Drop me on most uninhabited islands and my total lack of survival skills will render me dead inside three days. I don’t know how to start a fire or build a competent shelter. I can’t hunt. I’m clueless about the differences betwe…
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Tetris is arguably the best puzzle game yet made: its premise is simplicity itself, its endless nature and lack of win state as compulsive as gaming gets. Puyo Puyo is better known in Japan than the west, but its rules are equall…
At Gamescom 2014, Doom co-creator John Romero announced that he’s working on a new first person shooter project, and also took the chance to voice his frustrations at the lack of innovation in gaming’s most overexposed genre. Ac…
As great as the last 11 months of Xbox One have been,it’s felt like we’ve been without a true indie hit. The digital game that masks the transition between night and day, the game that creates the insatiable urge to ignore the tr…
The fi rst game a lot of us played on PS4 is still one of the best, with few shooters out there as endlessly playable and immediately fun as Housemarque’s modern classic, Resogun. But if you need some reasons to go back to it, th…
Mixing genres can be a tricky thing, but the way the developers of Velocity 2X did it is almost pitch-perfect. Here is a game that effortlessly combines vertical scrolling space shoot-em-ups with action side scrolling platform ad…
proof thAt you cAn take the most boring thing in the world and create a great game around it. If you were to put a bunch of game developers in a room and tell them to come up with the most boring concept to base a game around, ch…
Have you ever played on a real pinball table? Yeah, didn't think so. You may have seen them in Eighties movies, or played the built-in table on Windows XP, but nowadays real tables aren’t so common, except perhaps in trendy d…
