Tag: news
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High Times Review – Conversations Worth Coming Back For
High Times is a remarkable hybrid of a game. It charmingly lets us run a café by mixing in cooking mini-games and asking us to find love. It takes those ideas and combines them into something surprisingly cohesive. It’s not simply about serving food as quickly as possible. Here, we’re expected to listen. Every customer…
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Advent: Dawn Review- Compex Branching Visual Novel
Being trapped underground with six strangers is already a situation nobody wants to experience. We’ve been stuck in an elevator for almost an hour and we know how quickly things can take a wrong turn. Advent: Dawn makes a group of people slowly begin questioning each other, paving the road for an engaging psychological mystery.…
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DIVE or DIE – Children of Rain
Before the release of the game, we remember playing the demo and being entirely enthralled by it. That demo allowed us to get fully immersed into the dark world of DIVE or DIE – Children of Rain and to try our best to survive the first 10 days by diving and fighting in an unforgiving…
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Swinging to Sanity: Our Review of Grapple Bear
Have you ever looked at a massive grizzly and thought, “I bet they’d be great at aerial acrobatics?” Neither had we, until Grapple Bear swung into our lives. You play as a determined mama bear on a desperate mission to find her lost cub, and her only tool to navigate the treacherous wilds is—you guessed…
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Mega Interview about Rebuilding Star Trek Online’s Legacy
Sixteen years is an eternity in the world of live-service games. For the development team at Cryptic Studios, keeping Star Trek Online thriving has meant constantly balancing the demands of a massive, evolving player base against the technical realities of an MMO originally built in just 18 months. Now, with the release of the Undiscovered…
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Moss: The Forgotten Relic – Amazing collection!
We remember fondly when the first Moss came out. It was at the same time that we got our PSVR, and everyone was saying how adorable Moss was and that it was a crime not to try the game. We didn’t just try the game, we lived it! Polyarc created a title that grabbed us…
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Celestial Return: Learning to Live With Your Mistakes
Sitting down to review a game feels pretty straightforward. You look at the mechanics, test the gameplay, follow the story, and write down your thoughts. But every once in a while, a title crosses our path that completely throws that standard formula out the window. Celestial Return is exactly that kind of experience. Going into…
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From God of War to Sharks: Interview about Forging Swordcery
Swordcery is an upcoming hack-and-slash roguelite ARPG launching in Early Access on August 11th. Behind this wonderfully chaotic world of Armorial is Temple Door Games, a two-man indie studio based in Los Angeles. But founders Mike Henriet and Don Thurakichprempri aren’t your average indie newcomers; they were part of the elite cinematic animation team that…
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Denshattack! – The Coolest Train You’ll Ever Drive
We love games like Denshattack!. We love them because they feel unlike anything else, and even though the arcade action and platforming market is pretty oversaturated, the talented devs at Undercoders still managed to bring something new to the table. If we had to put a label on it, imagine a fast-paced extreme sports game—like…
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Ascend to ZERO Review: Every Second Counts
Thirty seconds isn’t much time to save the world. Every mistake eats into the clock, every pause becomes another chance to survive, and before long we found ourselves treating every second like a precious resource. With Ascend to ZERO, it didn’t take long before we stopped thinking in minutes and started thinking in seconds. As…
