Does anyone remember The Last Guardian? In that game you’re put in charge of an AI companion that you have to wrangle into doing stuff so you can solve puzzles…
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Early 2000s, 1980s cars, music festivals. If I didn’t know better I would’ve guessed the developers of Keep Driving had rifled through my Facebook post history and decided to make…
It seems I’m something of a sucker for a good indie dev story. So when I came across this post on /r/IndieGaming I figured why not give it a shot;…
Sometimes I get ahead of myself, wanting to preserve as much of the going-in-blind experience so I don’t build up expectations about the experience. Most of the time it works,…
Everyone has that game which defined, for them, the core of many games that came after it. DOOM for FPS, Warcraft for RTS and for this old reviewer anything that…
Some things just tickle your dopamine receptors just right. In the past I’ve avoided bullet hell games, almost certainly because I’ve been absolutely terrible at them. But that changed back…
Of the many great lines that came out of the American version of the Office was the one from Andy Bernard: “I wish there was a way to know you’re…
Cast your mind back to high school English classes, the ones where they decided try to introduce Shakespeare to a severely disinterested bunch of teenagers (I count myself among them…
It’ll be different this time, you tell yourself. You’ve been down this road before, you know the mistakes to avoid so when you do the thing it won’t end up…
Most retro-revival shooters I’ve played over the years have, in my opinion, been pretty terrible. Certainly there’s worth in exploring the roots of a genre but the unfortunate reality is…