Author: Christian Donlan

[ad_1] I get locked out of my house quite a lot. By “I get locked out,” I mean that I contrive to accidentally lock myself out. By “quite a lot”, I probably mean it happens two or three or four times a year. Which is absolutely enough, thanks. (Maybe five times a year.) Anyway, the…

[ad_1] Hello! Over the next few days we hope to be bringing you impressions of a few of the demos in the Steam Next Fest. Oh, this is lovely. Lost in Fantaland is a turned-base tactics roguelite made by a team of just two. It’s wonderfully compact to play. You pick a path through the…

[ad_1] Hello! Over the next few days we hope to be bringing you impressions of a few of the demos in the Steam Next Fest. Neon White is a hyperviolent card-based speedrunner that takes place in a heaven that feels more like hell. Inevitably, it’s a treat. Each brisk level sees you taking down a…

[ad_1] Hello! Over the next few days we hope to be bringing you impressions of a few of the demos in the Steam Next Fest. XCOM’s gift to the world is that brilliant two-action set-up. These tactical games can get dizzyingly complicated, so know from the off: each of your soldiers can do two things…

[ad_1] Big fish, little fish, swimming in the water. Silt is one of those great Robert MacFarlane words. I want to lift it to my ear in a quiet room and close my eyes, so I can hear those sands shifting, tiny rocks brushing one against another. There’s beauty to it – deep time and nature’s…

[ad_1] Nintendo’s just announced an update for the series that started as a Wii pack-in. Nintendo Switch Sports will land on the Switch on the 29th of April. Nintendo Switch Sports sees three classic sports returning – Tennis, Bowling and Chambara. You’ll also be able to play three new games: Soccer (Football), which uses a…

[ad_1] My basic, idiotic take on Mondrian is that he’s one of the hardest artists to see. I don’t mean that you have to climb a lot of stairs or find your way through a maze. I don’t mean that curators like to bombard you with dry ice as you approach. I mean that, once…

[ad_1] Logfolk Graveyard is where it happened. There should be a plaque really. In a game where time can become a bright fizzing blur, I somehow remember the exact moment. I had been zooming through OlliOlli World until that point – always cheery, sometimes doing well, sometimes just scraping it. But then Logfolk Graveyard came…

[ad_1] Would you like to swing on a star? I don’t know if you’ve seen Hudson Hawk. Not many people have. And those that have are probably drawn to it because they’ve heard that it’s terrible. Not so. Or at least, that’s not the whole story. The truth is that Hudson Hawk belongs to the most…

[ad_1] A tweet from last week asked developers: “What’s in your game graveyard? Games that were cancelled or no one can play anymore?” What followed was a wonderful, melancholic list of delights we will never get to play again, or never had the chance to play at all. Battleborn came up, and a Disney Infinity…