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Blinded by the lovely, colorful pixelated world of Orsterra, I severely underestimated how utterly brutal Octopath Traveler 0 would be. And when I say “brutal,” I don’t mean the bazillion innocent NPCs who get slaughtered in horrible ways throughout the…
Hello reader who is also a reader! Today marks the sad and glorious return of Booked for the Week, our reliably irregular Sunday column in which games people talk about books. It’s sad because the original creator of this column,…
World War 1 survival horror Conscript was one of the bigger surprises of last year, with its unvarnished depiction of a French soldier’s journey through the battle of Verdun thoroughly impressing reviewer Alexander Chatziioannou. “Every aspect of the game feels…
Generational drama. They say history repeats itself, and right now I’m living through a redux of my own childhood gaming obsession. To understand my plight, we need to rewind to 1988. I had cut my gaming teeth on a dusty…
The general consensus on Batman Forever has come a long way since Joel Schumacher gave the Caped Crusader latex nipples in 1995. At the time, the film and its 1997 follow-up were viewed as a campy bastardization of the franchise…
Today’s advent calendar hails, in both setting and make, from the RPS homeland of the United Kingdom. Which means, like most of RPS, it’ll probably spend Christmas predominantly unconscious, driven into a coma by a combination of tiredness, pigs in…
The recent history of real-time strategy has been more dark age than golden era, but there have been a few bright spots over the last decade. One of those is Northgard, a Viking-themed RTS that was released in 2018. Built…
Analysis of the makeup of the jury for The Game Awards — which comprises specialist gaming outlets, mainstream media organs, and influencers from around the world — reveals a voting body that is continuing the steady growth and internationalization that…
Sundays are for realising that he’s coming. That he’s inevitable. That, in a way, he’s already here. You feel him in the back of your mind. Grinding his teeth. Picking his nose. Raking his nails across the palms of his…
Ding ding ding! It has been a particularly Metroid-packed week, and we’re keeping that Morph Ball rolling in the latest edition of Box Art Brawl. Before we do that, however, let’s recap what happened last time. Celebrating the arrival of…