Author: Robert Purchese

[ad_1] The new game from Flavourworks, the studio that brought us FMV-style game Erica, arrives today, and it’s called Hush – Crane and is available free from Google Play and the App Store. Hush – Crane is pretty short, around 20 minutes or so, and is very similar in many ways to Erica – a…

[ad_1] You’d better sit down before I tell you this: in Overwatch 2, Bastion no longer stays still while turreted. Yes, the infamous party-wiping mounted chaingun of a character can now move around while in turret form. Bastion is completely transformed – and is not the only one. I’m playing the Overwatch 2 closed alpha…

[ad_1] A publisher perspective: we haven’t had one of those before, and it’s an area of pivotal importance in games people often have misconceptions about. How does it all work, from spotting a game to signing it, to marshalling it out of the door? And whose side are publishers on? My guest today…

[ad_1] I don’t need to tell you Fez is a great game because you know that. Everyone told you that in 2012. We named it Game of the Year, then called a Game of the Decade seven years later. It’s one of the indie icons, a mandatory mention whenever you’re talking about them. But it’s…

[ad_1] An official-looking teaser video showing what new Overwatch 2 character Sojourn can do has leaked onto the internet. The Chinese-language video originated on YouTube before being shared by popular Overwatch personality (coach and streamer) Stylosa. In it, we get a HUD-less montage showing what Sojourn – Overwatch’s first black female character – can do.…

[ad_1] Yesterday, I published a piece looking back at 10 years of Fez, and while writing it, I couldn’t help but wonder what the game’s creator, Phil Fish, was up to now. Just to recap: Fish left the games industry not long after Fez’s release, cancelling Fez 2 in the process. He then partially re-emerged…

[ad_1] The game getting a lot of buzz at the WASD game show in London this past weekend was Card Shark, by Nerial and Devolver. And having spent a bit of time with it, it’s easy to see why. It’s gorgeous, charming, and different. Card Shark is a game about learning card tricks, or cons,…

[ad_1] Hypnospace Outlaw is getting a sequel. Well, a spiritual sequel called Dreamsettler. But it’s almost exactly the same thing: a detective game set in an old version of the internet, which you’ll trawl to uncover a mystery. And there’s more: another new game called Slayer X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer. It’s more…

[ad_1] Did you know he was nearly a professional footballer? If it hadn’t been for a shoulder injury when he was a teenager, we might well have seen him on TV playing for a top club. He had try-outs at a few of them. He might even have been England’s goalkeeper – who knows?! I…

[ad_1] It’s all going on for Greg Buchanan. His still-warm thriller novel Sixteen Horses looks destined to become one of the books of the year, having filled window displays at Waterstones stores around the UK for the paperback launch in February. I’ve read it and it’s brilliant: dark, disturbing, fearsomely intelligent and utterly compelling. I…