Off to the races. The line-up of Switch 2 titles grows by the day, and now, should it reach its Kickstarter goal, a new arcade racer is getting thrown into the mix. OctaRace is a newly announced top-down racer, with inspirations ranging from Micro Machines to Crash Team Racing (by way of a little Mario…
“Mags are a part of history now”. Julian Rignall is one of the most famous and influential video game journalists of the ’80s and ’90s, having worked on magazines such as Zzap!64, CVG, Mean Machines and Nintendo Magazine System. He would later help to establish IGN as one of the leading video game websites in…
E3 is always an incredibly exciting time for both developers and gamers. At last year’s E3, Rocksteady was out in force because Batman: Arkham Knight was released the week after the show. If you’d told me then that we’d be back in 2016 announcing our next game, I’d have called you crazy – but here…
It’s finally arrived… ‘release week’ is now upon us. That thing developers look forward to and dread in equal measure. Today, you’re free to lock yourselves away, with the lights off and the curtains drawn, and bathe in the primary colours and warm, cuddly characters of our lovely new game, Little Nightmares! It’s been over…
Discover the origins of Go Mecha Ball, a game born from late-night ideas during parental leave. A unique game where a rolling ball transforms into a powerful mecha, capturing the internet’s attention. From viral prototype to securing funding from Microsoft – a developer’s dream come true. Go Mecha Ball began with a critical look at…
Helldivers 2 should be boring by now. Across 220 hours I’ve scrapped thousands of bots, curbstomped armadas of Illuminids, and exterminated enough bugs to fill a small country. I’ve unlocked every base weapon, stratagem, and most ship upgrades. I’ve seen every planet biome 100 times over, memorized the procedure of every mission type, and can…
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Discover the origins of Compile’s classic puzzle game. There are already a bunch of different ways for Puyo Puyo fans to get their fill of the classic ‘falling block’ puzzle game on Nintendo Switch, from the Sega Ages releases of Puyo Puyo and Puyo Puyo 2 to Puyo Puyo Champions and the Puyo Puyo Tetris…
Causal Loop has always been a dream project for us. For the past four years now, it has grown far beyond what we initially expected. Once you start pulling on the thread that unites the game’s story and its mechanics, you realize very quickly that you can’t just brush past certain ideas or dance around…
Released in 2013, and directed by the singular Josef Fares, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was a truly unique game. After their father falls ill, the game follows two, well, brothers as they set out into a strange and often dangerous world – with the twist being that a single player controls both characters…