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Hand of Fate 2
Hand of Fate 2 combines cards, fantasy, and storytelling to make a unique RPG experience, though not in the vein of Hearthstone. In this new adventure by Defiant Development, players travel the world with and through a deck of cards. Cards govern everything: gear, encounters, success. Quite a bit of skill and brain...
Rhythm games are built on a tantalizing cycle of rewards and escalating challenge. Your success is often accompanied by bright, colorful and infectious displays that invite you to continue. Super Beat Sports builds on this idea so beautifully, it’s downright tragic there isn’t more game to get into.
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...
Hidden Agenda
Stories in games have come a long way in the past few years. Titles like Firewatch, Life is Strange, and Supermassive’s Until Dawn have pushed video game narratives away from bad action schlock, and towards the realm of the respectable.
King Oddball
Creating a game can be difficult, to say the least. You need a compelling protagonist, an objective for them to complete, and a hook to make the game stand out from the rest. The Nintendo Switch has been going full steam ahead, loading up its library with games big and...
Video game companies strive to give the players what they want, be it a sequel, prequel, spin-off, or other creative outing featuring their unique protagonist. After Naughty Dog’s Nathan Drake had finished adventuring, the Uncharted series continued down a new path. God of War is set to take Kratos out...
After the monumental success of Journey, the indie-game-that-could, it is only natural for there to be a legacy of other indie titles who try to capture a similar magic, come flight or fall. AER Memories of Old visibly takes inspiration from a variety of great games, but never quite manages...
PlayLink is a nifty new feature for the PS4 that allows you to use your mobile devices or tablets as controllers in particular games. As a first taste of what PlayLink had to offer, That’s You! was free for a limited time showcasing all the swiping, dragging, tilting, rotating, drawing,...
When’s the last time fans have been genuinely satisfied with a Call of Duty game? When you really think about that question, it is a difficult one to answer. Sure, we all have our favorites but there’s no way 2016’s Infinite Warfare could be on many lists. Have you seen...
Simulacra
Such questions surround SIMULACRA: a tech thriller in the vein of Black Mirror that is told primarily through text messages. Upon finding the phone of a girl named Anna, you quickly learn that she’s in some sort of peril. The phone glitches out, showing a video of her terrified state,...
Ninja Shodown
I want to be great at Ninja Shodown. It’s not my usual genre, and I don’t tend to get into multiplayer party-style games, but something about Ninja Shodown drives me to want to, in the parlance of the Internet, “git gud.” However, even as I improve with practice, the game...
Yono and the Celestial Elephants underwhelms at first, with a simple, cutesy presentation that feels sparse. While lots of color abounds, objects such as bushes, fences, and rocks are very simplistic and their identical design often feels cut-and-paste. Sound effects are minimalistic and definitely don’t add much atmosphere to the...
