Tag: writing
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Clockwork Ambrosia: Fun Mechanics, Fantastic Campaign
Clockwork Ambrosia is a very fun Metroidvania game that we have played for a while now, thanks to the review code granted to us by the lovely people at Plan of Attack. When everything is taken into consideration, the devs made a game with an interesting world design, a great soundtrack, and fun gameplay mechanics,…
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Hellforged: Blending Bullet-Heaven With Extraction Risk
Developer Moonpyre and publisher Grindstone are trying something a bit different with Hellforged. From the Hellforged playtest that we checked out, it seems like they’re taking the screen-clearing chaos of bullet-heaven games and bolting on the tension of an extraction shooter. You’ll be happy to hear that you aren’t just trying to survive; you are…
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Guild Wars 2 ‘The Only Way’: Exclusive Dev Q&A
The wait is finally over for Tyrians. After months of waiting, ArenaNet launched The Only Way, the second major update for Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity. This massive drop pushes you deeper into the mysteries of Castora by introducing a stunning new explorable zone called Eternity’s Garden. It also brings a wave of account-wide…
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Inside SOTO: Evolving the Survivor Genre With Luminas
The survivor roguelite genre has exploded in recent years. It has undeniably been largely defined by the single-character power trips of games like Vampire Survivors and Brotato. But what happens when you take that addictive core loop and introduce the strategic chaos of a full RPG party? That’s exactly what Luminas: Parasite Reign aims to…
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Demon Lord: A Brutal Puzzle in a World that Moves When you Do
Demon Lord: Just a Block is a roguelite that lets us play as a headless demon. If there’s one thing we’re fans of, it’s headless demons—the more the merrier, honestly. In YuWave’s title, we’re out to get revenge on a usurper Dragon Queen. The story is on the shorter side, but it still works well.…
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Madness and Myths: Returning to The Shore on PS5
It’s been five years since The Shore first hit PC. We still remember 2021 pretty clearly—mostly because of the massive tentacled things that brought such a thick, heavy atmosphere with them. It was a solid experience, as long as you were okay with some technical rough edges. Now that the Enhanced Edition has landed on…
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Gambonanza: A Game for Those who Like and Don’t Like Chess
We admire chess. But we don’t like it. You make one bad move at the start and you just sit there, slowly losing for the next half hour. We have our spouse for that. We also have this old blender at home. Sometimes, just for the heck of it, we throw all kinds of stuff…
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No Stone Unturned is a Fun Detective Game
When an indie game about an amnesiac squirrel trying to solve a chicken’s murder pops up, you simply can’t pass up the opportunity to check it out. We aren’t master puzzle solvers. In fact, we usually hate puzzles; they just aren’t our thing. It absolutely destroys our will to play a game when we run…
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KIBORG: A Tough but Fun Sci-Fi Brawler
You know how there are those games with massive worlds, sprawling stories, and deep moral choices? They are fun, but the sheer scope of them can also be very tiring. Sometimes, we just want to jump into something straightforward. KIBORG is exactly that. You wake up in a sci-fi prison and your only real goal…
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GUILD WARS REFORGED is Launching on Mobile this Summer
Well, this was something that we definitely didn’t expect. We’re getting a mobile version of Guild Wars Reforged later this summer. It made us beyond happy, and we didn’t even know we wanted something like this. The game is coming to both Apple and Android phones with a control layout built around touchscreens rather than…
