You can be forgiven for not knowing of Oasis Games, developers and publishers of predominantly browser and mobile games (many of which are not accessible in the West at this time). But this ambitious Chinese company are making the most of the post-console ban era by publishing a variety of PlayStation VR titles. I was…
Based in GameSpew’s home town of Sheffield, we’ve always had a fondness for Sumo Digital. Unfortunately, not many other people seem to have heard of them, despite their involvement in many big-name releases. Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing, the Xbox 360 version Forza Horizon 2, LittleBigPlanet – and the upcoming Dead Island 2, just…
Forget for a moment that this world of ours is a boring one, where you’re born, grow older and eventually have children and if or when you do, you must responsibly care for and protect them until they potentially become Dads themselves. Now let’s enter the world of Dad Quest, where once your child is born,…
Of the many, many, big and burgeoning titles on show at this year’s EGX, one of the most hotly anticipated must surely be Horizon: Zero Dawn. It’s got everything going for it: A massive developer, it’s a console (PS4) exclusive so it’s got SONY publishing it and to top that off, there’s loads of post-E3…
When it was first announced back at E3 in 2015, For Honor immediately seemed to tick a lot of boxes for a lot of people – myself included. Essentially billed as a hack and slash multiplayer game, Ubisoft’s new IP promised slick but hefty melee brawling and tactical one-on-one duels between knights, vikings and samurai amongst the crumbling ruins…
Anyone with a passing interest in Battlefield – past or present (that may or may not have dwindled with Battlefield Hardline) – will want to check out Battlefield 1’s Open Beta. Taking modern warfare back to the World War I setting may have had its fair share of doubts and controversy, but this is the most…
Back in 2012 Toylogic, a Japanese studio, released their first full title: Happy Wars. Happy Wars was the first full free-to-play game on Xbox 360.
Ten minutes into The Turing Test and I knew exactly what was going on: I knew what the twists would be; knew where it was headed. I knew all I needed to know, and I was ready to write it off as a semi-transparent Portal clone. An hour in, I began to have serious doubts about my…
Just released on Steam today, We Happy Few has entered its Early Access stage and is available for a modest price of £22.99. For those of you that didn’t catch our E3 coverage articles, We Happy Few is what would be the result of George Orwell designing a Bioshock game. Set in 1960’s England (with…
Zombie apocalypse games could probably be their own genre at this point. There’s something totally addicting about trying to survive in a world overrun by the walking dead. The Final Station, developed by Do My Best games, uses the backdrop of a dying world for it’s 2D pixel art adventure game and what it has…
Some games try to gain your affection with interesting stories or innovative mechanics. Others just want to show you a good time. If Book of Demons is one of them, it most certainly is the latter. The first part of developer Thing Trunk’s Back 2 Games project, Book of Demons aims at revisiting classic dungeon…
After discovering Project Discord, an upcoming indie Survival Horror title, while researching a piece on the future of the classic genre, I did a shout-out for them. Since, the 3D-Brothers team reached out to me and asked if I wouldn’t mind taking a look at a very early build of the game. They described this build as “pre-alpha”,…
The shmup genre is a place that has been stretched long and thin by the passage of time, seemingly exhausted from repetition and routine to the point of becoming one of the most explored and well-worn parts of the medium. Somehow, the small Argentinian developer OPQAM have broken through the brusque, old mold of the…
After writing a feature on whether the upcoming CCG Fable Fortune could save the Fable series, I was contacted by Craig Oman of Flaming Fowl Studios and asked whether I wanted to play the alpha build of the game and find out a little more about it. I was surprised and humbled by the kind…
Compulsion Games came onto the stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference to show of We Happy Few along with a date for its arrival on Xbox Game Preview. I’ve been interested in We Happy Few for awhile and at Microsoft’s E3 press conference Compulsion Games, known for Contrast, revealed it will come to Xbox Game Preview…
Early Access game Seraph may seem like a run-of-the-mill platform game, but actually it offers much more fun than your typical side-scroller. Why? Two words: Gun Fu. Seraph currently sits in Steam’s Early Access, and not only is it more polished than a lot of the Early Access games on there, it’s currently one of the best. It’s…
On 6 May 2016, Emily and Ed were fortunate enough to be invited to attend The SideKicks‘ and Plug in Digital’s Spring Showcase. During the event, the pair got hands on with 10 upcoming games over a wide variety of genres – and had an absolute blast while doing so. We’ve handily summarised each of the 10…
I was intrigued by Overwatch as soon as Blizzard announced it as their first new IP for 17 years at Blizzcon 2014. It’s a 6v6 hero-based shooter – something you’ve probably heard a lot recently – with enough variety in its heroes to keep it interesting. It’s also a *expletive* ton of fun. It’s a joy…
Sometimes, familiarity is a good thing. When you come to know and rely on something, it becomes a fond source of warmth. “Ol’ trusty,” you’ll call it. In a lot of ways, Nippon Ichi Software fills that gap. They are mostly known for their neat strategy/tactical RPG games, more recently, the excellent, weird, strange but…
I’d known about Atlas Reactor from its appearance on Twitch during the game’s closed alpha. Developed by Trion Worlds, who are known more for their MMORPGs, Atlas Reactor is a 4v4 turn-based strategy game with 16 playable characters – known as Freelancers. I spent some time in the closed beta to try the game out, and even though its…
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