Tag: news
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DragonSword: Awakening: The Gacha-Free RPG We Always Wanted
We have a strange love/hate relationship with games like Genshin Impact. We love the vibrant worlds, memorable casts, satisfying combat, and the simple joy of wandering off the beaten path just to see what’s over the next hill. What we don’t love are the gacha mechanics. After spending more than 400 hours and far more…
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Interview About Forging DragonSword: Awakening: UE5, Anime Worlds, and Action
For the development team behind DragonSword: Awakening, building a new open-world action RPG meant heavily modifying Unreal Engine 5. The game pairs a bright, anime-inspired aesthetic with a 19-character tag-team combat system, all set across a massive map. In this recently released game, we follow a boy named Lute across the Continent of Orbis. It’s…
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Blood in the Snow: A Review of Grim Dawn – Fangs of Asterkarn
It has been a long time since we first set foot in Grim Dawn. Over the years, Crate Entertainment has expanded this rich universe in meaningful ways. With Fangs of Asterkarn, the studio is asking veteran players to return once again. This isn’t an expansion that stands on its own, either; it requires both Ashes…
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How OFFBEAT Hides a Working DAW Inside a Tycoon Game
The digital audio workstation—or DAW— can be a major roadblock for aspiring musicians. Modern music software offers limitless creative potential, but it can be scary staring down a dense interface packed with digital dials, endless menus, and complex routing pathways. We’ve tried and we know how frustrating it can be. Ed Sibley, Studio Head at…
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Halo: Campaign Evolved Review – The Remake We Always Imagined
Everyone has a Halo story. For us, Halo: Combat Evolved was the reason we invited our crush over after school, stayed up far too late on weekends, and argued over who got to drive the Warthog. Twenty-five years later, those memories still run strong, making it one of the hardest games to remake. Everyone remembers…
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Lifted Review: A Memorable Adventure
We have a soft spot for adventure games that aren’t afraid to wear their inspirations on their sleeve. Every now and then a game comes along that reminds us why we fell in love with these kinds of stories in the first place. LIFTED immediately gave us that feeling. From its opening minutes, it channels…
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Inside Wilds: Turning Doodles Into 3D Heroes
The developers at Night Zookeeper have built their reputation on fostering childhood creativity across books, television, and educational web platforms. Now, they are bringing that same ethos to the video game space with Wilds by Night Zookeeper, a multiplayer title that asks players to draw their own characters from scratch and watch them spring to…
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CULTIC Review: Explosive Bloodbath
After watching a couple of videos about CULTIC, we kinda expected another retro-inspired shooter that borrowed the best parts of classics like Blood. We got some of that, but, more importantly, we found something that feels familiar on the surface before gradually revealing its own identity. CULTIC delivers the fast-paced action we hoped for, but…
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Welcome to Kowloon Review: 50-Minute Panic Attack
Finding affordable housing has become its own kind of horror story. Between rising prices and tiny apartments the idea of finding a cheap place to live can already feel like a nightmare. Welcome to Kowloon is a game that adds a landlord who wants to make that nightmare literal. We hope you’re in a mood…
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I Know a Spot Review – Finding Peace One Campsite at a Time
After spending hours chasing map markers, completing quests, and watching progress bars fill up, I Know a Spot feels almost strange. It asks us to park a car, build a campsite, and simply stay there. After spending some time with the game, that seems like just what the doctor ordered. The first thing we did…
