Tiny Trax captures the simple joy of slot car racing, using virtual reality to push it to new levels of excitement and wonder. If there’s one thing that FuturLab is great at, it’s taking a fairly simple idea and delivering it to perfection. Just look at Coconut Dodge, a game …
In a world that’s still obsessed with the tired, harmful, and inaccurate trope of “crazed lunatics” in its horror stories, The Town of Light is a welcome breath of fresh air. This is ostensibly a horror game, and one set in a mental asylum no less, but there are no …
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the work of FuturLab – after all, Velocity 2X still remains one of my favourite games on Vita. When they announced they were working on Tiny Trax for PlayStation VR game, I naturally got very excited. I’ll have a review of the game published soon, …
Ghost Blade HD goes back to the roots of the bullet hell genre, and what it lacks in originality it makes up for in polish. There’s an impressive amount of innovation in the bullet hell shoot ‘em up space. It’s such a niche genre that developers are always looking for …
Over the years, Koei Tecmo’s Warriors series has made a name for itself as one of the foremost efforts to gamify history. Dynasty Warriors took inspiration from Romance of the Three Kingdoms – one of the most significant pieces of historical literature the world has ever known – and forged …
After somehow never playing the series before, WipEout Omega Collection welcomed me to the rush that is WipEout, and I can see why it’s got such a following. I have to admit, I never played much of the previous WipEout games, aside from the occasional dabbling with the PS1 games …
I’d never really thought about before I heard about Drifting Lands, but RPG and shoot ‘em up are two genres that should go together really well. Take the hectic action of a shmup and layer RPG loot and progression systems on top of that, and you’ve got a fresh new …
There are few games with as rich a world as that of the Trails series. Across a handful of different sub-series, Nihon Falcom built the continent of Zemuria up into one of the most intricate and believable settings ever seen in the medium. Each different sub-series focuses on a different …
Compile Heart is best known for its comedic, fanservice-heavy games like Hyperdimension Neptunia and Omega Quintet, but it’s known to wander down a slighter more serious paths from time to time. Dark Rose Valkyrie the latest attempt to do so, and it might be the studio’s darkest tale yet – …
A couple of months ago, with Stormblood fast approaching, I decided to dive back into Final Fantasy XIV in an effort to catch up and see what I’d been missing out on. Now, I hadn’t played since before version 3.1 – the first major update after Heavensward’s launch – so …
