Birthdays the Beginning is a sandbox game where you manipulate a flat landscape on a cube world to evolve and propagate different species. It’s Sim City meets Viva Piñata, but with an array of organisms […]

Arkane’s latest game is one with a complicated heritage and not the first to be conceived under the circumstances of its own namesake. The first Prey was released over ten years ago, and it too was birthed […]

If Dragon Quest Heroes II: Twin Kings and the Prophecy’s End was personified, it would be the second child of a successful doctor-lawyer union, who is expected to attend Harvard and is being pressured to […]

When The Longest Journey appeared almost a decade ago, I was immediately drawn to it. It had the kind of dark fantasy plot I typically enjoy, a female hero, and it was listed as an […]

Old Man’s Journey is an instructively titled puzzle adventure game about an old man who goes on a journey. You don’t know where he’s going, only that he set off after receiving a bit of […]

Two and a half hours. That’s a new record of how quickly I’ve given up on a game. Yes, in the same time it would take you to watch Inception, Strafe managed to bore me […]

Bulletstorm is a great game, and one I think didn’t receive the kind of praise and note that it should have at the time of its initial release. It was released at a time when […]

Games offer escapism like no other medium can. You can be thrust into the middle of a battlefield or spend a day in the exhilarating life of an accountant. Games offer up power fantasies, and […]

Designing Dawn of War III (DoW3) was always going to be a divisive challenge as the previous Dawn of War games were very different to each other. Rather than incorporating the best elements from both […]

I have found that, in general, the puzzle-platformer genre is an excellent place to look for a particularly unique experience. A set of well-designed puzzles can alone make for an enthralling experience, but when you […]