Review by Matt S. Let’s make this clear from the outset; as a game, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 isn’t too bad. As with its predecessor the focus is very much on a fast, fluid combat system, and while it’s a little generic at times (especially the boss battles, which…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. When the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were launched, my interest in the consoles was not the additional power that they would bring. Highly detailed visuals are nice, but we’re at a stage in the development of the games industry where aesthetics are, finally, more important…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. I have played a lot of weird games over the years; after all I like JRPGs and games don’t get weirder than those. And yet despite all that experience this is the first time that I find myself wondering: “Is this game weird… Or not?” Zombeer…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. We’ve got another big developer announcement to make for The Interactive Canvas (you can back it on Kickstarter here). A couple of the artists from popular independent Polish developer, Techland, will be participating in the book for an interview on the topic of “illustrating horror.” Techland…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. UPDATE: Tecmo Koei has confirmed to me that yes, this game will be released in Australia too. Celebrate the crimson shower! On the 28th of March I become a brutal, evil, trapmaster. For that is the date that Tecmo Koei releases Deception IV for PlayStation 3…
Read MoreReview by Andrew M. The Walking Dead is a monumental staple of modern culture. The effects have seemed to reverberate throughout almost every medium with zombie stories being even more common now than they were before. While I don’t know if Overlive – Zombie Survival RPG was directly influenced by…
Read MoreReview by Shaan J. On paper, Deadly Premonition might seem like an awful game, and a majority of gamers and critics would have agreed with that sentiment back in 2010, when the game launched on the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, that’s the inherent issue with arthouse games; while there are certainly…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. At 352 pages, the Deadly Premonition Visual Companion is an essential purchase for anyone who is a fan of Swery’s polarising horror game. For the $10 or so that it costs, you’ll quickly understand just why this needed to be a digital book on iTunes than…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Melancholia can make for an oddly beautiful theme when done right. We’ve seen it work for poets such as T.S Eliot (“By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown” – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is…
Read MoreThe Last Door is a unique game. Not because of its typical horror story setup of a nondescript man being summoned to his eccentric friend’s dark, desolate mansion. Not because of its rudimentary point-and-click puzzles that, like those of many adventure games, tend to frustrate. The Last Door is a…
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