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Setting sail across the glistening seas in a picturesque and intriguing world. Windbound is certainly a game that captured imaginations in the months leading up to release. This independent, Australian developed game was being compared to The Legend of Zelda as soon as people started laying eyes on it. Whilst...
I have been playing a lot of racing games lately and that is fine because, good or bad, I do like taking a new racer for a spin. Project CARS is not a series I have much experience with but when the offer is 120 track layouts and multitudes of...
Wasteland 3 is a party-based strategy RPG game developed by InXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver. It’s the latest entry in the Wasteland series and takes place in the cold wastelands of Colorado. The title is released six years after its predecessor, Wasteland 2, which was successfully funded on...
No Straight Roads feels nostalgic in a way that’s hard to describe. There’s something about it that screams ‘2002 action game’. It might be the chunky character design and over the top animations, or maybe it’s the unapologetically loud colours and jaunty music that makes the game feel like a...
“Just like riding a bike” is a statement that doesn’t apply to me. I literally nearly fell off a bike after not riding for about ten years, so it’s kind of ironic that I am reviewing Descenders, a ‘Rogue style’ mountain biking game. Even more ironic is how much I...
Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Infinite Combate is a game made for fans. It’s based on the source material of the same name and features a world filled with wonder, magic, gods and monsters. Too bad it’s not nearly as interesting as that sentence makes...
2018 feels like forever ago but I covered the shock revelation at E3 that Battletoads would be returning for their first game in over 20 years. At the time it was claimed it would feature hand drawn graphics, three-player couch co-op game play and had a tentative release date sometime...
Ah, Peaky Blinders. The popular show that has a Nick Cave song as its theme, features the likes of the ever pretty Cillian Murphy, and is all about men smoking cigarettes, being tough and fighting good in 1900’s London. It’s the latest show to be adapted to a game, resulting...
HB Studios created, in my opinion, some of the best golf video games in recent memory. Their take on the virtual fairway with The Golf Club series showed an understanding and love for the sport that took it beyond just a tie-in. With no specific “name” attached to the title...
Mortal Shell is a new Action RPG in the style of Dark Souls, whilst there are many games within this Souls-like genre now, does Mortal Shell have enough to shine its soul into your life? Mortal Shell is developed by Cold Symmetry and published by Playstack, being Cold Symmetry’s first...
Exploring the world doesn’t mean you need to leave home at all. Asobo Studio’s newest release Microsoft Flight Simulator refreshes the most well-known aviation project. Players can travel the world, with 37,000 airports and detailed environments to couple the intense features of each plane. The eleventh major entry into the...
One of the most successful Early Access titles in recent memory would have to be Risk of Rain 2. The game released onto Steam Early Access alongside PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch back in March of 2019. The game quickly gained a lot of attention as a solid foundation...
