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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me is the season finale of The Quarry and Until Dawn developer Suppermassive’s first horror anthological series. It’s more of the same known formula: control a group of individuals in a horrific and deathly setting, making choices and completing QTE prompts to hopefully make it out alive. While...
What happens when your world is suddenly turned upside down by forces you don’t understand? Somerville throws you into such a situation when unexplained phenomena disrupt your character’s idyllic life with his family. Given a strange power that can clear away unknown structures, you must find a way to reunite...
“The revelations we experience can be terrifying to us and to those who witness us experiencing them.”
Let’s be honest. We’re long past the day where being a horse girl is in. Australian television series The Saddle Club hasn’t graced our screens for a long time. The Barbie Horse Adventures series hasn’t had a release since 2008. Equestrian games have undoubtedly died out, much like licensed video games. So I was excited...
Modern Warfare II is considered to be the pinnacle of Call of Duty multiplayer design. Many years have passed since the simple days of online lobbies and split screen multiplayer; we now live in the age of live-service gaming, constant seasonal updates and changes being made almost daily. The newly...
Tactics Ogre: Reborn is the first game in the Ogre Battle series to release in over a decade. Reborn serves as a remaster of Tactics: Ogre Let Us Cling Together, a 2010 PSP remake of the 1995 SNES game of the same name. A long and storied legacy has come...
The Chant
The Chant comes from new developer Brass Token, who clearly have a love of 70s horror aesthetic, with the hopes of bringing that vibe to a modern survival horror video game. They call it a cosmic-horror, which ties into some of its themes around spirituality and its “this is clearly...
Have you finished playing Unpacking and thought to yourself, “I wish I had more puzzle/organisation video games in my life”? Well, you’re in luck! From the small Canadian indie studio, Max Inferno, comes a cozy puzzle game called A Little to the Left. While the game itself doesn’t have an obvious...
It is safe to say that Sonic Frontiers is one of the most anticipated games of the year. This is the blue blurs first big title since Sonic Forces almost five years ago. During his gaming hiatus the speedy little hedgehog has been on a roll with two highly successful...
Spooky season had just arrived and, as a resident scaredy cat, I thought it might be fun to dip my feet into a relatively mild horror game. Yomawari: Lost in the Dark reminded me of the classic RPG horror games I played as a teen—Corpse Party, Mad Father, Ib, The...
Not many would question that God of War (2018) is one of the most successful franchise “reboots” in history, taking a strong action-adventure series and propelling it into a new cinematic experience. It captured the feeling of the best AAA blockbusters with a heart and soul that reframed its violent...
Star Ocean: The Divine Force is the latest in Square Enix and Tri-Ace’s long-running RPG franchise which combines Star Trek-esque sci-fi and fantasy. After a bit of a stumble with the divisive last game, Integrity and Faithlessness, this most recent entry is mostly a promising return to form, bringing back...
