Tag: video-games
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Port of Jumanah Review: Diving Into Trouble
There is something immediately charming about Port of Jumanah. It is the kind of game that welcomes you with warm colours, cute characters and a soundtrack that makes even swimming around dangerous waters feel strangely relaxing. But, underneath all that cuteness hides quite the complex title that will put all your skills to the test.…
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Guild Wars 2: Code of Creation Interview — What’s Next for Visions of Eternity
With Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity heading into its final chapter, ArenaNet is preparing to send us into the depths of Castora for “Code of Creation.” The update brought the story to a close with six new story chapters. It also changed quite a bit outside of the main narrative, including a new meta-event,…
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Interview: How Canvas City Makes Skating Work as a Tactics Game
Roller skating and turn-based tactics seem like an odd combination. That combination, however, is what makes Canvas City interesting. The game takes the movement and freedom of skating and puts it into a tactical system built around turns, abilities, rails, and ramps. To make those two sides work together, Disc 2 Games had to rethink…
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Brigador Killers Preview: Plenty of Firepower
After seven years of development, Brigador Killers is finally out. Can the isometric view, dense industrial cities, heavy machines, and constant threat of destruction live up to the first game? Aside from climbing into a machine and turning a city block into rubble, we can leave the vehicle, fight on foot, search for equipment, salvage…
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Sunday Sims Spotlight #15: To Hot Tub or not?
What do you do when your Sims need a break from the house? For us, that’s an easy question. We put them in a pool and remove the ladder. Kidding, kidding. When it comes to outdoor RnR, The Sims 4: Perfect Patio Stuff can make the outdoor area of our Sims’ homes a little more…
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Weekend PC Game Pass Suggestions #2: Fighting, Running and Swimming!
Welcome to the PC Game Pass Suggestions series. Every two weeks, we look through the huge Game Pass library to find the most interesting hidden gems and big new games that are truly worth your time. If you are new here, what is Game Pass? Think of it as “Netflix for video games.” It is…
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Serious Sam: Shatterverse Review — Same Chaos, New Sams
We’re old. We played the first Serious Sam when it came out in 2001. We’re also big fans of the series and deeply nostalgic. There are certain things we expect from a Serious Sam game: lots of enemies, lots of guns, lots of explosions, and, at some point, probably a very large creature trying to…
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Star Wars Zero Company Review – XCOM Has Never Felt This Good
We’ve loved XCOM for years. We can never tire of sitting in front of a tactical map and figuring out how to turn a seemingly impossible situation in our favor through careful positioning and taking risks. Then came Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and we absolutely fell in love with the way it took the familiar ideas…
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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…
