Don’t question the maths of that strap line, just go with it. Shay and Vella live in entirely separate universes, conjoined only by a recurring theme of over-protection and a call to adventure that leads them to question everythi…
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Plenty of damage can be done in just 30 characters, from ill-judged tweets to drunken texts to your mother. but factor in time travel and those messages become the flutter of digital wings at the heart of a world-rebuilding butte…
The term ‘METROIDVANIA’ is chucked around a fair bit in the discussion of modern indie games, and with good reason many pay tribute to both the Nintendo and Konami classics, after all. In this instance, though, you can pretty muc…
There are a great many instances in which having a disembodied voice narrating your every move would be profoundly irritating: public speaking, late-night toilet trips, assembling furniture… But as Bastion demonstrates with whisk…
Were there a sports-style rankings system for #firstworldproblems, The Show developer Sony San Diego’s current plight would surely perch close to its summit. So great has its baseball series become over the last decade, so close …
MonsterBag is part of the growing number of indie games that shows that the gaming community at large enjoys the creativity of smaller design studios, in addition to appreciating the big name blockbusters. The fact is that the ve…
Jake Kazdal didn’t always know what he wanted to do with life. Having worked as a game counsellor on a Nintendo hotline in his teens, he left college with a little experience of the industry, and so began to petition a contact he…
Just as her first act did, the second part of Vella’s Broken Age story opens with a knife. But rather than searching for cutlery with which to slice a cake, she instead narrowly avoids being shivved by a talking blade from Shay’…
That is one big pile of shi… uh, cutesy Danish blocks.” Thankfully for both little Lego Jeff Goldblum and JP fans worldwide, TT Games’ take on Spielberg’s dinosaur blockbusters isn’t a load of old dung. In fact, it looks to be ev…
This place changes a person. There’s no doubting it. You may enter your family’s estate as relatively sane, but before a single quest is finished, your band of explorers will be bickering, at best. More likely, darkness, hunger a…
At what point does a videogame, so unabashedly influenced and clearly defined by what’s come before it, cease to be a homage and simply become a derivative work? That’s the line Axiom Verge cautiously treads and occasionally teet…
Can we still call visual novels niche? Virtue’s Last Reward and Danganronpa, both similarly arriving in Europe on Sony’s PS Vita, would suggest not, consistently sitting at the top of the PSN download best seller lists. This, how…
With Nintendo currently holding a firm grip on the Monster Hunter series, those without a Nintendo console must surely feel left out, especially with the lack of beast-laden titles on the other current-gen boxes. Toukiden: Kiwami…
A. ALIEN: ISOLATION – PS4 Despite having no experience in the horror field, The Creative Assembly (best known for its real-time strategy Total War games) somehow managed to make the most authentic Alien experience in years. The l…
You’ve just won all the plaudits for your 2D lucha libre-inspired action adventure on PS3 and its current-gen Super Turbo Championship Edition follow-up, so what do you do next? If your name’s Drinkbox Studios, you make a PS Vita…
For readers of a certain age, combing over the screenshots on these pages will be like glimpsing fleeting moments of their childhood, suspended in amber. Look, there's the classic T-rex chase scene from the original Jurassic …
Hotline Miami was an action game disguised as an art game disguised as an action game. It was about mood as much as hair-trigger score chasing, and it made the two work together in a way that few games manage. For the adept, able…
From its onset, Alone with You paints a picture of doom and gloom. You are the only remaining human left on a planet. Your only connection to another is the colony’s A.I., which alerts you that the planet has 21 days left before …
Stealth games are a rare breed these days. Games like The Last of Us and The Order: 1886 might feature sneaking sequences, but rarely do they revolve entirely around the gameplay mechanic. Mike Bithell, developer of Thomas Was Al…
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover sage advice. But they also say some pretty discouraging things when you spend seven straight hours on a waterstones sofa really getting to know that book, having slipped off your s…
