Nathan Birch
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Video games and Vikings go together like a battle axe and an unprotected skull. From God of War to The Banner Saga, to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the gaming realm has been overrun with Vikings in recent years, and now Tribes of Midgard from new Canadian developer Norsfell Games has come...
Cris Tales
Cris Tales is a unique blend of ideas and influences. In my two previews of the game, I most frequently compared to the game to Paper Mario, which is still apt, but the game also borrows from other 16 and 32-bit JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and Valkyrie Profile, classic Disney...
Does a JRPG have to be made in Japan? Perhaps more to the point, is it possible to make a good JRPG outside of Japan? Plenty of Western-developed titles, from Secret of Evermore, to Child of Light, to the countless RPG Maker projects hitting Steam every month have tried to...
Mario has tried his hand at plenty of pastimes over the years, but for whatever reason, it seems the laidback sport of golf is the usually-hyper plumber’s favorite. Mario’s club-swinging obsession began with the NES black-box classic Golf back in 1985, and following numerous sequels on almost every Nintendo platform,...
Video games do destruction all too well, but Canadian indie developer Greg Lobanov seems to have made it his mission to focus on the constructive and creative. Lobanov is following up his winsome music-focused project Wandersong with Chicory: A Colorful Tale, an innovative new Zelda-esque adventure that lets players paint...
Games Workshop has found success with an impressively wide range of video game genres, and yet, there’s never really been a great first-person-shooter set in the Warhammer universe. A bit odd considering the franchise’s obsession with giant guns! Enter Necromunda: Hired Gun, the latest effort from Streum On Studio, who...
Resident Evil 7 was a major gamble, introducing a bold new setting, mechanics, and concepts to Capcom’s then-flagging horror franchise, and thankfully, the big bet paid off. Since then, Capcom has largely been coasting on the momentum RE7 provided them with a series of well-made but not-terribly-risky remakes. Well, the...
This is a big year for Sony’s long-running MLB The Show franchise, at least from a business standpoint. With MLB The Show 21, the series takes its first tentative step onto next-gen systems and, even more significantly, Xbox consoles. In fact, in a rather unexpected turn of events, this Sony-developed...
Sometimes it’s good to be bad. Sure, James Bond is cool and all, but occasionally you’d rather be Ernst Blofeld commanding lackeys, torturing spies, and petting Persian cats. The original Evil Genius aimed to fulfill that fantasy, allowing players to design their own elaborate supervillain lair. A sequel was supposed...
Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares certainly doesn’t lack ambition. His last game, A Way Out, was an innovative and affecting co-op crime drama built on an indie budget, and his latest project, It Takes Two, pushes things even harder. In Fares’ own always-colorful words, his new puzzle-platformer-shooter-dungeon-hack-flight-sim-rom-com (to mention just...
The Roguelike express shows no signs of slowing down. The once-niche genre has exploded in popularity in recent years with countless games from developers both big and small flooding the market. The novelty of dying and retrying arguably wore off a while ago, and yet, just when you think you...
The mere existence of Hitman 3 sometimes feels like a minor miracle. It’s rare for each entry in a trilogy to have a different publisher, but somehow Agent 47’s latest trio of games have pulled off the improbable feat – Square Enix ditched the Hitman franchise (and its developers) back...
