Echo Point Nova is a wonder. Greylock Studio’s indie FPS enchanted us in 2024 with its high-flying, hoverboarding, hyperchill gunplay, and—if ziplining onto a cloud with an energy grappling hook to shotgun blast an enemy soldier during a slow-motion backflip somehow left any room for doubt—it secured a permanent place in our hearts with a…
For those who haven’t seen the light, Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative horde shooter involving a bunch of dwarves mining a planet for an uncaring mega corp. It’s basically Left 4 Dead but instead of zombies, you’re shooting bugs, and you’ve also got to collect materials. Dare I say it: DRG is the best…
Welcome back! This month, Tom Clancy’s The Division topped the PlayStation 4 charts, followed closely by an impressive debut for Ska Studios’ Salt and Sanctuary. Rocket League rounds out the top three, with strong showings from MLB The Show 16 and the ever-popular Minecraft just after that. Read on for the full lists, and let…
Fortnite has evolved from a tower-defense survival game to the world’s most popular battle royale, virtual concert host, and developer playground. Now Epic Games is introducing a new title into the groundbreaking Fortnite ecosystem: LEGO Fortnite. We had the opportunity to get an early hands-on experience to get a small, yet very promising taste of…
I ain’t afraid of no Geist. Everyone, we like to believe, has a made a secret list for every single console they’ve ever owned, of weird and/or experimental stuff they either want to, or wished they had, played. Sometimes you get round to them, sometimes you don’t. You know the sort of thing. For me,…
The developers behind the upcoming Nintendo Switch title, Bravely Default II, recently took part in an interview with Japanese publication, Famitsu. Here, they spoke in great length about a number of topics such as the possibility of another demo being released, the thought process behind the name of the title, Octopath Traveller and they also…
Hi everyone! Happy new year and welcome to 2048… Erm, sorry, I mean 2021! I’m super excited to be here to give you a very special update on our upcoming cyberpunk stealth-action RPG Disjunction: a release date. I’m thrilled to say that Disjunction will be releasing on PlayStation 4 on January 28, and will be…
The Steam version of legendary simulation game Dwarf Fortress has a vital new patch out updating the graphical edition to work on ye olde Linux, a most dorky operation system for that most dorky of games. It was a delayed release, mostly because primary developer Tarn Adams just got over a bout with covid. Per…
The roguelike genre is one of my favourite ever. I love that it’s like a special sauce you can mix with countless other genres to create bold new flavours—from card games, to bullet hell, to survival, to RTS, and more. That’s why I’ve put together a quiz testing my fellow fans on their knowledge of…
My recent hands-on time with the ROG Xbox Ally, Asus and Microsoft’s joint handheld gaming PC, had me impressed. So it might not be all bad news that Asus is considering this handheld to be the ROG Ally 2 that many have been asking and waiting for. Though given we don’t know pricing, yet, I…