In the time it took to write and publish last week’s Character Select about the Very Cool x Minecraft collaboration, almost the entire thing sold out. Fewer than 10 pieces are currently listed on the website, and an even smaller number of each size, if any at all. So while I wait for my precious…
It’s the holiday season, which means it is time to sit down and watch The Star Wars Holiday Special. It has become something of a cult classic since its one and only airing forty years ago. This made for TV masterpiece told the story of Chewbacca, his wife Mallatobuck (Malla) and his son Lumpawaroo (Lumpy)….
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Three Fields Entertainment, developers of Dangerous Golf, Danger Zone, and most recently the Burnout-meets-Trackmania mashup Wreckreation, has announced that it has put its entire staff on notice of redundancy, as the studio explained it “will not see revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future.” In a statement posted to X, Three Fields’ CEO Fiona…
As someone who’s spent an excessive amount of time micromanaging entire civilizations, the industrious little rodents of Whiskerwood have to be the cutest critters I’ve ever lorded over. The adorable cat-and-mouse city builder puts you in charge of a fledgling mouse colony filled with hardworking, skilled laborers who don’t seem to know they’re the only…
“I’m waiting for an update, it’s impossible to play”. Apart from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, one other significant Switch 2 release this week was the third-party title Assassin’s Creed Shadows. While Ubisoft’s new feudal Japan outing has been mostly well-received by critics on Nintendo’s new hybrid platform, it seems the experience hasn’t been quite as…
Extreme sports sim Descenders Next looked primed to be an impressive follow-up to Ragesquid’s 2019 hit, taking the fundamentals which made Descenders’ downhill biking such a thrill and applying them to snowboarding and mountain-boarding. PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott took it for a spin last year and came away delighted, stating the sequel” adopts all of…
Generational drama. They say history repeats itself, and right now I’m living through a redux of my own childhood gaming obsession. To understand my plight, we need to rewind to 1988. I had cut my gaming teeth on a dusty Atari 2600 my dad picked up at a garage sale. I loved me some Missile…
World War 1 survival horror Conscript was one of the bigger surprises of last year, with its unvarnished depiction of a French soldier’s journey through the battle of Verdun thoroughly impressing reviewer Alexander Chatziioannou. “Every aspect of the game feels meticulously crafted to convey the absurdity and depravity of war,” he wrote in his Conscript…
The recent history of real-time strategy has been more dark age than golden era, but there have been a few bright spots over the last decade. One of those is Northgard, a Viking-themed RTS that was released in 2018. Built on traditional strategy foundations, Northgard added novel ideas like game-altering weather systems and a region-based…