Canadians of a certain age will likely recall the Friendly Giant urging them to “look up—way up” at the beginning of each of his children’s television adventures. I thought of those words today in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement of an overhaul of its Game Pass program, which among other things is now a whole…
Happy Holidays, everyone! We can’t believe it’s almost over! 2014 has been an absolutely mental year for the Roll7 Team. Starting with the launch of OlliOlli on PS Vita back in January, the PlayStation Nation has welcomed us into their hardcore hearts and minds from the word “grind.” As we all grew up on a…
Unofficially, of course! One of the stranger (yet not entirely unwelcome) trends of recent years has been the gradual increase in native ports of N64 titles to the Sega Dreamcast, offering people a brand new way to experience Nintendo’s classics on Sega hardware. In the past, for instance, we’ve seen the likes of Star Fox…
Cruelty Squad is undoubtedly one of the weirdest indie breakthroughs of this decade, a wilfully obtuse and unpleasant immersive sim in which you play a corporate assassin in a lo-fi 3D world painted with vomit. But we dug its counter-cultural (and counter-mechanical) approach and, following its success, the developer has since been working on a…
Thanks to Amiga Addict. Amiga Format was one of the leading publications covering Commodore’s 16-bit home computer back in the day, and it is making a return to newsagents thanks to the team behind Amiga Addict, a modern-day magazine devoted to celebrating the legacy of the system. The one-off issue has been produced with the…
And just like that, the year is over. While 2025’s new game release calendar saw the occasional dry spell, we were never left lacking for long, and with a gauntlet of big shooter releases barely behind us, I’m ready for some downtime. I’ll need it before the new 2026 games roll in. That’s not to…
Tackling the Great Taste of Pharloom quest in Hollow Knight: Silksong is likely one of the most involved quests you’ll pursue in the game. Feeding Loyal Mergwin’s master in the Choral Chambers’ dining hall requires you to collect five unique items from throughout the kingdom, which, in turn, means you’ll have to explore extensively and…
The best part of any cosy game is getting to decorate your own space. Whether that’s a single house, a shopfront, or an entire town, getting to customise your area is what makes these games so relaxing. The odds of you decorating in the same way as the next person are incredibly slim, which makes…
There’s something alluring about high finance, isn’t there? Mostly, I suppose, it’s the promise of generating absolutely enormous amounts of money for very little actual work, but it’s undeniable that the industry—such as it is—has gone out of its way to cloak itself in a certain mystique. The suits, the jargon, the barking into telephones…