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I miss scratching dogs on their butts. My German Shepherd Rudy used to pry my legs apart with his nose so he could walk halfway between them and wait patiently for me to put down whatever I was holding and scratch his big fluffy posterior. After the Rude Dude crossed...
Jimmy Hawkins, the protagonist of hack n’ slash sci-fi platformer Blackwind just can’t catch a break. The teen is just cruising around on a spaceship with his Dad and WHAMMY – they are attacked, and the ship goes down. Luckily for him, Hawkins’ was inside his father’s newest prototype armour,...
RPGolf Legends
Genre mash-up games, the type of game that fuses together contrasting mechanics and ideas, are gaining traction in indie spaces. If I had to pick one, I’d say my favourite genre mash-up is the Sports RPG. I adore the Sports RPG. It’s a beacon of the balance these mash-ups should...
Be inducted into a corrupt League of Wizards, find true love as a horse, bench press baddies as a Bodybuilder, and create an army of undead as a Zombie—Nobody Saves the World is the newest zany hack and slash game by Guacamelee! developer Drinkbox Studios.
Expanding the Rainbow Six universe into the supernatural for the first time, Rainbow Six Extraction takes the Operators we’ve grown to love over the years in PVP sensation Rainbow Six Siege, and places them against an alien threat that must be vanquished. There’s an intriguing setup and some glimmer of...
Grow: Song of the Evertree has a gorgeously colourful, storybook aesthetic that is instantly captivating. The magical land of Alaria is brought to life with sweeping landscapes and cheerfully comic characters, with moments that range from wholesome to genuinely funny. While the world is realised beautifully, the gameplay mash-up of sandbox...
Waking from a long slumber, the Priestess Ina finds herself trapped in a decaying Tower longing for her homeland Kamiura. Intent on escaping, Ina must traverse the many regions of the Tower, acquire help from eccentric prisoners, decipher difficult puzzles, and flee from the Tower willing to do anything to...
Chorus
Traveling through the cosmos is an experience many games have tried to emulate since their earliest inception. While technology has improved and the vision for what constitutes a video game set in space has grown in scope, Chorus is all about the majestic art of flying a tiny starship with...
With a name like The Gunk, I really didn’t know what to expect. Upon first hearing the name, my eyebrow cocked and my head turned; what on earth could this game be about? As a primarily PlayStation gamer, it is rare I keep super up-to-date with the happenings on Xbox and...
The nineties were a truly wild time. Tips were frosted, denim was doubled, and the Spice Girls versus Backstreet Boys debate tore classrooms apart across the world. This era of chaos gave birth to the oddity that is the Monster Rancher franchise, a creature-collecting series focused on breeding and battling...
Aeterna Noctis is a beautiful and tough-as-nails Metroidvania-style platformer by Spanish developer Aeternum Game Studios. Featuring a sprawling and varied world, difficult platforming challenges, and gorgeous art direction, Aeterna Noctis will be just what fans of games like Hollow Knight and the 2D Castlevania entries have been looking for.
From a MOBA, to a card game, to an auto-battler, and even an exceptional Netflix television show – the League of Legends (LOL) universe of Runeterra continues to expand and pique interest. Now, with the launch of Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, the world of Runeterra once again...
