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Like many others in their 20’s or 30’s, my introduction to the stock market started with ‘stonk’ memes and GameStop. Despite my limited knowledge of stocks, I was still interested in checking out a game based on the subject matter. Whilst The Invisible Hand didn’t turn out to be the...
Welcome back to the Gates of Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood faces players with the Daedric threat. With over 18 million players, The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is one of the largest and most successful western MMOs to date. With each annual chapter DLC comes a slew of new...
Joining Untitled Goose Game in the oddly specific “indie games centred around mischievous waterfowl” genre is Mighty Goose, a love letter to classic arcade run and gun games, featuring a bounty hunter goose in power armour for some strange reason. While retro nostalgia is a well many indie developers have...
World’s End Club first released on iOS last year. If you’re surprised to hear that, don’t be – we hadn’t heard one peep about the game until it was first announced to be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2021. Set in an alternate 1990s Japan, the game follows 12...
What if DOOM Eternal was set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe? Necromunda: Hired Gun is a fast-paced first-person shooter that attempts to make this mashup game a reality. Streum On Studio offers an action-packed game with role-playing elements and a mechanical dog companion to rip and shred the gangsters of...
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is a turn-based strategy game developed by Gasket Games and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe, which was originally developed by Games Workshop, and features three different factions. The release marks the first step...
Knockout City shows how a relatively simple premise of throwing dodgeballs at one another can make for a very engaging multiplayer experience. Through its bombastic presentation and “easy-to-lean, hard-to-master” gameplay, Knockout City has really grabbed me so far. Hopefully the developers will continue to add more content down the line...
If you asked me what games in Nintendo’s backlog are begging for a Switch port, I wouldn’t even clock 2017’s Miitopia. The game serves as a very basic RPG adventure where players control a party of Miis, which are those little Nintendo custom avatars you first created all the way...
Operation: Tango is a co-op puzzle-solving game for two players. Choosing to play as either the Agent or Hacker, two players take on the role of a secret agent just like in the movies. One person in the field and the other ‘the man behind the screen’ – who could...
Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) players have long wished for a true representation of the popular tabletop experience in video game form and Solasta: Crown of the Magister seems to do just that. The turn-based tactical role-playing game uses the System Reference Document (SRD) 5.1 Ruleset to base how the entire...
Subnautica: Below Zero is the sequel to 2018’s Subnautica, changing things up by taking place in a frozen tundra and tasking you with exploring the freezing ocean depths to craft, build, and ultimately survive. But does Below Zero bring enough to the table to warrant your time and surveying skills?
Biomutant was announced back in 2017 by a developer called Experiment 101, a team that comprised of former Avalanche Studios employees that had worked on the loved Just Cause series. While those games were at least grounded in reality with human characters and storylines, Biomutant feels like a breath of...
