This year’s crop of cozy games felt like it ran completely perpendicular to the trends in PC gaming as a whole. The main release calendar for this year was mostly lacking obvious blockbusters, leaving room for some really delightful surprise hits. Meanwhile, the best cozy games of this year mostly wound up being the ones…
The developers of Catly, a game about cats, have denied using generative AI to create the announcement trailer that debuted last week at The Game Awards, and have also rejected suggestions that their game is built on blockchain technology or makes use of NFTs. We missed Catly when it was announced during last week’s show,…
In news that’s only surprising on account of the fact that the game lasted as long as it did, Tuque Games’ co-op hack-and-slasher Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance will be shutting down servers and be removed from sale on February 24, 2025. The game will still be available to play single-player, but as things stand…
“A unicorn is worth more than riches”. In 2009, in the run-up to Christmas, I remember poring over a recent issue of Official Nintendo Magazine looking for games I might want for the holiday season. Flicking through the pages and taking in every single word, one review in particular jumped out at me. The art…
From ongoing buyout talks, to debate around whether Assassin’s Creed Shadows looks brilliant or a bit ‘meh’, there’s a lot of uncertainty looming over Ubisoft Towers at the moment. But whatever you think of the up-and-down studio, there’s no question that they have a bunch of great games in their back-catalogue. Now, for the negligible…
What’s your hour count..? 2024 is coming to a close, which means it’s time to review how you’ve been spending your time with the Nintendo Switch over the last 12 months. Yes, Nintendo’s ‘Year in Review’ tool is now available and, just like last year’s edition, let’s you see exactly how many games you’ve played,…
How bad could cutting into a pipe filled with highly pressurized corrosive goo be? A question I have asked myself many times in just the first few hours of playing Creeper World IXE (pronounced “icks”), the latest in a long-running oddball indie strategy series. The answer, somehow, is always “very bad”. And yet I continue…
Flareon achieves victory. Pokémon games have often been derided as being too easy for veteran players, which is why fan-made challenges such as Nuzlocke have become so popular over the years. There’s one challenge, however, that’s been described as the most difficult of them all, and it’s taken streamer PointCrow a total of 3,978 resets…
Category: Games December 18, 2024 Creating Atomfall’s Haunting Casterfell Woods – Check Out Exclusive New Screenshots Ryan GreeneArt Director, Atomfall A few weeks ago, we released the latest trailer for Atomfall, our upcoming game where you will have to uncover the mystery behind what happened at the UK’s Windscale nuclear power station in the 1950s….
From the developer of ‘Hoonigans’ and ‘Nitro’. Shane McCafferty, the co-founder of the developer Rocketship Park and designer of the impressive Game Boy Color racing games Hoonigans and Nitro, is currently working on a promising new title for the classic Nintendo handheld that looks to be a randomly generated platformer similar in style to Mossmouth’s…