Never in my life have I felt like the screenshots I take while playing games are worth printing out and displaying on the wall. They’re barely good enough to stick under a magnet on the fridge, mostly because they’re things like map locations or places I promise myself I’ll come back to and never do….
‘False Sense of Security’. Developer Creative Assembly has released a short teaser trailer for something related to Alien: Isolation. Titled ‘False Sense of Security’, the short video showcases a door opening into a rain-drenched exterior location, with the iconic save station visible in the background. The Creative Assembly logo displays before we’re treated to a…
Last Flag, the new multiplayer shooter from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds, released onto Steam earlier this month. While it’s hard to glean precisely from the outside, the response to it seems to have been muted, despite developer Night Street games doing everything they could to raise its profile. The studio…
The naked guy happily reaching out towards what I promise is a giraffe adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene, don’t you think? A quirky touch of class, maybe? A dramatic representation of humanity’s desire to strive for the unknown? Perhaps I’m getting a little too deep in my inkwell after being…
It didn’t just revolutionize a franchise – it reshaped the entire video game industry, much like Super Mario Bros. had done more than a decade earlier. Just as the 1985 NES classic defined the blueprint for side-scrolling platformers, Super Mario 64 established the foundation for 3D game design. Before Mario’s leap into 3D, few developers…
“Look into my eye”. Today, 26th April, is ‘Alien Day’. I know at least some of you might be scratching your head and wondering why, so let me very briefly explain. The planet on which James Cameron’s Aliens takes place is called LV-426. Get it? 426. April 26. There we go. Alien Day. Read the…
For much of its early access development, Shapez 2 was an interesting alternative to the tentpole automation sims like Factorio and Satisfactory. A more streamlined affair that dispensed with many of the supplementary systems seen in those aforementioned games, Shapez 2 adopted a more puzzle-centric approach to assembly-line construction. That’s still very much the case….
Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 offered an intriguing story when it finally released last year, but mechanically The Chinese Room’s vampire RPG felt a little anaemic compared to the wild kitchen-sink design of Troika’s original. Its combat, for example, revolved almost entirely around vampire-based fisticuffs, with guns and melee weapons reduced to disposable items wielded through…
R-Type! Punch-Out!! Sega! Nintendo in Brazil! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com R-Type! Punch-Out!! Sega! Nintendo in Brazil! Welcome to Retro Recap, a…
Enter the Gungeon celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this month. Having sold over 14 million copies in its lifetime, Enter the Gungeon was one of the early architects of the modern action roguelike, alongside games like Nuclear Throne, forging the path for the genre’s modern phenomena like Hades, as well as variants of it such…