The original Aeternoblade was a game I always had my eye on, but never quite had the desire to pick up for myself. At the risk of sounding like a bit of a snob, I tend to focus my purchases on things…
Steam recently just announced their plans for the “Remote Play Together” feature. This feature will let you play usual couch co-op games with friends in the comfort of your home despite being miles away from them. The feature was first revealed by…
The Earth Defense Force series is a mad one. The world is invaded by an alien race, and by using their weaponry, they have just made every one of our insects horrifyingly huge. As a premise, it sounds like the most stereotypical Japanese…
I hate children. Well, now that we’ve established that my career as a teacher is well and truly over after that Frostpunk review; let’s not hold back. I hate children (ages 0-18 and beyond): they are loud, annoying, and pretend they have…
IO Interactive, developers of the Hitman series and the Hitman series, the former of which includes Codename 47, Silent Assassin, and Blood Money while, the latter includes Hitman and Hitman 2. It is fair to say, IO Interactive have made some genuinely awful piles of tosh, and one of the best…
City builders, I’ll never get away from the damn things. In the past few weeks, I’ve reviewed Tropico 6, which is more about pleasing outside forces than your people; and Frostpunk which is about forcing children in jobs they might die in. Both…
I am a villain. No, really; the first thing I did when I was given the option to enact a new law in the frozen tundra of my new city was child labor. Tropico 6, you might have all that humor business…
To say that video games exist outside the realm of politics is naive. The process in which a game is made is political, depending on how the developers are treated, if they’re allowed to unionize, etc. How a game is treated by…
For a while, the Mario Party franchise was considered to be in a rut. Mario Party 9 changed the franchise’s formula of characters running all over the board for stars, to everyone moving in the same car set down a nearly linear…
With the PC port of Red Dead Redemption 2 being announced late last week, Rockstar was a little hesitant to give too many details; including the performance requirements of this highly detailed behemoth. Given it is already a stunning game in parts on…