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Cocoon
Jeppe Carlsen, best known as the lead designer for previous puzzler games Limbo and Inside, is back again with Cocoon, developed with Geometric Interactive. Cocoon can be best categorized as part puzzler, part adventure, part platformer and part exploration game. If you have ever played the iconic puzzle-adventure game, Journey,...
F1 Manager 2023 is Frontier Developments second iteration of their F1 sim. Last year, F1 Manager 22 allowed you to oversee all on and off-track activities of running an F1 Team. Now, as with all sports games, Frontier Development faced the prospect of improving their previous entry.
Amnesia: The Bunker is the latest entry in the Amnesia series of games from developer, Frictional Games. This fifth entry takes a radical departure from previous Amnesia games. It is a contained experience all happening in, yep you guessed it, a bunker. A World War 1 bunker, to be exact.
Gran Turismo 7
PSVR 2 landed on February 22, 2023 and one of the big announcements was the addition of a VR mode for developer, Polyphony Digital’s, Gran Turismo 7. This was an announcement long in coming and one time, before COVID, the expectation was GT7 would be a PSVR 2 launch title.
While playing the first person shooter, Fashion Police Squad for review, I kept expecting Austin Powers to pop up and exclaim, “Oh, Behave!” But does the game have anything going for it aside from a sense of humor?
Rollerdrome
Way back in 1975 there was a science fiction movie, that postulated a world run by corporations, where the major outlet for violence lay in a violently modified and deadly game of roller derby, called Rollerball. Aesthetically, Rollerdrome takes 1970s artistic inspiration from that movie and comic book artist Moebius...
Madison
The horror genre is replete with staple conventions baked in the DNA of the genre. One such convention is the camera that takes pictures, revealing horrific things not seen by the naked eye. MADiSON takes the camera conceit and puts a slight twist on it.
Turbo Overkill
Turbo Overkill is the new kid in the FPS town. The hero of the game goes by the name of Johnny Turbo. As touted by developer – Trigger Happy Interactive – Johnny Turbo is half-metal, half-human and half-crazy. Turbo cybernetic enhancements include hidden arm rockets, and a concealed chainsaw in...
Grid Legends
With Grid Legends, Codemasters has taken a different tack to try and make a racing game that has broad market appeal. Besides the traditional career path that is standard with racing game, Grid Legends has added a Story Mode. In this narrative branch of the game, you play as Driver...
Encased
Encased is an isometric RPG that wears and bears its role-playing roots proudly. It does so but presents an entirely new story. The time is the 1970s, but a version of the 1970’s where the Cold War has ended not because of emerging countries and détentes, but because of the...
Fracked
After playing the demo for Fracked, I was feeling very hyped for the game. Well, the full game has landed and my excitement was mostly justified. Fracked is fun, immersive, gorgeous, and polished. It’s Blood & Truth with full locomotion. But it’s also too short. You can finish the game...
What makes a fictional story exceed its scope and become something more? It’s the same quality that makes a video game rise above its kin. Verisimilitude. The ring of truth. Or, if you prefer, authenticity. Or better yet, feeling real. Sniper Elite VR has that vibe. And because of it,...
