About three years ago Cory Davis, the creative director of Spec Ops: The Line, and Robin Fink, long-time guitarist with bands like Nine Inch Nails and Guns n’ Roses, announced their game studio Eyes Out by doing some screeching in the California desert. Now we’ve got the impressively atmospheric trailer for Sleep Awake, a “first…
Surprise, Expanse fans—and congrats to sci-fi game fans in general—because developer Owlcat Games has just announced The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. The trailer was revealed at the start of the Future Games Show, and you can watch it above. This’ll be just the second videogame based on The Expanse after the Telltale release, and from the…
Tri-forced new content. Editor’s Note: As this is our first ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’ review (and with many more to come, potentially), we want to outline their focus from the off. Our existing reviews — in this case for Breath of the Wild, both the Wii U and Switch versions, and the DLC — are…
“The river is a god, and they killed her” is a hell of a way to start off a trailer, but that’s how things get rolling in the new video for All Will Rise, which despite sounding like some sort of supernatural thriller is in fact a “narrative courtroom deck-builder” about ordinary people holding the…
Dune: Awakening’s sandworms aren’t just scary, they’re the most brutally punishing feature of Funcom’s new survival MMO. When you get eaten by a sandworm, you permanently lose all your stuff. Weapons, armor, tools, gear, your entire inventory gets swallowed up when Shai-Hulud sucks you down, and you can’t go back and recover it. Even your…
Gecko Gods has released its first demo as part of the Wholesome Direct alongside showcasing a brand new trailer for the reptile adventure, and as someone who has kept an eye on the development of this game since 2021 I could not be more thrilled. It’s been a while since we’ve received any sort of…
Instants, a story-rich puzzle game that tells its narrative through a series of family photo albums, has launched alongside the Wholesome Direct. Throughout the game you’ll watch the family grow and experience significant life events like learning how to ride a bike, family vacations, and moving house. You know, all that sentimental stuff that brings…
When Spring rolls around each year, so many people I know will flock to fields and forests to gather wild garlic. But, that’s as far as their foraging goes. When woodlands are filled with mushrooms ripe for the picking, the same crowd of enthusiastic gatherers don’t trust themselves to collect everything edible because there’s more…
Now that I’ve put aside Balatro (for now) and Blue Prince (for now), I’m on the lookout for the next creative and unusual roguelike. And I may have just found it: at Wholesome Games Direct today, there was a trailer for Omelet You Cook, a game where you make breakfast for a series of picky…
Powerwashing is great, but sooner or later everything is clean. And yeah, it’ll get dirty again one day and you’ll be able to leap back into industrial cleaning action, but what to do until then? Here’s one idea: Blowing leaves. Leaf blowers in the real world are a scourge upon humanity: Howling noisemakers that irritate…