Review by Harvard L. The Turing Test is the latest game to join the ranks of first-person science-fiction philosophical puzzle games in the vein of Q.U.B.E, The Talos Principle and Portal. Developed originally or PC and released in 2016, developers Bulkhead Interactive has now ported the game to PlayStation 4.…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Phew! After over a year, The Odd Gentlemen has finally released the last of the King’s Quest chapters. With a few months in between chapters, it has been a long wait at times, but you can see that each chapter has also been worked on hard…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. Wow, The Little Acre is gorgeous. That’s the first thought that popped into my head when I saw the debut trailer for the game back in August, and it remained was one of the prevailing thoughts I had while giving the game an early playthrough. Coming…
Read MoreReview by Britta S. “I fart therefore I am.” Thus speaks our hero – or rather anti-hero – Bjorn Thonen, a Parisian antiques dealer whose shop is stocked with what can only be described as secondhand cast-offs of dubious value. He is the archetypal thirty-something man-child: a slob with questionable…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Last week we got to enjoy Final Fantasy XV; a game that we had been waiting a full ten years for. This week we have Sony’s own The Last Guardian. Another game that we have been waiting for for years (to the point where many thought…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Being able to live forever is going to be high up on just about everyone’s “three wishes” list if they ever come across a genie’s lamp in their lifetime. Imagine if that wish had come true, but in order to live forever, it means coming back…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Steins;Gate is one of the best visual novels that you’ll ever play. Indeed, it’s a big part of the reason that more and more visual novels are coming out west – PQube hit some real success in localising the original and now other niche publishers want…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I have been fortunate enough to sit down with The Last Guardian for an hour or so, in order to test out a couple of different demos that show the game at various points. I came away with the overwhelming impression that this game is going…
Read MoreArticle by Harvard L. If the golden rule of writing is “show, don’t tell”, then the equivalent for game development is surely “feel, don’t show”. The greatest strength of video game storytelling is the ability to make the player an agent: for the actions they take to affect the overarching…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Those themes of uncanniness which are most prominent, … are all concerned with the phenomenon of the ‘double’, which appears in every shape and in every degree of development …the ‘double’ has become a thing of terror.” (Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, 1919) Related reading: Here They…
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