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I should not have liked Beyond Blue. For one, science isn’t my thing. I literally nearly failed science in high school. Me, an artsy book worm, didn’t love the whole practical element of science classes. Also, I mainly play RPGs or looter shooters, not slow paced narrative adventures. Therefore, it...
Video games based on licensed properties are not usually given much credit, and understandably so. Spongebob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was a 3D collectathon platformer starring everyone’s favourite sea sponge. The original title became a cult classic back in 2003 for actually being quite well-made, and capturing the charm...
Waking
I’ve played quite a fair few video games that explore mental illness or death. Fractured Minds offers a realistic and unique way to experience death. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice allowed me to understand further what it’s like to live with psychosis. Hell, even upcoming game Spiritfarer explores these themes in an emotional and...
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection is a real-time strategy game developed by Petroglyph Games and Lemon Sky Studios, published by EA. The remastered collection bundles the 1995 classic Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and the 1996 follow-up Command & Conquer: Red Alert together in one neat package. It also includes...
Summer In Mara has come to us at almost the perfect time. With everyone still stuck inside and looking for any way to escape to the great outdoors, this seafaring farming sim was at the top of my games to play list. The game started its life as a successful...
Its been roughly fourteen years since we last saw a game from the Desperados series. During that time the game has not only changed publisher but developer as well. Spellbound Entertainment is sadly no longer leading the charge, instead passing the buck over to Mimimi Games. Known mostly for their...
It is difficult to think of a sequel that has as much anticipation and expectation behind it as The Last of Us Part II. The original arguably defined a generation, proving to be a wonderfully provocative swansong for the PlayStation 3, pushing the hardware to its absolute limits. It created...
1971 Project Helios is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Recotechnology S.L. It combines aspects of modern warfare military tactics and close combat.
Connecting the line between real-time strategy (RTS) and first-person shooter (FPS), Disintegration attempts an exciting mix of genres. From the co-creator behind Halo and Myth: The Fallen Lords, Marcus Lehto and his new studio V1 Interactive launch a possibly long-running sci-fi universe for fans to dive into. This interesting meld...
A surprising amount of game development is “polish”. The core mechanics and art is a lot of work, have no doubt. But it’s fixing the UI, making the animations smooth, figuring out how to teach the basics, fixing bugs and the like that takes a lot of time and energy....
Return to the wintery region of Skyrim — once again — with the newest major Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) expansion, the Greymoor Chapter. The snow-swept area of Western Skyrim introduces to Tamriel an ancient vampiric threat and another standalone story. Many fans are rightfully eager to finally experience Skyrim with...
Sometimes, video game and graphic novel narratives aren’t all that dissimilar. Bombastic, over the top, stories can be aplenty. The two can allow for some minute by minute, or even second by second, means of telling a story. So much emotion, impact and emphasis can be explored in a single...
