Yesterday, in their first weekly update since late December, Bungie finally gave Destiny fans a glimpse at the future of the game – a future that’s wearing heart-patterned pants. This February Destiny will be joining all of the other MMOs that help gamers remember that it’s Valentines Day with their “Crimson Days” event. The event will…
I’ve just edited the title of this review. No, I didn’t put the wrong game in there; what I did do was delete the words “Early Access”. For several days now I’ve been under the impression that UnSummoning: the Spectral Horde was in Steam Early Access but, apparently, I was wrong… What UnSummoning: the Spectral…
I’ve driven a motorbike before. I’ve even done a wheelie. Okay, I didn’t mean to do it, and once I’d gotten the bike back under control, I pulled over and had to sit still for a minute for fear of having a heart attack, but I’ve done one. What I’ve never done, however, is ride…
Odin, Wodan, Wotan, Wotun, Allfather, Anthony Hopkins (pick any one of the hundreds of names he’s known by across the world) – the high god of the Norse pantheon and probably the best known god since the big one – is a dick. So begins Valhalla Hills. Apparently, Odin isn’t particularly happy that one of…
1,500 years ago if you wanted to play backgammon you’d actually be playing tabula and you’d need to get yourself a board, an opponent and a comfy spot somewhere in the Byzantine empire to settle down and enjoy a few rounds. 40-odd years ago you could play against a decent computer AI if you had a…
“Played one puzzle game, played them all.” This was my first thought when I booted up Tricone Lab by Partickhill Games Limited. That feeling lasted for about 20 minutes, until I was presented with one of the most well-authored puzzles I’ve played. Since then, I’ve been absolutely hooked on Tricone Lab – seriously, I think I need…
Dan Dez is a genius. In over 25 years of playing video games I don’t think I’ve ever played one that made me think more about myself than his latest game, OBEY, does. This is a one of a kind multiplayer game where no one can be trusted, everyone is a potential threat and you have…
In 2003 Relic Entertainment brought out Impossible Creatures, their follow-up to the critically acclaimed and generally well-loved Homeworld. A strange mixture of RTS and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Impossible Creatures not only put an army at the players’ fingertips, but it let them fiddle, genetically, with the units themselves – and now, with Impossible Creatures: Steam Edition, it’s time…
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void manages to pull something off that few games ever have: it marks the culmination of one of the most engaging, thrilling and incredibly rewarding stories in RTS history – and is the best thing to happen to multiplayer gaming since its predecessor, StarCraft: Broodwar, kicked off eSports almost two decades ago….
It seems that a lot of people like Albert & Otto. It’s got good ratings on Steam, and there was a lot of excitement about the game when it debuted at PAX earlier this year. It’s an exciting and incredibly challenging 2D puzzle-platformer about a boy, Albert, trying to find a a kidnapped girl (presumably his sister) with the…
Going into this review I had no idea what kind of game Paint the Town Red was. But now, after stabbing a guy to death with an afro comb, I think I know: this could be the kind of game Jack Thompson has been starting lawsuits over for 13 years. The idea behind the game is…
Snail Bob 2 is the follow-up to, you guessed it, Snail Bob. Developed by Hunter Hamster and published by tinyBuild, Snail Bob 2 is a puzzler in the same mould as many, many other puzzle games available on your smartphone or Flash-game website of choice. But Snail Bob 2 does plenty to help it stand out…
Roguelikes have been around for decades. We’ve all played one at one point or another (sometimes without realising it –Â Diablo, anyone? Or, better yet, ToeJam and Earl?) and, while the prospect of permanent character death and randomised encounters in a AAA game seems terrifying, it’s all par for the course for a roguelike – or…
Train Valley is a rather fun “rail management simulator” for PC, spanning over 200 years of train technology and 24 levels of lovely, hair-pulling frustration. It’s one of those games that you’ll either love or hate: you’ll keep on coming back to it, time after time, to see if you can better yourself; or you’ll break your…
One of the biggest deals players are making about the huge Destiny 2.0 update (and the subsequent year 2 expansion, The Taken King, out now) is that – after a full year of questing, raiding, strikes and duking it out in the Crucible – the players are finally getting a story. But why do games need…
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