PAX East 2017: Loot Rascals is a Turn-Based Saturday Morning Cartoon [Preview]
Loot Rascals, the new turn-based rogue-like from Hollow Ponds, walks that wonderful line between evoking what you love and know while also forging a path all its own. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: My Memory of Us is a Sad Fairy Tale About Friendship During...
If you stumbled upon My Memory of Us at IMGN.PRO’s booth on the PAX East show floor, you’d think it was rather innocuous. Look a little deeper, however, and you’ll see the real story of children coping...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: The Cyberpunk Arcade Racer Makes a Strong Showing with...
Distance's marriage of cyberpunk horror and arcade-style madness may make it the most creative racing game I’ve played since Grand Theft Auto V’s Cunning Stunts expansion. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Ogre Head Studios and Nyamakop Bring International Style to...
It's refreshing to make it to the smaller booths and see what developers outside of the US think of PAX East, and how their backgrounds affect the ways they approach game design. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Infiltrate a Creepy Cult in Stealth-Action Indie The Church in...
Partially inspired by the infamous Jonestown cult, The Church in the Darkness has you seeking a nephew swept up in a South American cult's machinations. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Perception Proves Haunted Houses are Scarier When You're Blind...
Perception takes narrative horror even further by throwing in a blind protagonist, whose only means of “seeing” is making noise to use echolocation—which is everything you’ve been taught not to do in...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Adult Swim's ToeJam & Earl Serves Up a Jammin' Slice of...
With original designer Greg Johnson at the helm, Back in the Groove plays like a love letter to the 1991 release. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East: Wolfenstein: The New Order Isn't All That New
Wolfenstein: The New Order is definitely a bright and shiny new package, but it very much feels like more of the same. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East: How Devolver Digital Stole My Heart
Like many other quality titles in the confines of the Indie Mega Booth, Devolver let the games speak for themselves. And what a statement they made. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East: Learning to Evolve into a Real Monster
When Turtle Rock Studios announced it was working on a new cooperative game, that was literally all the information I needed to know. Continue reading…
View ArticleBlizzard Showing New Hearthstone, Overwatch Content at PAX East
It seems that Blizzard will be keeping up with its announcement schedule at PAX East this year with a first day panel that won't disappoint. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: Final Fantasy XV is Back in Black
With Final Fantasy XV, which began its life as Final Fantasy Versus XIII back in 2006, Square Enix is really pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a Final Fantasy game. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: Non-Conformity is Deadly in We Happy Few
The dangers of peer pressure have never been more real than in Compulsion Games' We Happy Few. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 15: Consequence and Redemption in Adr1ft
The first game from Three Zero One studios, headed up by Adam Orth and Omar Aziz, puts players in a unique predicament. As (presumably) the only survivor of a terrible accident on a space station,...
View ArticlePAX East 15: Alienware Gets Steamy
Let’s just get it out of the way: the Steam controller looks weird. It’s got a concave design, a circular touchpad on the right, a clicky round touchpad with some semblance of directional buttons on...
View ArticlePAX East 15: Slicing, Dicing and Styling in Drinkbox's Severed
It's unfair to call Severed a departure for the studio, since all three of its games thus far have been rather diverse, but Severed definitely feels different. That's probably because it relies almost...
View ArticlePAX East 15: Failing Miserably at Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
There are few things in life truer than death, taxes, and my inability to be a competent co-pilot. I take too many risks, don't really pay attention to what my partner is up to, and I'm easily...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is More Than Just a Shiny Coat of Paint...
Nintendo’s latest console, the Switch, is off to a promising start, and next month Mario Kart 8 will get a rebirth of sorts, this time in Deluxe form. Continue reading…
View ArticlePAX East 2017: The American Dream's Take on Gun Culture is a Hilariously Dark...
The American Dream presents a 1950s world where “all of your everyday needs are solved with guns.” It’s a cleaned-up sitcom version of a decade plagued by civil rights unrest and communism hysteria,...
View ArticlePAX East 2017: Snake Pass is The First Great Herpetological Platformer [Preview]
When I think of kicking back and relaxing, snakes would not be the first thing that come to mind. But putting the team behind LittleBigPlanet 3 in charge of a slithery puzzle-platformer may give it...
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