If looks were everything, Cosmic Leap would be getting a stratospheric review score, and Donald Trump wouldn’t be president. Unfortunately, despite Cosmic Leap‘s endearing voxel graphics and cutesy pop-culture references, this simple little platformer won’t be blasting off much further than the digital bargain bin. In Cosmic Leap, the player controls a little cubular man in…
In Human: Fall Flat, Bob has a lot of problems. Not only is he stuck in his own dreams that unexpectedly adhere to the laws of physics and where his only escape is to fall endlessly, but he also has the structural integrity of a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man. Poor guy. Dad-bod notwithstanding, are these the…
The timer counts down. I look around me at the steely, expressionless faces of my opponents. Everybody seems to have gotten their clothes from the same discount winter collection. A man with a face eerily similar to my own is wearing a purple version of my pink boiler suit. How embarrassing. Two seconds until go…
It was not so long ago that games went “pew-pew” or “wacca-wacca”, and books went… er, “rustle-rustle”…? Now we have an inspired fusion of the two in the form of visual novels, where prose is paired with images, but it isn’t technically a comic book. Confusing? Maybe. Niche? Probably. But some people just can’t get enough of…
I’m all for sacrificing to eldritch gods. Always have been, always will be. But sacrifices can be boring: there’s only so many times I can endure the virgin on the ceremonial altar, it’s just so overdone. Thankfully, Galvanic Games have given us a new way to invoke the lords of darkness! Cue Gurgamoth, a fast-paced couch-multiplayer flying-fighting game where your aim…
When I used to go to school I was one of those kids that spent a lot of time on the library computers during my lunch break. One of the few websites that wasn’t blocked was a site called Miniclip. It was your classic smorgasbord of browser based flash games where only one in 10…
Switch Galaxy Ultra, now there’s a name. I tend to avoid anything with the suffix “Ultra”, on the grounds that it probably won’t be. It probably won’t even be “Mega”, or “Uber”, or even “Ace”. Normally it’s “Crap”. Thankfully this time around Atomicom’s Switch Galaxy Ultra lives up to the name. This is a fast-paced, space-surfing, sci-fi time…
At this year’s Insomnia Gaming Festival I was lucky enough to have the chance to play a short demo of 2K’s new sci-fi MOBA/FPSÂ Battleborn, or should I say lucky enough to have the chance to gamble away precious LAN time on a game that I had no idea existed until then. Let’s just say that…
Today Square Enix announced that they would be shutting down their “Augment Your Pre-Order” program for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The program, designed to allow buyers a greater freedom of choice with their pre-order packages, was met with overwhelming negative feedback concerning its convoluted nature and “tiered” system. It is this community feedback that allegedly…
SAG-AFTRA is calling for strike action from members involved in video game voice acting. The vote comes after the failure to negotiate a new Interactive Media Agreement after its old iteration ended in 2014. This agreement mostly concerns issues such as residual payments and working conditions. SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation…
Imagine you’re in an incredibly low budget ’80s movie. Scratch that. Imagine you’re in any ’80s movie. Now imagine that you’re a hacker, and it gets to that intense scene where you’ve got to hack the entirety of the USSR or something equally absurd, but nobody on the production team really understands what hacking is. Networm puts you…
For most people in the UK, the last weekend of August was a normal bank holiday, a time designed to make people feel better about themselves by allowing them to binge watch Jeremy Kyle all day. However, for some people, the last weekend of August was a call to arms. The beacons were lit at the…
Much like the beleaguered people of KPA-occupied America, the development of Homefront: The Revolution has gone through hell. Beginning four years ago in the hands of THQ (requiescat in pace), the game has gone through a series of directions and studios, finally arriving in the bosom of Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, who are currently preparing to…
At the video game United Nations summit, a new ambassador has walked onto the platform. His name is Dungeon League, and he’s here to bring together the “dungeon crawlers” and the “party gamers”. No-one asked him to, but apparently he’s got a BTEC in International Relations and it’s too late to ask him to stop. Suffice to say, Dungeon…
Some genres just never die. That’s not to say some shouldn’t – a wizened sage once prophesied the demise of the dating sim, but unfortunately this has yet come to pass. Nevertheless, the side scrolling “shoot’em up”, also known as the “shmup”, has been steadfastly plugging along. With the help of Kickstarter,  independent Brazilian developers Cyber…
So, you don’t like sports? Wrong. You just haven’t found the right sport for you, and the right sport for you is Rocket League. Developed by Psyonix, creators of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, this is the souped-up car football game you didn’t even know you were waiting for. The story unfolds thusly. You are Chad “The Rocket”…
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