Everyone has painful memories that they wish they could forget. Life isn’t always pretty and we all have our ups just as we have our downs. Making it through these events is entirely up to us. Some of us ask for help. Others try to make it through on our…
Read More1995’s Comix Zone on the Sega Genesis (or Megadrive) was a visually appealing and unique affair. Its bright colours, well-animated sprites and other refined miscellanea contributed to the aesthetics and feel of the artstyle it was emulating: comic books. With the action set within the pages of a typical comic…
Read MoreMighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition will test your reflexes, and sometimes your patience, but the action is so rewarding that you will come back for more. Primarily a platforming game with some really solid puzzle elements, leading lady, Patricia Wagon, reminds us of Mega Man as she attempts to…
Read MoreUbisoft’s beloved Rayman is back, but it may not be on the platform you were expecting! Check out the trailer for Rayman Adventures below. That’s right: Rayman’s next adventure is a mobile one. This may disappoint some, but remember that the previous Rayman games on mobile have actually been of…
Read MoreWhispering Willows is one of the most creative games I’ve played in years. The reason I believe this is because during my playtime, I have been reminded of Resident Evil, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Telltale Adventure games, Lone Survivor, and Maniac Mansion, and somehow it all fits into this wonderful…
Read MoreThere are some games that are simply brilliant in their presentation, and get away with a weaker premise on that basis. Other games present amazing ideas but fall a bit short in the implementation. Aero’s Quest is the latter. It has a great concept but the implementation felt somewhat off.…
Read MoreAfter doing some research up on RONIN and finding out that it’s a “turn-based platformer”, I initially thought Steam had made some error. Such a genre combination couldn’t possibly exist. And yet, in this stylised stealth title by Tomasz Waclawek and published by Devolver Digital, the spheres of turn based…
Read MoreOne of the many books I probably shouldn’t have read as a youngster, but did anyway, was One Thousand And One Nights. I was a big fan of Disney’s Aladdin, and when I head that Aladdin came from this book (along with a bunch of other stories), I went and…
Read MoreYoshi and his mates are evil… pure evil. They can no longer trick us under that cute facade they have been hiding behind all these years. Yoshi and his mates are evil, so is Kamek, and the war between evil and evil has resulted in far too many Shy Guy…
Read MorePixels were the original fundamental building blocks of games until crazy things like voxels and polygons came around. But why use pixels now? Is it to tap into people’s nostalgia for a simpler period of gaming? Or by this point is it an artistic choice? The Adventures of Pip certainly…
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