James Paley
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Fox n Forests
Retro games have turned into a major arm of the games industry. Once a curious oddity, the past decade has seen them transform into a significant section of the modern gaming landscape. Often developers will try and evoke the memory of a certain genre or system in order to appeal...
Extinction
Fighting enormous enemies in games has been a time-honored tradition for the whole span of the medium. There’s just something so satisfying about taking down someone who’s several times bigger than you. It makes you feel like a god, like an actual hero. Extinction looks to capture that same feeling...
One way or another, film noir will persist. Although it’s been decades since the genre was in vogue, various stories keep appearing to carry on the tradition. The Red Strings Club is one such story. You’ve got a girl in trouble, death, deception and a mystery that begs to be...
Some adventures are just better with a few friends. Others are downright punishing when you try and go it alone. Nine Parchments, the latest co-op game from Frozenbyte, is an excellent example of that second category. Like the Trine games that came before this one, you really shouldn’t try and...
The entire history of Star Wars games is an attempt to capture the magic in those iconic battle scenes. We’ve endlessly recreated the Death Star trench run and the battle of Hoth on every major game system in the pursuit of that magic. This is what makes Star Wars Battlefront...
If you’ve daydreamed about having the powers of a superhero while also being shouldered with the terrible burden those same powers bring, then Megaton Rainfall may be perfect for you. This PSVR/PS4 title from Pentadimensional Games gives you godlike abilities that can very easily kill hundreds or thousands of innocent...
Morphite
Exploring the galaxy means many things to many different people. Are you seeking out wonder, awe, bloody conquest or total harmony? Maybe you want none of these things. Maybe you just want to relax, to lose yourself in the peaceful rhythms of a pastel, low-poly universe. If for some reason,...
Marvelous Entertainment has graced us with yet another entry in the Senran Kagura series, aka Shinobi Girls with Impossible Boobs. Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash dares to ask the hard-hitting questions. How important is plot? How thin can you stretch it while still claiming your game has a plot at all?...
Fictorum
Fictorum is a fantasy thought experiment of sorts. What if your character wasn’t forced to suffer through hours of tutorials, lessons and narrative checkpoints in order to become an all-powerful murder machine? What if you started the story at a point after all the training montages and spell upgrades? Why,...
Mega Man fans must be in the most curious conundrum these days. There hasn’t been a new title featuring the blue bomber in years, Capcom seemingly content to let the character rest on his laurels. Instead, we’ve gotten guest appearances in games like Super Smash Bros and Marvel vs Capcom,...
Empathy: Path of Whispers is a first-person adventure game that places you in the midst of a dreamscape, a dying world populated only by memories. The atmosphere is haunting, the world itself is eerie and the stories are complex. Yet, there are problems abound that keep it from really coming...
