Review 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 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 MorePreview by Harvard L. Tucked away in the PAX Rising international section at PAX Australia 2016 was a peculiar game: a black and white representation of a 19th century sailing ship with barely any promotional material at the booth all. Indeed, the actually screen was obscured, and you basically had…
Read MoreReview by Mikhail M. This generation we’ve seen a ton of indie games release on consoles. The increasingly open platforms have allowed developers to expand their own horizons and also allowed those that only play on consoles to experience some of the finest independently developed games out there. PlayStation has…
Read MoreReview by Matthew C. If you go into Virginia expecting a crime drama, you’re going to be disappointed. Yes, it’s centred on a pair of of FBI agents looking into the strange disappearance of a young child, but that’s really just a frame for the far more interesting story at…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. To everyone out there, have you played Dear Esther? I would assume most of you have – the prolific surrealist piece developed by The Chinese Room is still a free download on PC’s and almost necessitates a name drop in every “Games as Art” conversation. Perhaps…
Read MoreReview by Mikhail M. Hue by Fiddlesticks surprised me in every way, which is good, because on paper it doesn’t sound like too much; it’s a puzzle platformer that relies on colours. That simple concept belies one intensely well-crafted game, however, in which everything from the title screen music to…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. There’s a lot of value to be found in games that abandon a typical approach to storytelling in favour of something more abstract and esoteric, and this is something there’s been a welcome surge of in recent times. At the same time, the linear, overt narrative…
Read MoreGame Theory by Matt S. You’ve probably never played Diamond Trust of London. In fact, if you’ve even heard of it, you’re doing well for yourself. Developed by Jason Rohrer, it is a Nintendo DS exclusive board game that had almost no media attention and just scraped through on its…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It would be easy to dismiss Bound as being yet another artsy game developed by hipsters that doesn’t play as “cool” as the latest shootybang. I’m sure a lot of people will do just that to it. As usual with artsy hipster games, those critics are…
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