Posts

My fondest gaming memory is of 3D Pinball Space Cadet, the iconic pinball game that was included on everyone’s old Windows computer. That’s why anytime I look at a pinball game, I just can’t look at it the same. How can it compare to all the hours I put into 3D Pinball Space Cadet as a child, trying to beat my high score again and again? Well, Demon’s Tilt can sure try, as this pinball game puts you in a kinetic game of demons, flames, and bumpers....

This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Episode 3 When The Purge debuted, it wasn’t exactly full of back story about the hows and whys of the Purge. Over the years, that information has slowly been filled in by sequels and prequels, but while the genesis of The Purge was revealed in The First Purge, one question remains: how long has The Purge been a thing in this universe? Clearly, it’s been long enough to go from a novelty—needing bribes to get people to participate is a thing of the past—to an integral part of the New Founding Fathers of America’s agenda....

Critically-mauled adventure game The Quiet Man has received a new update today, adding voice and sound support. In case you haven’t played the game (and you should probably keep it that way), The Quiet Man features a deaf protagonist who can lip read, although this means you, the player, is unable to actually hear anything during the game. It’s a bizarre concoction, and one that features some piss-poor combat sequences to top it all off....

There are many reasons why The Witcher has accrued such a massive fanbase all over the world. One would’ve assumed that a Polish fantasy series would be strictly limited to enjoying national popularity and nothing more. However, the onset of The Witcher trilogy, exposing a whole host of gamers to the Continent and all its wonders — and horrors. One of the major reasons why people hold The Witcher in such high esteem is its wide swath of well-developed characters that have etched their names in pop culture history as some of the most memorable characters to have come up in recent memory....

While every Witcher fan loves the dramatic sagas that Geralt goes through, sometimes the best times they have with their fave grumpy warrior are the heartbreaking, enchanting, or absolutely bizarre side quests they end up on. After all, everyone loves Ciri. But who doesn’t remember their first misadventure with Roach in tow? It may get crazy, but it’s always loads of fun to feel like you ended up somewhere special all on your own....

The biggest name in video games is on the unemployment line, it seems. On Nintendo’s official Japanese website (via Kotaku) Super Mario is a plumber, no more. ‘All around sporty, whether it’s tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, he [Mario] does everything cool,’ the video game mainstay’s profile reads on Nintendo’s Mario Portal. ‘As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago…’...

The Wii kept survival horror flourishing even as the Playstation 3 and XBOX 360 let the medium fall by the wayside. Titles like Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Fatal Frame and Obscure: The Aftermath can be found very cheap these days if you still have the system. Motion Controls are Immersive, And Spooky The Wii was the only system with “point and shoot” Resident Evil 4, where it was possible to use the Wii-remote to aim....

There are some movies out there that I consider to be “half-horrors.” Films that aren’t necessarily shocking, but are completely capable of giving you the creeps all the same. Creepy button-up doll eyes or the uncanny valley claymation set on Halloween are some of the things that come to mind. Tandem: A Tale of Two Shadows fits there perfectly, with the game’s terrifically gothic setting, a creepy doll with a hunchback, and a protagonist with an incredibly uncanny look....

Big Evil Corp is bringing retro-flavoured platformer Tanglewood to the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis if you’re across the pond) and PC on August 14. Tanglewood doffs its cap to the classic 16-bit endeavours from Virgin Games in the 90s, and takes the form of a side-scrolling platform game with a pinch of metroidvania thrown into the mix. You hop into the fluffy boots of Nymn, a fox-like being trapped in the game’s titular wilds who is on a mission to return to the family pack....

Most of the birds found in Pokémon games have been somewhat mundane, based on species such as sparrows, pigeons, or, robins. Temtem has decided to go down a different route and instead based Tuwai on a more exotic breed: the Toucan. However, Tuwai is more than just another bird in a monster collecting game. Tuwai are meta-mimetic Temtem, which means they don’t evolve in the same way as other Temtem. Instead, Tuwai will only evolve under certain conditions....

Breeding in Temtem just got a lot harder thanks to an increase in breeding gear prices. Temtem are like Pokémon, only not. And just like in Pokémon, they can breed. Only breeding doesn’t work quite the same way. You still need on male and one female Temtem in order for the magic to happen. You also need to have Temtem that are at least of the same type (ie. only Water-types can breed with other Water-types)....

Steam’s big Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale ended only what seems like a week ago, but here they are starting two more weeks of cash saving fun. Only this time, there’s a huge opportunity to win free games as well! Introducing the ‘Great Steam Treasure Hunt’, where every 48 a new set of objectives will release and upon completing enter gamers into a raffle to win their top 5 wishlist games. In addition, at the end of the contest (Dec....

Squad-based strategy games are seemingly timeless. They continue to be made, but the only real changes to the genre are upgraded graphics and sound. This is probably because one of the early examples of this type of game, XCOM, perfected the formula for everyone else to copy. These games typically consist of controlling a squad of characters across a level/map and having to adjust your strategy along the way due to obstacles....

There’s a good reason Mario is known as the king of platformers. And that reason is the brilliant level designers at Nintendo. Fans don’t come to Mario games for a fulfilling story as most of them feature only a slight twist on what was first told all the way back in 1985. The villainous turtle Bowser steals Princess Peach, causing the heroic Mario to brave treacherous lands in order to save her....

If you were a Pokemon fan back in the 1990s, you probably have a fair few old Pokemon Trading Card Game cards stashed somewhere in the back of your closet. We all had a few Caterpies and Rattattas lying around from this trend, and if you managed to collect a coveted card like a holographic Charizard, you were the talk of the school playground and truly got lucky. New Pokemon cards are still being produced to this day, making many of the oldest Pokemon cards even harder to find....

There are few things better than engaging in good activities with good friends. In The Ascent, you have plenty of activities for you and up to three buddies. Granted, most of those activities revolve around going to places and shooting a whole bunch of dudes. But as a video game, that sounds right up my alley. Today, we got a new action-packed trailer for The Ascent, which is coming to PC via Steam sometime this year....

The highly anticipated launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard introduced a single player campaign, a new multiplayer experience, and the continuation of the dark aether story in Zombies. It’s no secret that light machine guns pack a punch across all of these Call of Duty modes. It appears that Vanguard is no different here, and there’s a range of them to choose from. The MG42 returns, and you can create a powerful MG42 light machine gun class in Vanguard by equipping the best attachments....

Back in 2016, Bethesda aimed to circumvent Steam’s 30% revenue cut by putting out the Bethesda Launcher. This alternative to more generalized digital gaming storefronts naturally offered all the games published under Bethesda, but it ditched modding support, which wasn’t ideal considering the company is infamous for its buggy releases. The unpopularity of the Bethesda Launcher led to the company announcing in February that the service would shut down sometime in May....

If you’ve watched the last two Sacha Baron Cohen-headlined comedies, Borat and Bruno, then you’d be right to have a fair idea of what you’re going to get from The Dictator. In spite of being far more overtly scripted than the previous two films (after all, who wouldn’t hang around now when they see Sacha Baron Cohen and a camera crew approaching), The Dictator is still keen to push similar buttons....

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is receiving a staggered release for PC, although we don’t have a time frame for when all the games will launch. However, according to co-developer Splash Damage, the entire collection is going to come out by the end of the year. The newsletter (via ResetEra) states clearly that ‘Halo: Reach is coming first, with the rest of the titles scheduled throughout the year,’ seemingly confirming that all of the games – Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4 – will be out in 2019....