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With a name like this, what’s not to like? Just a few things, but for the most part there is some epic-ness to it.
Resident Evil 4 has earned the catalogue releases expected of a game of its stature. Its 2005 debut on GameCube inevitably gave way to an underpowered but more popular PlayStation 2 release later that year. 2007’s trip to the Wii became adored due to the attention devoted to the Wii’s unique controller, while the PC port that same year was adored for nothing because it was terrible. 20...[Read More]
Punk as symbiotic suffix of specific speculative fiction has enjoyed a profound proliferation and patterned progression. There’s something immortally cool about mixing civil dissent and rebellious heroism with the retro or futuristic take on a scientifically gifted and/or deficient society. Cyberpunk begat steampunk and biopunk and, skipping down a few generations, clockpunk and elfpunk. Jaz...[Read More]
Top-down racers. Isometric racers. Games like R.C. Pro-Am. Whatever you prefer to call the nebulous genre of camera-not-quite-behind-the-vehicle racers, it’s easy to agree they’re not particularly well represented in 2014. Other than MotorStorm RC and, to a lesser extent, Death Rally, there aren’t many modern options of the non-mobile garbage variety. Milkstone Studios aims to fi...[Read More]
Rules of Nidhogg? There are no rules. Two men enter, one man leaves to be eaten by a ceremonial dragon.
This is the main advantage of Octodad: Dadliest Catch: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel . . . total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue – severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally . . . you can actually watch yourself behav...[Read More]
A new dark fantasy SRPG set in The Dark Eye universe and the first SRPG from German developer Daedalic, Blackguards promises many hours of combat and multiple story paths, but at what cost?
Well, that was different.
From the makers of NecroVisioN and last year's Painkiller: Hell & Damnation comes a new FPS inspired by Indiana Jones. Deadfall Adventures, while not without a lot of design and technical flaws, still manages to be a pretty entertaining shooter.
All of his co-workers were gone. What could it mean?
Previously released on other platforms, Tate Multimedia have brought their stunt bike racer to PC.