Tag: games
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Zhai brings a strange origin story to an open-world adventure
In our time playing games, we’ve come across plenty of unusual titles, and a good chunk of them focus on a warrior who has lost their memory. Zhai fits that mold, but its origins make it twice as unique. The upcoming open-world action-adventure from The Orange Giant started with an experience one of the studio’s…
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition: Fellowship Worth Joining
In 2011, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was a game we loved dearly. Soon after watching the trilogy and reading the first book, this game fell into our laps completely by accident. We remember approaching it with a lot of skepticism, thinking it was just another quick cash grab, but boy…
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Interview with Mark Mocherad about Rebuilding POLYSTRIKE: From Mod to UE5 Shooter
POLYSTRIKE began as a simple experiment: what would a tactical first-person shooter look like from an overhead perspective? That question turned into a viral Dota 2 mod played by over 200,000 people. Today, the project is being rebuilt from scratch as a standalone 5v5 competitive title in Unreal Engine 5. The founder of Robin Entertainment…
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1666: Amsterdam Review — A Witch Worth Following?
The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice, is one of our favorite books. We love what Rice did with witchcraft—particularly the way she mixed folklore, history, and the lives of the people caught up in it. So when 1666: Amsterdam appeared, saying we were intrigued was quite the understatement. A game about witches in 17th-century Amsterdam,…
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Free Sci-Fi Game ‘State of Mind’ Available Now
PC gamers can grab the 2018 sci-fi thriller State of Mind for free on GOG.com. The story is set in Berlin in the year 2048. In this grim future, humans live in fear of being replaced by robots, and a strict government stops people from speaking out. You play as Richard Nolan, a man who…
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Interview about Building Sublight: Battleships, Missiles, and 5-Hour Runs
Bullet heaven games like to keep things simple. They’re perfectly ok with allowing you to move and dodge enemies while your weapons do the talking by firing automatically in every direction. Codebrew Software LTD is taking a different path with Sublight, an upcoming space action game that asks players to pay attention to where their…
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Sunday Sims Spotlight #14: Making Chores Matter
Doing laundry is one of those things that was bound to creep into a life simulator like The Sims. Laundry Day Stuff was a welcome pack that was, strangely enough, also an unusual project from the beginning. You might not have known that the community, including the author of this text, voted on the overall…
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Mind Diver Review: Getting Lost Inside Someone Else’s Memories
In Mind Diver you aren’t investigating a crime scene in the traditional sense but are diving into someone’s memories. You’re swimming past fragments of events and pieces of a life that no longer fit together properly. The deeper you go, the more apparent it becomes that the mind isn’t a place you’re supposed to understand.…
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Hell Let Loose: Vietnam Review — Learning to Slow Down
Hell Let Loose has spent years putting players into large multiplayer battles. It all may have started with a World War II setting, but now it’s off to Vietnam. And it’s a lot different, not just in terms of weapons and vehicles, but in terms of the battlefields and how we should approach them. It’s…
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Swordcery Review: When Every Sword Has a Trick
Swordcery is a game with swords everywhere and enemies coming at us from all directions. There are also plenty of magical attacks to throw around, which is a great incentive to find not necessarily better, but different swords, learn what they can do, and use them to survive increasingly difficult encounters. Cutting Through the Chaos…
