Star Wars Zero Company is a very safe XCOM descendant, but its most interesting parts are found in its Midnight Suns DNA

Star Wars Zero Company is giving the people what they want. And that is: more XCOM. The turn-based shootouts, perishable soldiers and those beautiful moments where you survive by the skin of your teeth because of judicious use of overwatch—it all unapologetically calls to mind the two games that have defined the modern tactics genre….

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AYANEO Announces Yet Another Colourway Of Its GBA-Inspired Pocket Advance & Some People Aren’t Impressed

The company faces accusations of “punishing” existing customers. Since the initial announcement of GBA-inspired KONKR Pocket Advance back in July of this year, AYANEO has taken a very deliberate approach to marketing the Android-based handheld, drip-feeding reveal after reveal to keep it in the spotlight. For most people interested in the device, it was inevitably…

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into

I recently had a chance to play a healthy chunk of the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a—you guessed it—racing game where you can hop behind the seat of a handful of different vehicles: Landspeeders, a skim speeder, and speeder-bikes. There’s also, naturally, podracing. Each of these vehicles handles differently—landspeeders are the most consistent (they’re…

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