Preview by Matt C. For anyone with fond childhood memories of playing with wooden train sets, Tracks: The Train Set Game offers a wonderful trip down memory lane. In the simplest terms, it’s a game about building railway tracks with those familiar wooden pieces, over and under and through whatever…
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Article by Matt S. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market. So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The Escapists 2 depicts a utilitarian paradise. Developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and published by Team17, it’s a prison escape simulation where everything has a purpose, and in most cases that purpose is escaping prison. It’s possible to break out of every high security locales by…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the few genres that I can get so utterly addicted to that I actually lose track of time, and don’t realise I’m getting tired until I look at the clock and it’s saying 5:00am, is the city builder. I had a powerful addiction to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The classical city building simulator is an approach to game design that I’m quite convinced will never die. Decades down the track there will still be developers making games that are, simply, about building a balance of different types of buildings and structures that can handle…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Late last year, UIG Entertainment released a port of Industry Giant 2 on PlayStation 4. Despite being an older game (and quite primitive looking), I really love that game. At the time when I reviewed it was plagued by a critical bug that would cause save…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. The word “oasis” carries such passionate connotations that its definition extends beyond the literal term for a fertile water source within a desert. This secondary meaning pertains to the abstract idea of a haven; a place of refuge from an oppressive force. Native English speakers often…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. One of the lesser-known things about me is that I love city builders almost as much as I love JRPGs. I don’t get to talk about the games as much, as I generally play games on console these days, and it’s rare for city builders to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the publishers that you’re not going to hear too much about is Kalypso. It’s largely a simulator specialist, and doesn’t get a whole lot of media coverage; not when there are games featuring evisceration for the media to talk about instead. Railway Empire But…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. If you want to make me mad, tell me that global warming is a myth. Nothing stirs anger in me quite like someone arguing that scientific fact, proven time and time again, is actually a lie. Next time somebody starts that fight, I’m going to direct…
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