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Strange Brigade
There’s something satisfying about taking on hordes and hordes of enemies as they all come at you in waves, just waiting to be blown to pieces that move you closer towards your next sweet upgrade or piece of hidden treasure. Strange Brigade taps into this feeling consistently; including a very...
Yakuza Kiwami 2
The Yakuza series stands as a unique marriage of brutal, gritty realism and off-the-wall, insane absurdity. Packed between the opening title and end credits of Yakuza Kiwami 2 is an absolute smorgasbord of experiences that, from the outside, shouldn’t work together as well as they do. The game defies expectations and somehow...
Guacamelee! 2
When making the sequel to a highly-regarded first title, it can be difficult to decide how to proceed. How much do you change, and can you recapture the magic found in the first instalment? 2013’s Guacamelee!, developed by Drinkbox Studios, set a high bar. It had a blend of engaging...
The latest World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, is like comfort food. It’s familair, heartwarming, maybe a little bad for you, but you don’t care: you want it anyway. Battle for Azeroth has succesffuly recaptured my heart back to World of Warcraft with a streamlined questing experience, compelling overarching narrative,...
Phantom Doctrine
Phantom Doctrine is a turn-based spy thriller set in an advanced-tech version of 1983 – a fun mix of wacky James Bond adventure and dry John le Carre mystery. It comes to us from CreativeForge Games, the developer of the 2015 strategy Hard West. They’ve left the wild west behind to...
We Happy Few
We Happy Few may have one of the most absurd and convoluted development histories within gaming. From a small development studio and Kickstarter success to one of Microsoft’s first party developers, Compulsion Games has certainly received a lot of attention during the development of their humble survival game. We’ve also...
Overcooked! 2
The Chefs are back in the kitchen again, slicing and dicing their way to success with Overcooked 2, the latest addition to your party game must-have list and the sequel to the extremely popular Overcooked. The original has been one of those co-ops that everyone must have on their console...
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion looks pretty good on paper. Open world RPG, fast-paced turn-based battles, searching for hidden clues and interrogating baddies, all while sailing the new seas of Ooo while singing sea shanties. All of that, attached to the Adventure Time license, what could go wrong? The...
Semblance
The 2D platforming puzzler has been a staple of the gaming world longer then I’ve been alive, and considering that at my age I’ve already run out of new ideas I can’t believe that the genre would have anything new to offer. Run left to right, jump and maybe use...
Sonic Mania Plus
Last year, 90’s icon Sonic the Hedgehog celebrated his 25th Anniversary with a one-two punch of games. There was the official entry to the Sonic series the “big budget” Sonic Team produced: 3D epic Sonic Forces. The other was a Christian Whitehead produced (with Sonic Team support) fully 2D entry...
Earthfall
Players drop into dreary Pacific Northwest America as up to four different personalities in Holospark’s Earthfall, searching for salvation while fighting off hordes of an alien invasion. The co-op First-Person Shooter (FPS) leads through ten linear levels of extra-terrestrial carnage, innovative defence building, and… not much else.
With the lacklustre Wii U release still fresh in our memories, Nintendo appears to have but one mission this time around when it comes to their latest console, the Nintendo Switch. That mission is to give all the brilliant and highly underrated Wii U games a new home and a...
