Indie games are out there for many reasons and for many people: a big creator’s personal project, the first step of a new studio or just an experiment with new stories and/or gameplay mechanics. This time we got Severed from DrinkBox Studios, the creators of Guacamelee and Mutant Blobs Attack!!!, relatively simple in mechanics but with colorful gra...
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‘Inside’ is a spiritual successor to Playdead’s hugely successful ‘Limbo’; a game which I loved. Before I sat down to play “Inside”, I worried whether or not it could match the quality of its predecessor – within the first five minutes of gameplay I had been in awe, terror, shock and relief. The game commands your attention, and it neve...
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How do you sell a cooking game to someone to try out? By telling them it’s one of the most chaotic, laugh-a-minute, noisiest multi-player games around. Ghost Town Games “Overcooked” features up to four chefs, all “working together” to fulfil a list of orders before the time runs out. So, why the double speech marks? Well, because if you...
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Was your beach body ready when Senran Kagura Estival Versus came out? Because even if summer’s over, there’s still much to come from Life and Hometown Man Kenichiro Takaki and SK’s little sister project Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni. In the world of Valkyrie Drive, an illness broke out in girls in their teens and twenties, giving them great mental and...
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Devin Faraci, Editor-in-Chief of blog movie review site Birth.Movies.Death has resigned from his position after allegations of sexual assault were made against him. The non-apology I want to be perfectly clear about one thing; I firmly believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty. In saying that, Faraci first reacted to the allegations by...
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Years ago, there was a game on the Apple //e called Choplifter. As expected on such an early game, it was a simple game with simple graphics, and a simple premise. The premise for Dustoff Heli Rescue is the same one: You are flying a helicopter seeking to rescue hostages in a war zone. While the Choplifter had a somewhat...
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What do you get if you take the best bits from some of your favourite games and mash them together? The best game ever, right? That’s the theory, sure. Having been offered the chance to review Thea: The Awakening, it looked to have the turn-based elements of Civilization, the resource management of Settlers, RPG elements from Elder Scrolls with som...
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I’ve been surprised by games before. I’ve found some games to be an incredible disappointment after hoping so hard for something good. There have been some that I was surprised at how pleasant they were despite bad reviews. Nevertheless, nothing quite prepared me for the shock that I got from Typoman Revised. An updated version of the W...
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