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I’ve been a big fan of Tamagotchi since I was a kid. I even still have all of my original Tamagotchi’s lying around my house, even though these days most of them are in varying stages of deceased. These digital pets have been having a bit of a comeback with...
An adorable platformer that allows players to copy and paste the world around them, Ruffy and the Riverside wraps the magic of late-90s console adventures in a distinctly modern package. Featuring hand-drawn 2D artwork against vibrant 3D-rendered environments, Germany-based developers Zockrates Laboratories have taken the nostalgic bones of classic games...
Some games wear their inspiration on their sleeve. For other games, not only is their whole sleeve made of inspiration, but so is the rest of their outfit. Chronicles of the Wolf, developed by Migami Games, is definitely in the latter category, very strongly evoking the 1990s Castlevania games but...
Nobody was expecting Sloclap, a studio made famous by their martial-arts focused action games, to release a competitive multiplayer football game. The pivot from Sifu initially seems crazy, but I can understand why Sloclap felt they were up to the challenge. The studio has experimented with multiplayer before with Absolver and...
If you ask anyone who owned and played their Nintendo 3DS religiously, “What is the handheld most known for?”, they’ll tell you that it was an awesome little RPG machine with dozens, if not countless, cult hits to sink your teeth into. As someone who didn’t own the console at...
With so many developers pushing barely-changed ports on us and calling them remasters — or worse, remasters that actually ruin the game —we need more to follow ATLUS’ example with RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army. It’s an unwieldy title, but no less so than the original game...
Survival Kids
Ever since Konami started being in the business of making (and publishing) games again for the first time in years, following both the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.1 and last year’s Silent Hill 2 Remake with Bloober Team, all eyes have been on them. Are they back in action? What’s next on...
Dune is a universe absolutely stuffed to the gills with quotes and sayings, enough that fans of the franchise can’t seem to resist bombarding you with them at any vaguely relevant opportunity. This would be more annoying if it weren’t for the fact that most of those quotes are genuinely...
Crown Gambit is a tactical, narrative-heavy card game made by Wild Wits, published by Playdigious Originals. It launched as a Kickstarter campaign back in 2023, and now the full game is here. It’s always wonderful to see a successful Kickstarter campaign come to fruition, and I was especially excited to...
FBC: Firebreak is the newest title from Remedy Entertainment, mostly known for Alan Wake and Control. Unlike those titles, this is a departure from the studio’s usual single-player third-person action stories. FBC: Firebreak is instead a first-person co-op shooter in the vein of Helldivers 2 or Deep Rock Galactic.
Soulslikes are a dime a dozen at this point. This over-saturation was inevitable, given that games like Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls were the catalyst for this specific branch of action RPGs. Naturally, a lot of other games want a taste of this action. Over the years, we’ve had experiences that...
The GEX Trilogy revives a very particular slice of 90s gaming nostalgia. The wisecracking gecko with a remote in one hand and a never-ending stream of one-liners in the other has a special spot in my heart and many others. Gex was cheeky and colourful with all the adult jokes...
