Author: Dev and Play Media

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Vampires are nocturnal creatures, reaching their true potential only in the darkest, stillest hours. Appropriately enough, the clock currently reads 3:12 AM. After sinking our teeth into V Rising and spending countless nights building grand castles, converting humans, and mastering vampiric shapeshifting, looking back at our conversation with Jeremy Berson feels like another beautifully surreal experience. Jeremy…

Leonardo Nanfara on Crafting ‘Shadow of the Orient’

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in Interviews

Released on PC on October 6, 2024, Spacelab Games’ ‘Shadow of the Orient’ remains, regrettably, a largely unsung hero. Despite its masterful fusion of beat ’em up mechanics and demanding platforming, the game has garnered only a trickle of reviews. This charming retro-styled gem, brimming with irresistible sweetness, deserves far more than to languish in obscurity.…

Inky Blinky Bob: Corporate Horror Madness

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Let’s be real: the gaming world didn’t exactly have “Lovecraftian hot air balloon combat” on its 2026 bingo card. But here we are. Inky Blinky Bob, the first big swing from Dubai’s Eldelic Games, is easily one of the weirdest things I’ve played this year. It’s essentially what happens when you mix a Victorian travel…

Teardown’s Massive Multiplayer Update Redefines Voxel Chaos

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Pulling off the perfect heist means making a great plan and escaping without a scratch. For a long time, Tuxedo Labs’ hit game Teardown let players live out those crazy, destructive dreams all by themselves. But now, everything has changed! On March 12, 2026, a massive, highly anticipated multiplayer update dropped on Steam. It lets up to…

Vespera Bononia: A Macabre Dance of Magic

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We’ve seen the roguelite genre explode over the last few years, but it’s rare to find a title that feels this specific. Vespera Bononia, the debut from Italian indie studio Power Up Team, takes the claustrophobic, projectile-heavy madness of a 2D bullet-hell and shoves it into a dark, 3D reimagining of medieval Bologna. It’s fast,…

Mythmatch: Olympus Has Fallen

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If you told me that a game about merging twigs and stones would be the most biting critique of Silicon Valley culture in 2026, I’d have laughed. But Mythmatch from Team Artichoke is exactly that. It takes the “casual” mechanics we usually associate with mobile games and turns them into a weapon against greedy gods…

Grind Survivors: Hell on Earth, Re-Rolled

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We’ve reached a point where “survivor-likes” are everywhere, usually sporting the same retro pixel-art look to save on performance. But Grind Survivors, the debut original IP from the Ukrainian team at Pushka Studios, takes a different path. Dropping the pixels for Unreal Engine, they’ve built a dark, high-fidelity bullet-hell that feels more like an ARPG…

How Wuthering Waves 3.2 is Fixing the Daily Grind

Mar 22, 2026

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in news

Kuro Games recently dropped a serious update for their action RPG, Wuthering Waves. Instead of just piling on new combat mechanics, Version 3.2, titled “Resolution to Illuminate the Shadows” focuses on expanding the story and fixing annoying issues that players have complained about for a long time. Version 3.2 Core Features The main story got…

Collector’s Cove – A Floating Oasis or Just Another Drop in the Cozy Gaming Ocean?

Mar 21, 2026

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We’ve all been there. We’ve planted enough pixel-art potatoes and saved enough crumbling grandfatherly farms to last a lifetime. So, when the German four-person team at VoodooDuck announced a farming sim where your “plot” is a boat pulled by a massive, adorable sea monster, I was immediately curious. Collector’s Cove isn’t trying to be the…

Welcome to Dev n’ Play: A New Chapter in Gaming Journalism

Mar 19, 2026

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