Author: Christian Donlan

[ad_1] Gah, really. EA has reportedly cancelled a single-player game set in the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe. Bloomberg broke the news and it settled on the office here like a chilly winter fog. Everybody shivered and felt a bit grimmer about things. Thoughts, firstly and most importantly, to all concerned. Even outside of…

[ad_1] Like Gatsby, I guess I know the power of the green light. Out on the dock, down in the dungeon – the light! The light! I reach for it. I can’t wait. It’s not love. It’s better than love. It’s – wait! It’s only the chance to split my fireballs into three and…

[ad_1] The Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection is a lovely thing, I think, but a lovely thing that arrives in a fairly ugly situation. This new collection of Wonder Boy games comes out just half a year after the last one. That one had four games, and this one has six – although when you…

[ad_1] A friend once said that the best way to have fun in an open-world game – the best way to see if an open-world game was likely to be fun in the first place – was to pick the first story marker and run in the absolute opposite direction as fast as possible. …

[ad_1] Warning: This piece contains discussions of mortality. To play the current build of Birth, I go to my desktop and click on a small icon showing a picture of a tooth. This is important: it’s a whole tooth, with the parts seen and the parts that, traditionally, go unseen, since they exist beyond…

[ad_1] Why has nobody done this before? The moment I type this I start to suspect that maybe they have. Wasn’t there an early card-based entry in the Apple Arcade line-up that did something similar? Wasn’t there a… Bardcard Publisher: Rascal Magic Developer: Rascal Magic Platform: Played on iOS Availability: Out now on…

[ad_1] I’ll be honest: when I heard the new SteamWorld game was a sort of city builder, I was a little bit disappointed. I love this series, and I wanted more of the core SteamWorld games. I wanted to venture out and dig deep into the ground, uncovering mysteries and earning upgrades. …

[ad_1] Don’t ask how long Sail Forth lasts. Don’t check out its average playtime. Just give yourself to it, ten minutes here and there, and let it become a watery companion through your days and nights, the sun-baked memories of it lapping at your dreams and waking thoughts. Sail Forth Publisher: The Quantum Astrophysicists…

[ad_1] Games are good at moments of reflection – a very specific kind of reflection anyway. You might call it the “Well, That Didn’t Work” Moment. In games we get do-overs, so when an approach isn’t working, you get to rethink it. Rather than in real life, say, where I just try the same…

[ad_1] Brisk, stylish and compulsive, this is everything an arcade game should be. Do you like fonts? If you like fonts, you must play Swordship. (After Pentiment.) Swordship gets fonts. It loves fonts. And it’s not just the fonts themselves, but what the game does with them. Finish a level and “LINE CLEAR” is…