Homeworld 3 is Blackbird’s ambitious vision for a cinematic sci-fi RTS that was ‘utterly impossible to make’ 20 years ago

“In essence, Homeworld 3 was our original dream for Homeworld 2,” said Rob Cunningham, co-founder of Homeworld 3 developer Blackbird Interactive—and once-upon-a-time co-founder of Relic Entertainment, the developer of the original Homeworld games. Back in 1999 Cunningham was the art director for Homeworld, a fully 3D space RTS that felt unlike anything else in the…

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Shared world puzzle adventure Islands of Insight promises no frustrations, just a real chill time

Puzzle games usually aren’t chillout games. They’re challenges, brainteasers, mindbenders, and frustrations. Islands of Insight is not that kind of puzzle game. There’s no linear path forcing you to tackle every puzzle in a set order, banging your head against whatever you’re stuck on until you break through. Heck, there isn’t even fall damage, so…

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The devs of this ‘freaky and grotesque’ adventure game about a Russian Orthodox nun left Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and they’re out ‘to show that people and authorities are not the same thing’

Not many games have a story like Indika, a game about a 19th century Russian Orthodox nun journeying to the centre of her soul with an “unusual, horn-headed companion.” Drawing inspiration from Dostoevsky and Bulgakov and dripping with dark humour, Indika tells a tale of religion and authority, madness and belief. But also, not many…

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Ironhive turns colony survival into deck-building and is inspired by one of the best tabletop world-building games around

In a genre as oversatured as city builders, it’s sometimes hard to find original concepts, but Ironhive is attempting to reinvent the tried-and-tested formula through deck-building. In this colony survival game, you’re tasked with overseeing the Iron Hive; a rusting bastion where the last remnants of humanity huddle together against the end of the world. …

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