Tag: news
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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…
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Lou’s Lagoon Review: A Little Island Escape From Reality
Lou’s Lagoon is a relaxed exploration and crafting adventure where you collect resources, help islanders, and fly between tropical islands. It’s a game that’s so well done it felt like a digital remedy for our nerves. Every single aspect seems like it was made to pull us into a beautiful world where joy is attained…
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Ledgerbound Review – Deny the Claim, Save the World, Fall in Love
We like to think we’re well informed about upcoming games. We spend weeks, sometimes months, digging through announcements, showcases, demos and Steam pages to see what’s just around the corner. And when something looks especially promising, we keep an even closer eye on it. Ledgerbound was an anomaly. Not being on our radar bothered us…
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Sovereign Tower Interview: Building a Game Around Time Travel
Sovereign Tower combines several different ideas in one game. It uses hand-drawn visual-novel presentation, point-and-click interaction, management systems and branching timelines, with time travel giving players new ways to approach quests and discover information. Gobert, Creative and Art Director at WILD WITS, says that one of the hardest parts of development was not getting the…
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Sunday Sims Spotlight #13: Home Chef Hustle
Our favorite part of every Stuff Packs is when we discover that the devs have added another hobby for our Sims to pick up. Home Chef Hustle is a DLC that gives us a reason to do something more profitable with all the food we’ve been making. Now we can bake pizzas, prepare waffles, and…
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AI Text-to-Speech with Read Aloud TTS
Do you often come across articles or documents you’d rather listen to? Text-to-speech technology offers massive benefits. Not only is it an invaluable accessibility tool for the visually impaired, but it’s also highly useful for YouTubers looking to add professional voiceovers to their videos. While there are countless AI readers on the market, we’re highlighting…
