Introduction The classic Among Us gameplay may have been enough to take the world by storm in 2018, but these days, it’s far more than the sum of its parts. You’ll find that while the base game doesn’t ever get boring, per se, you’ll naturally pine for something new having played the same mode across …
Undertale’s story can be completed in roughly six to eight hours, but what is arguably the full experience takes a lot longer than that at upwards of twenty hours. This is a game where a great deal of time and effort has been put into pushing players to achieve multiple endings, and each run is short …
The simulation game genre is one of the oldest in the industry, and it’s expanded massively since its beginnings as a PC-centric style. We’re now seeing more simulation games on consoles, and there’s also a great deal of nuance and originality in how the classic formula is utilized in modern titles. This ingenuity has been …
“New York is a sucked orange”. That was philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s indictment, anyway: the city as a depraved cesspit bled dry of any value. It’s the antithesis of the old metaphor insinuating a limitless bounty of opportunity: the Big Apple. Or perhaps those two analogies are more interwoven than they first seem. In the …
The Rogue-like genre has hotly become one of the most popular genres of any. Games like Hades and Spelunky have taken the industry by storm, and the recent boom in high-quality indie development of the last decade has produced a ton of incredible titles beyond the big names. From the aesthetically basic yet surprisingly deep …
We’ve seen a pretty big shake-up in the first-person shooter realm within the last few years — the biggest changes seen in a long time. After over a decade of beige-colored military shooters following in the footsteps of 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the term ‘Boomer Shooter’ has now been coined to represent …
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Introduction Rocket League took the industry by storm when it launched in 2015, and its popularity shows no signs of waning. I’d argue that a large part of the game’s success is due to its initial focus on cross-platform play or ‘cross-play’. Rocket League boasts a wide range of supported platforms, and you can play …
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants To me, strategy is one of the most absorbing video game genres, and it’s also one of the oldest. How do developers even begin to implement the intricacies and complexities of strategic warfare? And in a genre dominated by a handful of key players, what does it take to …
The strategy genre has always been one of the broadest and most varied video game styles, and it’s one of the oldest, too. Whether I was undertaking epic space battles with StarCraft or obtaining governmental supremacy in Civilization, I have many fond memories of spending the weekend glued to a CRT monitor in the early …
To be wholly unique in any artistic medium is a rare thing, yet Skabma — Snowfall manages to tell an intriguing, thought-provoking narrative about a world and culture we’ve never seen explored in a video game. Let’s begin our Skabma PC review by looking at the story and world of the Skabma.. Bright and Beautiful …
