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A dark, ominous hallway, corpses dangling from the ceiling, and no weapons to defend myself against anything… non-human. Am I still playing the right game? Is this the ultra-violent science fiction shooter called Romeo Is a Dead Man?
Distinguishing Mario sports games from their real-world, licensed competitors — or from Nintendo’s own Wii and Switch Sports series of motion-control games — can be tricky. Nintendo and Camelot Software Planning, which makes most of these games, have a few…
Like the summonable, energy-shooting ghoul I cultivated on my spaceship’s zombie farm, Romeo is a Dead Man is a bit of a grower. After an iffy start that exhibits plenty of Grasshopper Manufacture weirdness but not much Grasshopper Manufacture charm,…
Planet of Lana II, Wishfully’s followup to their tremendous puzzle-platformer original, punched our news mouths with a double hit of announcements last week. First, it’s got a release date of March 5th 2026, a mere three weeks from now, and…
Nadal it’s cracked up to be? Having never been any sort of tennis fan for my entire childhood — Wimbledon always seemed a bit posh to me — I fell completely and utterly in love with the sport in my…
Josef Fares, founder of Hazelight Studios, has revealed that he and his team are at work at yet another video game. This should come as little surprise, given the success of Hazelight’s last game: Split Fiction. Read more
Deadlock has me in an iron grip at the moment, and I owe part of that to my prior experience with Dota 2—see, back when I was a lot less happy (these things might be correlated), I sunk about 2,500…
Sometimes, a game needs time to age before we come to appreciate it—as is the case, Josh Sawyer, studio design director at Obsidian, claims of Fallout: New Vegas. Considered a cult classic, and potentially the best “modern” Fallout game (I…
I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I’ve popped my clogs. Not that there’s anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of accumulated files, but there’s something that feels…