Tag: books
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Beyond the Game: Masha Svezhentceva on Burnout, Career Uncertainty and Finding Yourself Again
After eight years in game development, Masha Svezhentceva realised that something was missing from her career. As a producer, she spent her days talking to developers, discussing milestones, resolving problems and making sure projects moved forward. Yet somewhere along the way, she began to miss the human side of those conversations. That realisation eventually led…
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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival Review – What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen
We went into Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival thinking about the hours we’d spent with Clive Barker’s Undying all those years ago. Silly us. We expected another story-driven horror adventure with plenty of action and a few gruesome surprises. What we got was, well, considerably worse different. After completing Saber’s latest on PS5 Pro, we’re impressed…
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Allogloom Review – A Twisted Fairy Tale Like No Other
Allogloom is a wonderfully unusual adventure that takes us into a magical world that seems to have been ripped straight out of an illustrated fairy tale and then dipped in just enough darkness to make us think twice about spending the night there. Beneath its beautiful scenery lurk ravenous moths, peculiar residents and a mystery…
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Toy Story 3 Complete Edition Review – These Toys Still Have Plenty of Life Left
We can’t believe it’s been sixteen years since the original release. A decade and a half of waiting to finally return to another adventure with Woody, Buzz and Jessie. That’s what our nephews are saying, not us. Okay, it’s us. We totally couldn’t wait for this! Toy Story 3 Complete Edition brings one of the…
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Disney/Pixar Toy Story: Retro Roundup! Review – To Andy’s Room and Beyond!
We were just kids when we watched the first Toy Story movie, and over the years, we’ve enjoyed every other movie featuring Woody and Buzz. Even though we watched the later ones as grown-ups, they still managed to wake up the children in us and make us giddy all over again. We were beyond happy…
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Dreams of Another: Creation Through Destruction
Dreams of Another establishes itself as a deeply philosophical, artistic work, created by renowned Japanese studio Q-Games, known for innovative titles such as The Tomorrow Children and the PixelJunk series. As a third-person action-adventure game, it does not offer a conventional approach to shooting. Here, as the creators themselves say, “There is no creation without…
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Arctic Drive Demo: A Promising Drive Through the Frozen Wilderness
As big fans of The Long Dark, we gladly jumped at the opportunity to check out Arctic Drive and take an old car into a frozen wilderness, trying to survive with whatever supplies we can find. Arctic Drive combines driving, scavenging, crafting, and survival. In a way, our car serves as our main companion as…
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The Trolley Solution Review – A Little Bit of Moral Chaos
There’s a joke we heard at work that somehow stuck with us. A driver’s brakes completely fail. He has two options: swerve left and hit a group of ten people, or swerve right and hit one guy. He ends up hitting all eleven. Later at the police station, the officer asks, “How on earth did…
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Duelist: Idle Expedition Review – Our Little Army Has a Lot of Work to Do
Duelist: Idle Expedition is a game, or perhaps a companion app, that lets us hire a small army of fantasy adventurers and leave all the dangerous work to them while we get on with everything else. Our cute little pixel-art warriors fight monsters, collect loot and challenge powerful opponents, all while their little world quietly…
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Why Now Is a Great Time to Play Cairn
Cairn has been out for more than half a year, and yet we never had the chance to play it. We watched some reviews and were glad to read how it managed to impress a lot of critics with its touching story and unique climbing mechanics. Weirdly enough, the game was always at the back…
