Indie dev Antonio Freyre is at it again making stealth games, and has released the delightful No Sun to Worship, to the world. In this little stealth indie things have very clearly gone bad for humankind, and you’re a person charged with making it worse for whoever’s employing you one sabotage, murder, and assassination at…
Armored Core 6’s late game Ice Worm boss is a big guy, absolutely dwarfing the player in a way not dissimilar to old FromSoft bosses like Sekrio’s Great Worm or Dark Souls’ sad sack lava guy punching bag, Ceaseless Discharge. As prolific FromSoft dataminer Zullie the Witch demonstrates though, the Ice Worm puts all those…
“A celestial flower blooms, as a vicious wasp protects. Complete their entwined symbiotic life cycle in a realm crawling with hunger,” reads the simple description for Nidus, an upcoming twin-stick shooter from indie developer Caleb Wood. What it describes is some of the most entrancing gameplay snippets and trailers I’ve seen all year. Nidus is…
Surreal Madrid. Games have, over their history, often sought to become interactive movies or cartoons. There is the general decades-long race towards realism in Triple-A games running on higher and higher-specced hardware, the labour-intensive, hand-drawn aesthetic of many indie games like Cuphead or Hoa and, of course, that art form traditionally maligned but subject of…
Roberto is a dog. Roberto loves to carry around very long sticks, canes, poles, pipes, and other such extended, often cylindrical objects. This is Roberto’s calling in life. Your job, in Stick to the Plan, is to help Roberto get his sticks from one point to another. It’s an adorably simple puzzle game from indie…
“The whole mission is to share the work”. Have you ever seen an original Contra up close? What about an original Mario Kart? Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“Not even our colleagues knew what we were doing”. It’s hard to believe it now, but back in the early ‘90s, Nintendo was not the dominant force on UK shores. That accolade went to Sega, whose 8-bit Master System and 16-bit Mega Drive were the driving force behind the console revolution in that region of…
Crying’s not for me. In the most positive sense, it’s amazing what gets approved for release on the Switch. Raindrop Sprinters is an indie title that could well be a mobile phone game in everything except its aesthetic, which accurately resembles an early ’80s arcade title. You play a cat represented by a bobbing paw,…
Box Art Vs. Box Art. Hello one and all, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl. Before we check out this week’s competitors, let’s take a look at how we fared last time. We took a look at New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS, the first entry in the polarising platforming…
What Nintendo deals will appear? Amazon has announced that the next major sales event for Prime members is just around the corner, giving gaming fans – and indeed anyone – a chance to pick up a nice selection of bargains once more. The event will kick off in October 2023 and is called Big Deal…