Tag: games

Assassin’s Creed 3’s greatest feature was pushed to the side until Black Flag because Ubisoft was worried that ‘the tech wouldn’t work’

Assassin’s Creed 3’s greatest…

In hindsight, Assassin’s Creed 3 is both fascinating and fundamental to the later development of the series. At the…
Ark: Survival Ascended celebrates 10 years of dino-dodging with a visual upgrade and letting you run around in your birthday suit

Ark: Survival Ascended celebrates…

Ark: Survival Evolved is 10 years old this month, a fact that makes me feel like a dinosaur. Studio…
Rust’s recently added rainforest is so dense the developers changed how resources spawn because players couldn’t find them: ‘The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle’

Rust’s recently added rainforest…

Atavistic survival sim Rust recently added a whole new area to get brutally murdered in while running around naked—a…
Bloober Team’s upcoming horror game Cronos: The New Dawn just got even harder to survive as the ‘body-horror monstrosities’ can work together

Bloober Team’s upcoming horror…

We just got another look at Bloober Team’s upcoming horror game Cronos: The New Dawn during the Xbox Games…
Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy’s slapstick walking simulator about a slob climbing a mountain, stumbles onto Steam in September

Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy’s…

I’ve generally avoided Bennet Foddy’s games, given they are essentially purpose-built frustration generators. But there’s something that intrigues me…
Here’s an alchemy shop-sim that is also a mech-builder deckbuilder

Here’s an alchemy shop-sim…

In the southern hemisphere the Summer Game Fest is a winter event. The Frosty Game Fest exists as a…
I can already tell that this co-op firefighting game is going to lead to some hilarious highlight clips

I can already tell…

Firefighting is cool, and dangerous, and there’s lots of neat gear, plus you get to saw holes in houses,…
Innkeep lets you play an extremely suspect fantasy innkeeper, though I’m sure the bloodstains on your apron can be easily explained

Innkeep lets you play…

The classic life sim begins with you inheriting property—a farm or a shop that you take over in a…
Amazon may have cancelled the Wheel of Time show, but the open world RPG ploughs ahead with talent from games like Dark Age of Camelot and Lord of the Rings Online

Amazon may have cancelled…

I was disappointed by Amazon’s decision to cancel its TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan’s long,…

Total Chaos, the survival…

When I played Total Chaos at the end of the last year, my main takeaway was, ‘This is scary,…