Ori And The Blind Forest might be the most deceptive game ever created. Just look at it. Gorgeous, cartoon visuals. Lovably cuddly characters. Fairies. Trees. It’s a kids’ game, right? That’s what Moon Studios wants you to think,…
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You may know The Last Guardian as the game about a boy and his weird bird/lizard/cat thing. However, that wasn’t the original vision of director Fumito Ueda. With development of the long-awaited game shifting to PS4, gamers will …
The Odd Gentlemen creator of whimsical puzzle-platformer The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom is rebooting the beloved King’s Quest series under Activision’s newly resurrected Sierra label. If you’re not familiar, these were game…
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A nyone who played adventure games in the ‘80s and ‘90s probably has a list of favorite series and one-off titles from the era, like Quest for Glory or Day of the Tentacle. However, one franchise towered above the others in those…
You've seen very little of this game so far, but that doesn't mean there’s nothing to see. This, after all, is a title highly unsuitable for the traditional videogame PR blitz. You’ve not seen a combat trailer, because it…
This adventure title offers a very specific fix. One that anyone who spent lengthy periods of the late ’90s scanning pre rendered scenes and poking them for clues will be familiar with. It’s a defiantly old school PC point and cl…
After a spellbinding trailer at E3, Ori and the Blind Forest quickly became one of our most awaited releases of the year. With its soft glow and enchanting protagonist, we are reminded of Ubisoft’s watercolour wonder, Child of …
Rime’s protagonist has changed greatly since Tequila Works first came up with the game’s concept. A painting on a studio wall shows a now-familiar island scene with one major difference: where we expect a child to be stands a bu…
When he was eight years old, Raúl Rubio got trapped in a cave. He grew up around the mountains of northern Spain, and at the time was exploring a system of caverns near the town of Zugarramurdi, where witches supposedly once me…
Costume Quest was such an irresistible idea that, four years on, this follow-up is content to simply repeat it. And why not ? Halloween is a great time for fertile imaginations to run riot, and both the original and sequel skilfu…
Purses groan. Parents wail. A tide of cynicism sweeps the land. No, it’s not the release of Justin Bieber concert tickets it’s Skylanders: Trap Team. The skylanders games have always been fairly decent action adventure puzzle-pla…
Double-teaming foes with your car now Bat’s entertainment He can’t dance, his interpersonal skills are hugely lacking, and he has a terrible singing voice. But there are some things Batman does better than anybody, particularly u…
PopCap puts the fun into the squad-based shooter WHEN EA FIRST announced it was turning PopCap’s popular tower defence game into a third-person squad-based shooter, many assumed the publisher was making a joke, and a bad one at t…
There we were thinking that Michel Ancel was working on another Rayman game or fi nally getting round to properly knuckling down on Beyond Good & Evil 2, and then this happens. Wild is an open-world survival game set in a pse…
We’ve got to fight the powers that peel Ray is made of paper. His world is cardboard. Thoughts and objects are stickers. Ray has just been infested by an alien brain parasite that enables him to read minds, then peel and reapply …
New heroes of the toy world just fall short of super It was around the time that we were making the Spider-Man figurine cop off with Nova that we realised one important, slightly upsetting fact: these are the toys of the future. …
And reason, or so it seems With its upcoming indie slate, the head-swapping Puppeteer, and now Rime, no one could accuse Sony of playing it safe. This is an open-world adventure from Madrid-based Tequila Works full of Ico-esque t…
