Tag: games
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We’re celebrating our 500th article with a Dead Party giveaway!
Reaching 500 articles is a pretty special milestone for us, and we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate than by sharing a few games with our readers. A big thank you to everyone who has visited Dev & Play Media, read our articles, left a comment, or supported what we’re doing along the…
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Annihilated Review – Breaking Weapons and Saving Broken Heroes
Saving the world with heroes is such an overdone formula, don’t you think? The real challenge is trying to rescue a legendary group of adventurers who have lost their powers, their bodies, and, most likely, their minds. The talented devs at Death Kumiai have neatly packaged this idea into a story-driven roguelite RPG called Annihilated.…
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Nobody Wanted to Be the Zombie: Galin on Making Disbond Fun for Everyone
Galin remembers a particular problem with the old zombie mods in Counter-Strike: Source: nobody wanted to be the zombie. Shooting the infected was great fun, but being the target of all those bullets was another story. With Disbond, the multiplayer shooter he’s developing under Bozz Studio, he wanted the infected players to have just as…
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Hubert Review – Being a Good Dog Is Hard Work
Taking care of sheep sounds like a reasonably easy job, especially when you have four legs and a powerful bark. It makes perfect sense to us but, unfortunately, nobody seems to have explained this to the sheep. Hubert, developed by Brocap Studio, is a game that cutely puts us in the paws of an enthusiastic,…
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33 Days till Extraction Review – An Army of the Dead and a Kitchen to Run
33 Days till Extraction doesn’t make a good first impression. Its opening slides throw around all sorts of grand-sounding terms, apparently suggesting some incredibly deep lore that we never really learn anything about. The artwork doesn’t help matters. We’re looking at these enormous, Halo-inspired soldiers wearing armor with shoulder pads that seem almost comically impractical.…
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Shardwatch Dominion Review – Surrounded and Outnumbered on PS5
Shardwatch Dominion is a tower defence game where monsters attack from every direction as we try to protect a fortress with a limited number of towers and resources. Developed for consoles by Huge Pixel and published by Brainium Games, this cheap-as-chips strategy game has a few interesting ideas for those who enjoy planning defences and…
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The Division 2: Echoes of Central Park Review – Manhattan Has Gone Feral
The first Division completely took us by surprise, and we played the hell out of that game. Waiting for the second game to come out was a different kind of hell, as we watched and rewatched trailers, counting the days until we could finally jump in. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re huge fans of…
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Everlast: Undying Tale Review – Being Undead Is Hard Work
Everlast: Undying Tale is an interesting choice for players who enjoy old-school MMORPG progression. If you’re perfectly okay with spending an afternoon mining ore or improving a crafting skill rather than fighting monsters, then this could be right up your alley. Developer InSpades combines those familiar systems with real-time combat, a colorful fantasy world, and…
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Nothing Stays Separate in ZHAI: Maher Chebli on Memories, Combat, and Building Il’Navir
A while back, we wrote about ZHAI and its intriguing approach to combat, where the hero’s missing memories directly influence what they’re capable of doing in a fight. We saw plenty of potential in the idea, and saying that the core mechanics caught our attention would be quite an understatement. Making that idea work across…
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Gennady Review – One Angry Man Against an Alien Nightmare
If you enjoy old-school platformers with a good dose of difficulty and questionable humor, then Gennady should not be overlooked. Developed by Feed 64, it’s a fast-paced action platformer about a middle-aged man who finds himself trapped inside an alien meat-processing factory, wearing nothing but his underwear. Poor fellow. As if being abducted wasn’t bad…
