Video by Matt S. Kalypso has just released Railway Empire, a new simulator that puts you in control of building up a rail network. And it’s so, so good. I’ve got a review for the game coming later today, but in the meantime I’ve put together a video looking at…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. One of the most fascinating stories through the Sengoku period of Japanese history (which forms the basis of Samurai Warriors) is Kaihime, one of the few women through the era to pick up a sword and command soldiers on the battlefield. She was excellent at it,…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. A game that I really enjoy, but haven’t written about much in the past, is Ziggurat. I picked it up about a year or so ago on a whim, and found myself really enjoying the way that it combined Heretic or Hexen-like dark fantasy FPS action…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Lost Sphear is the first major JRPG of the year, and is the follow up project for the team that did the remarkable I Am Setsuna. I’ll have a full written review up on the site later in the week. For now, though, here’s a video…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. The Red Strings Club is a new narrative-driven adventure game, with an old-school aesthetic and lots of cyberpunk influences. The difference is that where most games use cyberpunk as a pathway to yet more action, The Red Strings Club does things very, very differently. In this…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. One of the things that I love about the Samurai Warriors games is the way that they depict history. Often they’re dismissed as not being “realistic” to history, and that’s certainly the case, but as I’ve argued in the past, they are authentic to history. Related…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I love Zen Studios and its approach to pinball. I loved Zen Pinball 2 with a passion, and I love Pinball FX 3 even more, if that’s possible. Related reading: Matt’s review of Pinball FX 3. What’s especially impressive is that the developer has been so…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s a natural synergy between the city builder, and space colonisation. The entire appeal of a city builder is taking a wide, empty space of land and then building it up by adding buildings and people so that it that nothingness can become a thriving metropolis.…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. PQube will launch French Bread’s latest 2D fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], in early February for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 (no, really), and PlayStation Vita. We’ve got a solid month before we can run a review of the game, but we figured we’d give people a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We’re nine days into 2018, but I am already completely comfortable in calling this: Briks 2 is the worst game of the year. There’s nothing about this Breakout clone it that isn’t broken at a fundamental level, and to add insult to injury this game is…
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