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007 First Light is a tour de force for IO Interactive, who surpass the Hitman series with a brilliant action adventure for the world famous spy.
Even though he’s typically the most serious member of the Justice League, Batman is, as we’ve seen over the years, pretty silly. Adam West climbing up buildings and thwacking and thwocking his way through bad guys? Silly. Val Kilmer in a batsuit with nipples? Silly. Ben Affleck having a shouting...
To say Mina the Hollower has been a highly anticipated title is an understatement. Yacht Club Games built their reputation with Shovel Knight, with players embracing the retro style and gameplay elements. Mina the Hollower is more of that classic 8-bit style, with gameplay to boot, and while it has...
Despite providing an iconic grimdark setting, one that ought to be perfect video game fodder, the Warhammer 40,000 license has often been something of a poisoned chalice for developers. It’s really only in the last decade, with the likes of Space Marine 2, the significantly patched Darktide and Rogue Trader arriving...
When you have a joke or meme character on your hands, you realistically only have two possible paths available to you. You can try to rehabilitate the image of said character, often to mixed results, or you can choose to lean into the ridiculous curve and mine the character for...
Every once in a while a game comes out that uses the medium to push the boundaries of interactivity and adds new facets to what it means to play it. Titles like Doki Doki Literature Club, Tunic, and Inscryption all take standard genres and mix them up with fourth-wall breaking...
Rune Dice might be a deck-building combat game, but that deck is full of dice instead of cards. Then there’s also the snooker-like precision with which you’ll need to throw said dice, oh, and your rolls are dealing damage in the fight your embroiled in at the time. It’s a lot...
To paraphrase Machiavelli (and that one guy in The Wire), when you come for the king, you’d best not miss. This is the problem inherent in Pokémon-likes — everything in the genre is measured against the 1997 classic. For good or ill, if your main monster isn’t at least as...
You’re cruising gently down a quiet secluded road in your electric camper, the trees reaching up to stroke the blue skies on your right. Beyond the white sandy beach to your left, the sun starts to dip below the horizon, making the ocean glisten. Things couldn’t be more serene. A...
Luna Abyss immediately declares what kind of game it’s going to be through the opening scene. Haunting music gets louder and louder while a camera pans slowly to show the curvature of the Earth. And then, in an instant, it’s not just the Earth. A blood-red moon appears above it,...
Yoshi games have always revelled in bringing new and distinctive art styles to the table, not to mention exploring different styles of platforming game, and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is no different. Taking place within the magical pages of Mister Encyclopaedia, there’s a lovely pencil art tone to the...
