Author: Robert Purchese

[ad_1] When Hitman 3 recently changed its name to Hitman World of Asassination, I had no idea how meaningful the moment was. On the outside it looked like a simple thing: Hitman 3 would now be known by this name and include levels from Hitman 2 and 3 – the trilogy would all be in…

[ad_1] I’ve had a presentation for a promising new sandbox MMO called Pax Dei. It looks like an Arthurian fairytale. I saw characters in flowing dresses in a sun-dappled wood working together to build picturesque hamlets or settlements. They placed down floors and walls in a blueprint-style way, as in other building games,…

[ad_1] Question: What’s the longest you’ve played PowerWash Simulator for in one sitting? Is it a) a morning, b) an afternoon, or c) several hours because you had nothing to do that day? If the answer is any of the above, well done, but you’ve got nothing on Ellie Gibson. She’s about to attempt to…

[ad_1] I got very excited about Terra Nil when I played a demo in summer 2021. Here was a game from BroForce developer Free Lives about repairing the world. A calm and gentle game about regrowing wastelands and then packing up and getting out of there, and leaving no trace. A kind of reverse city-builder,…

[ad_1] Games don’t really do demos in the way they used to, do they? I wonder if early access has something to do with it – I suppose it must do. But whatever it is, we miss them, and the barrage of demos released for Steam Next Fest has made us feel all nostalgic for…

[ad_1] There’s a dilemma to remaking a 30-year-old game, and it’s how much do you remake. If you build it completely anew and reimagine everything, then how much of the original game do you still actually have? Then again, if you don’t change enough, how much of a remake is it? System Shock (remake) Developer:…

[ad_1] It seems like whenever there’s a brand new medieval multiplayer game on Steam, it surges on popularity. And the Dark and Darker demo is currently doing exactly that. Dark and Darker Developer / Publisher: Ironmance Platform: Played on PC Availability: Demo in Steam Next Fest now. “Coming soon” otherwise The hook is that it’s…

[ad_1] It’s astonishing how, eight years on and now freshly added to Game Pass, Darkest Dungeon still manages to feel unlike anything else. Blown up on my telly, this could easily be something new. That horror-movie voice over still shakes my bones, that paper-drawn art still oozes style. But it’s not that which really stands…

[ad_1] Inkbound totally gets it. It understands what makes a Roguelike really compelling and exciting. This is the new game from Monster Train developer Shiny Shoe, so perhaps that’s no surprise – because if any game can claim to have taken the Slay the Spire formula and made something memorable out of it, something of…