I’ll state right upfront that I’ve never played a Heroes of Might and Magic. Maybe that’s blasphemous, but such is life—you can’t play anything, and HOMM is one of those things that passed me by. A bring this up because, if you’re hoping for a review that’ll dive deep into …
Since February this year, Apple Arcade subscribers have had the joy of Studio Drydock’s cozy magical farming sim Wylde Flowers. Life sim fans outside the iOS ecosystem might have looked on with envy, but the good news for them is that Fairhaven will soon be opening its gates much wider, …
Another week, another wave of announcements, teases, leaks, and other such things to look forward to! Here are some of the game news highlights from this week. Ron Gilbert is working on a new Monkey Island Thirty years after leaving LucasArts, Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert is back for another …
I always get a little… suspicious when non-Japanese (and Western, especially) developers claim to be trying to capture the spirit of Akira Kurosawa in their work. Too often, what that means is a generically Japanese-looking thing with a grainy black-and-white filter slapped over the top, maybe with some shakuhachi in …
Mini Motorways is all about the pursuit of the sublime. The gradual, iterative growth of a city’s transport infrastructure, to create something that aims for perfection or falls apart in trying. Of course, there’s no real perfection to reach. Mini Motorways is a score based arcade-puzzler, like Tetris, where the …
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from my time with the early access for GolfTopia, it’s this: designing a golf course is easy, but designing a good golf course is hard. Building a course that people actually want to play, that’s challenging without being too hard, while also retaining whatever …
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Today Koei Tecmo released a new Dynasty Warriors 9 trial, as well as the above video showing what this trial includes. As the publisher outlined in a press release: DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Trial enables fans to choose up to three characters from the roster of 90 total playable characters in a small …
A new video for the upcoming tactical stealth game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden outlines how players will approach combat, exploration, and intel-gathering, with a key focus on planning. As described by publisher Funcom: “[Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden] promises a new and exciting take on the XCOM tactical combat …
There’s a lot to like about Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds. It comes out swinging with a full-motion video opening that’s both intense and charmingly retro. From there, you’re thrust into a gorgeous world of hand-painted, pre-rendered backgrounds, anime-style character designs, mystical prophecies, and strange monsters. For a game …
The Western debut of Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection is one of the most delightful surprises of the year. It’s a localisation of Zwei II, one of Nihon Falcom’s lesser-known titles and a game that, having originally released in Japan in 2008, is almost a decade old. I can’t imagine there …
