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The wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong has been an excruciating one. Since the 2017 Metroidvania masterpiece Hollow Knight, the community had been clamouring for more. And in 2019, Silksong was finally announced, but nobody expected the long wait. Years of teasing with gameplays followed by extended lengths of silence, it...
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The use of generative AI in the gaming industry has increased dramatically over the past year, with major AAA games like Call of Duty and Fortnite experimenting with it to see how far they can push the boundaries. Unfortunately, they cross the line from human creativity into soulless art in...
To believe that two of the biggest “that will never see the light of day” games of all time, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Metroid Prime 4, are now out. To believe that, despite all odds, despite multiple delays, immense periods of radio silence, and people just getting fed up of...
There are games that you know, right from the getgo, the moment they get announced, that they will be hits. All you need to see is a few seconds of footage, learn the premise, and take a look at the team developing said title. Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a perfect...
Hyper Light Drifter was one of my favourite indie games when it was released back in 2016. A callback to the classic Zelda titles with just a hint of soulslike to keep things spicy, mixed in with a phenomenal pixel art direction. Unfortunately, the 3D Action Roguelike follow-up Hyper Light...
I’m always up for a new racing game with real-life cars and tracks, especially when it’s not something overly niche like motorcycles or trucks. Project Motor Racing comes from the studio known as Straight4, a phoenix studio of sorts, comprised of former members from Slightly Mad Studios, the makers of...
D3 Publisher is known for making games that aren’t particularly polished or developed with the highest of budgets, but they’re almost always somewhat charming due to their simplistic gameplay loops and irreverent B-tier charm. They are the IP holders of both Onee Chanbara and Earth Defense Force, after all, so...
The Tomb Raider reboot, released in 2013, was a game I had known a lot about ever since its launch, but had never had the chance of playing. Don’t ask me why: I did play its sequels, found them to be painfully okay, and never bothered thinking about them ever...
The vast majority of SpongeBob Squarepants 3D platformers are actually much better than they have any right to be, but 2023’s The Cosmic Shake was one hell of a surprise to all of us. THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp went out of their way to deliver a perfect combination of...
What happens when you get ex-Telltale games and Ubisoft developers and give them complete freedom to create something entirely new? You get Dispatch, a superhero workplace comedy in the same style as Telltale games. In a year of huge surprises, like Expedition 33 and Arc Raiders, it might actually be...
