takes demented glee in twisting, warping and...
There’s apparently a lot of little things you have to do when you drive a public transit bus, and Bus Simulator 18 has clearly gone to great pains to replicate them all realistically. You’ve got to manage the lights (exterior and interior), front and rear doors, a ticket machine, wheelchair...
Agony
Back in 2015, indie Kickstarter project Agony (then called “Sacred Agony”) gained a lot of attention by promising to take us on a first-person journey through Hell itself. Since then, screens and videos have only stoked the infernal fires of player interest with their fascinating, sometimes-disturbing teasers of what the...
Dreadnought
Dreadnought, from Six Foot Games, left the Beta stage on December 5th and its floating battleship mayhem has commenced in full force on the PS4. Should you fork over your hard earned money on it? Definitely not … because it’s free to play! See what I did there? But of...
The Sims 4
The Sims has been a hugely popular game series ever since its debut in 2000. That’s because it, perhaps better than any other series of video games, distils the essence of playing God into its purest, most potent form and lets players live out their vicarious fantasies in ways they...
Yono and the Celestial Elephants underwhelms at first, with a simple, cutesy presentation that feels sparse. While lots of color abounds, objects such as bushes, fences, and rocks are very simplistic and their identical design often feels cut-and-paste. Sound effects are minimalistic and definitely don’t add much atmosphere to the...
Back in the 90s, games were games. We didn’t need 1080p, 60 FPS, flimity-flamity – we had pixels and by God, we liked it. Games were simpler but they were fun. Take RollerCoaster Tycoon – we kids would gather around the old Personal Computer and have a ball, just laying...
Yakuza Kiwami
The Yakuza series, popular with fans in its native Japan since its debut title Yakuza was released there in 2005, has remained relatively obscure to players on this side of the Pacific. But that has started to change, largely due to the success of the recent Yakuza 0. Hoping to build on that...
NHL 17
To those who are new to EA’s NHL game series, a bit of background: in 2015, NHL released on the latest-gen consoles to mostly disappointment. Many of the game’s modes had been stripped-out, leaving a lot of longtime fans feeling cheated. Then, last year, NHL 16 represented a comeback of...
At one time, Mars held a mystical and mysterious allure for us Earthlings. We saw its red, lined surface from afar, its size so similar to our own planet’s, and imagined that all sorts of crazy-looking and maybe scary aliens lived there, had an advanced civilization and might even threaten...
