Nathan Birch
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Grid Legends
You usually know what you’re getting with Codemasters’ various racing series. The F1 games are an ultra-detailed ode to everything Formula One and Dirt is all about gritty off-road-racing spectacle, but the Grid games are somewhat harder to pin down. The series’ precise focus and spot on the arcade-to-sim spectrum...
Trying to follow the development of Dying Light 2 Stay Human over the past several years has been a bit of a rollercoaster. The game was announced with much fanfare at E3 2018 and showed off a very impressive demo at E3 2019, but then creative director Chris Avellone left...
Is there still room for originality in the world of Diablo-style action RPGs? While games like Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, or Wolcen are entertaining in their own right, they often feel like they’re just tweaking established ARPG mechanics and presentation. Well, Canadian developers DrinkBox Studios (previously of Guacamelee! fame)...
2016’s Hyper Light Drifter didn’t reinvent any wheels, but it was a stylish, mechanically-sound Legend of Zelda homage and a generally promising debut for California-based developer Heart Machine and its founder Alx Preston. Over five years later, Heart Machine and Preston return with Solar Ash, a game that shares some...
Jurassic World Evolution was a great idea on paper – who doesn’t want to play John Hammond and lord over their very own dinosaur amusement park? Unfortunately, while its reptilian stars were impressive, the game felt a bit shallow and didn’t really capture the excitement or wonder of the Jurassic...
Most games are lucky if they can successfully put a small spin on an existing genre, but there’s an elite few that transcend categories, changing the gaming landscape as we know it. The PS2 Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft...
Extreme sports games had their moment back in the late 90s and early 2000s, before hitting the skids hard and largely disappearing. In more recent years there’s been some halting attempts to restart the genre, but nothing had quite stuck. Well, Ubisoft is hoping extreme sports fans have an appetite...
Lemnis Gate
Is there still room for innovation in the first-person shooter market? Sometimes it feels like everything’s already been done and anything new on the scene is just trying to be another something – another Call of Duty, another Overwatch, another Fortnite. Despite this somewhat stagnant state of affairs, freshman Montreal-based...
Indie space exploration games have had a bit of a moment in recent years, with everything from No Man’s Sky to Outer Wilds letting players tackle that final frontier. That said, most of these games are still rather fanciful, not really showing how challenging and intimidating venturing to new worlds...
There aren’t many things in this increasingly divided world that everyone can still agree on, but Planet Earth is one of them (the BBC series, not the actual planet – that’s as divisive as ever). Who doesn’t enjoy watching animals doing weird things in HD while David Attenborough gently narrates?...
Aragami 2
It doesn’t matter how well you hide, there’s just no escaping the stealth genre these days. In addition to a steady deluge of dedicated stealth games, it seems like every other AAA adventure has the player creeping around at some point. Despite this stealth oversaturation, the indie ninja game Aragami...
Recapturing the magic of a cult classic, especially one as unique as No More Heroes, is no easy task, but Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) has kept his bizarre epic rolling along with surprising success. No More Heroes 2 was arguably just as good as the original, and while Travis Strikes...
