Video Game Reviews, Articles
Stay is an adventure game that sees you playing on the other side of a instant messenger app to former therapist and recent abductee, Quinn. For the majority of the game, you provide him with moral support and suggestions on…
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Picture the scene: it’s nighttime, the streets are illuminated by cool blue neon lighting from every lamppost and holographic billboard, and you’re behind the wheel of a taxi, patiently waiting for any stranger of the night to slide into the…
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Hey, kiddos! Do you remember the times when it was cool to be edgy? A complete quipping badass, with a mane of hair dyed in some fantasy colour. And of course, all your weapons are called something badass, like Beckoning…
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Staying on the right side of the law is how I’ve lived my whole life. I’ve never really thought about breaking form and so, it comes to games like Save Koch that give me an insight into what it would…
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What is it? Splatoon 2 is a third-person shooter by Nintendo. It is a multiplayer-centric title with team-based battles featuring Inklings and Octolings. They can cover surfaces with ink in their human-form, and can swim in these pools as a…
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Lab Zero is best known for their fantastic crowdfunded fighting-game SkullGirls. Fantastic artwork, crazy combos and its wonderful cast of fighters has made it a very popular pick, especially in fighting tournament. Back in 2015, the team successfully fundraised a…
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Have you ever wanted to see what a future where massive companies can take over part of metropolises and run amok? No? Me either, but in Conglomerate 451, that’s what you get. You run a special agency that has been…
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Many consider the eighties a golden era for arcade games, with titles like Pac-Man and Outrun gobbling up pocket money like crazy. Series like these have received their fair share of reboots and remakes, too. It was in 1982 when…
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As great as the Nintendo Switch is, carrying it around as a handheld comes with some pretty obvious risks, the biggest one being: what if I drop it? Scary thought, indeed. Instead of having to send it off to Nintendo…
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The sequel to the 2017 RPG third-person action-adventure, The Surge, which was in itself the spiritual successor to 2014’s Lords of the Fallen, The Surge 2 continues developer Deck 13’s sci-fi romance with the Soulsborne games. While I’ve flirted with…
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As one trawls through the hundreds of thousands of games that are released on Steam every year, one becomes increasingly aware of the universal adage that is Sturgeon’s Revelation: 90% of everything is rubbish. And indeed, on Steam this revelation…
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Nintendo has always boasted about how great it is to play the Switch as a handheld device outside of the comfort of your home. You know what’s not that great, though? Dropping it on the floor, scratching its screen, or…
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If one was to describe Songbird Symphony, created by Joysteak Studios and published by PQube Limited, the first word to come to mind would be ‘adorable’. The game’s a mix between a simplistic sidescroller and a music rhythm game, featuring…
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Retro-inspired side-scrollers are plentiful, and may as well be over-saturating the market. Games like Shovel Knight & The Messenger are but two stand-out examples of top-notch titles that boasts both great gameplay, pixel-art visuals and chiptune sound design. Aggelos, developed…
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Factfile Developed by: Capcom Published by: Capcom Released: 1988 Format played: Arcade What Is It What a name. Last Duel. It conjures such evocative imagery. What could this game be about? What plot could do justice to the weight of…
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