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I don’t know if I’m just a bit of a hermit, but it’s rare that I actually sink my teeth into an exclusively multiplayer experience. Sure, some of it is just not wanting to deal with toxic people in chat. However, some of it comes down to the feeling that...
Roguebook is a roguelike deckbuilding game developed by Abrakam Entertainment and published by Nacon. Abrakam Entertainment developed the game in partnership with Richard Garfield, who’s known for his work on games like Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, and RoboRally. Card game fans might also recognise Roguebook’s setting from Faeria, since Roguebook...
Last year Square Enix and classic JRPG fans were absolutely spoilt rotten. Final Fantasy VII Remake hit the PlayStation 4, completely remaking the Midgar section of the beloved RPG adventure. It was a sure-fire hit of a reimagination. Fast forward a calendar year and some months and the remake has...
Explore the lively city of Metropolis with the cast of the popular cartoon in DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power. Playing as Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Batgirl, this action game mixes up the crime-fighting with high school antics. First announced earlier this year, this social romp comes from the talented...
Quickly proving they are one of the most consistent AAA game studios in the industry is Insomniac Games, known most recently for the PlayStation exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man games and now for the interdimensional adventure, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Releasing as a PS5 exclusive and taking full advantage of the...
I consider myself a bit of a tourist when it comes to fighting games. I have dabbled across many different fighting franchises and achieved a fair level of competency in each one, without ever really putting in the hard yards to master any particular game. Guilty Gear -Strive-, from Arc...
Like many others in their 20’s or 30’s, my introduction to the stock market started with ‘stonk’ memes and GameStop. Despite my limited knowledge of stocks, I was still interested in checking out a game based on the subject matter. Whilst The Invisible Hand didn’t turn out to be the...
Welcome back to the Gates of Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood faces players with the Daedric threat. With over 18 million players, The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is one of the largest and most successful western MMOs to date. With each annual chapter DLC comes a slew of new...
World’s End Club first released on iOS last year. If you’re surprised to hear that, don’t be – we hadn’t heard one peep about the game until it was first announced to be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2021. Set in an alternate 1990s Japan, the game follows 12...
Joining Untitled Goose Game in the oddly specific “indie games centred around mischievous waterfowl” genre is Mighty Goose, a love letter to classic arcade run and gun games, featuring a bounty hunter goose in power armour for some strange reason. While retro nostalgia is a well many indie developers have...
What if DOOM Eternal was set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe? Necromunda: Hired Gun is a fast-paced first-person shooter that attempts to make this mashup game a reality. Streum On Studio offers an action-packed game with role-playing elements and a mechanical dog companion to rip and shred the gangsters of...
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is a turn-based strategy game developed by Gasket Games and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe, which was originally developed by Games Workshop, and features three different factions. The release marks the first step...
