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It’s been a long time since we’ve had a Prince of Persia game – 14 years in fact – and it’s been even longer since we’ve had a 2D entry in the long-running series. So quite understandably, a lot of people were excited by the announcement of Prince of Persia:...
It’s a cold, grey dawn in a dank alley on the East End. Snoring among empty liquor bottles and barrels of rotten herring lies a sprawled, dishevelled minotaur, top hat askew and horns coated in week-old grime. He opens a bleary, bloodshot eye and feverishly winces at the morning sky,...
Born of Bread
Thanks to its resemblance to the beloved Paper Mario series, Born of Bread immediately captivates fans eagerly awaiting a similar experience. Unfortunately, I am not one of them, but this doesn’t weaken the charm that Born of Bread brings from the moment you started playing.
House Flipper 2 is the aptly named follow-up to 2018’s House Flipper, developed in Poland by Red Dot Games, Empyrean Games and published by Frozen District. Development for the sequel started all the way back in 2020 and the size of the development team has more than doubled compared to...
Trinity Fusion is a fast-paced roguelike hack and slash platformer developed by Angry Mob games. Now having reached its full release atfer several months in Steam Early Access, the delightful and surprisingly deep combat system and fun multiversal concept is enough to keep one engaged for hours, at least until...
The year is 1986. Bob Hawke is Prime Minister, Neighbours debuts, and Hawthorn wins the VFL Grand Final. But we’re not in Australia, instead, we’re in Tornado Valley. In Bahnsen Knights, you play as undercover agent Boulder, who’s assigned to investigate the Bahnsen Knights cult. Your oldest friend Cupra investigated...
Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone respected your authority everywhere you go? That’s the feeling you experience with Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader when you suddenly inherit the titular position. Everyone bows down to you and listens to your every word. The only problem is, you gain this position during a...
The anime franchise Naruto has graced our lives for 21 years. This is even longer when you consider the original manga. With that, NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS is a new 3D fighter title for the franchise all focused on celebrating the classic Shonen Jump series. For such a...
It’s been 25 years since the first title in the Dragon Quest Monsters series hit the shelves. Taking the core gameplay of Dragon Quest and mixing it up with a monster-collecting twist, at least one of these titles has made its home on every generation of a Nintendo handheld console...
I’ve been an avid fan of real-time strategy games for a long damn time. In fact, I’m old enough to have basically grown up in parallel to the entire genre. Unfortunately, this also means that as these games have evolved to become faster and faster over the years, my reflexes...
It’s always a hard job adapting IP into video games. Harder yet is the task of adapting James Cameron’s Avatar, still one of the best-selling yet also retrospectively contentious franchises to date. With Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, this is, somehow, Ubisoft’s second stab at the series. Though it’s the most prolific, cinematic...
It’s not often I think about the Scottish highlands. Over here on the other side of the world, it can be easy to mistake Scotland for just another part of England, but to the North; without its own culture, history, or mythology. So it’s good for a work like A...
