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Nexomon
In 1996, a lot of parents up and down the country said that those pocket monster games were ‘just a fad’ and will go away like POGs, Tamagotchi, and the strange grow-your-own alien things. Twenty-five years later and this fad has not only evolved into a culture, it is going from strength to strength, becoming…
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Broken Age
Drew has pledged to clear his backlog of games he’s bought and never played – starting with indie smash hit, Broken Age
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The Lightbringer
Puzzle-Platformers have been a staple genre of video-games since the first cartridges crawled out of the primordial ooze, and Rock Square Thunder’s 2021 offering, The Lightbringer, seems on the surface to be a solid example of the genre. Playing through its relatively short run time, however, left me distinctly aware of the evolution and innovation…
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Not content with blowing the roof off the internet by announcing a remake of one of the most beloved Star Wars games of all time, Jedi aficionados Aspyr followed up that news by releasing a port of the original Knights of the Old Republic on Nintendo Switch as well! As a game I’d heard so…
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Clockwork Aquario
Thirty-five years ago people left the comfort of their house and headed to a place filled with hulking machines that each had one video game loaded into them. Known as ‘arcades’, people would drop 20p into a waiting slot and the game would spring to life. One of the producers of these arcade games was…
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Bustafellows
In all my years of playing video games, I never thought I’d be pulled into the genre of visual novels. Perhaps it was my own prejudice against games where there’s a lot of reading and not a lot else; I prefer games where I control a character and make them dance like the polygon puppets…
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A Juggler’s Tale
Blue Fairy: Yes Pinocchio, I’ve given you life. Pinocchio: Why? I don’t want to go visiting the intentions of why indie devs make “Small Child Scary World” games. Now, I’m not saying that indie devs are suppressing some sort of contempt for children. And I’m certainly not speculating that many of them are recent parents,…
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Cyberpunk 2077
In 2012, I had already hung up my bag of ridiculous-sided dice and retired my character sheets back into the draw of stuff, but from the moment CD Projekt Red announced Cyberpunk 2077 was in development, I knew I was going to own it. Based on Mike Pondsmith’s popular tabletop role playing game Cyberpunk 2020,…
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6Souls
If you really want to make it as an adventurer then you need to have a few things: bravery and curiosity come top of the list, then a sharp wit, and then ideally a snappy catchphrase and a signature look. That said, if you want to hit the absolute top-tier of adventurer herodom then you…
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AWAY: The Survival Series
It seems like a story pops up on social media every few days that details another person expressing their love of videogames who doesn’t fit the tired stereotype of “basement-dwelling teenager who rarely sees the outside world”. And with game design tools being more accessible than ever before, developers are finding ever more interesting ways…
