Gaku Kuze’s Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, Volume 1 is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. The cynical perspective of a 30-something whose life didn’t turn out how they thought it would is already a topic rife with potential for black comedy, but run through …
Another year, another iteration of The Game Awards, and with it, a whole lot of new trailers and announcements (and also awards, but they seem to take a back seat, despite the show’s name). There was plenty of stuff to see in the three-and-a-half-hour show, from new game reveals to …
As a general rule, I don’t care a whole lot about photorealism in videogames. For me, compelling art direction is always going to trump realism, and where a lot of people look to a new console generation to make games more lifelike than ever, but I’m far more interested in …
Sephiroth, the famed villain of Final Fantasy VII whose theme song “One-Winged Angel” taught a whole generation of nerds to learn at least a few words of Latin, will soon be joining the eclectic roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. An announcement at The Game Awards yesterday confirmed Sephiroth as …
Taiko no Tatsujin may be best known for its arcade-style rhythm game action, but it’s also a series with a long history of RPG-style story modes, at least in its console releases. Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Great Adventure of the Seven Islands! established a RPG-rhythm mash-up formula that’s been …
There are few historical figures who’ve had such widespread and varied fictional appearances as Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kōjiro. These famed samurai have inspired everything from period-appropriate fighting game characters to sci-fi RPGs, from an Iron Maiden song to Pokemon‘s Jessie and James. Orient, by Shinobu Ohtaka (Magi: The Labyrinth …
Work is underway on a PC version of El Shaddai: Ascension of Metatron, a cult favourite action-adventure game that first came out in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011. The game’s director, Sawaki Takeyasu, revealed a Steam port in a status update tweet a couple of days ago. Via …
I’m still struggling to wrap my head around the fact that The Falconeer was built almost entirely by one person. Tomas Sala, best known for the “Moonpath to Elsweyr” mod series for Skyrim, has poured his heart, soul, and years of his time into The Falconeer, and it shows. This …
A new Drawn to Life game has just launched, more than a decade since the series last entry in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. Developed by Digital Continue (the folks behind Next Up Hero, among other games) and published by 505 Games, Drawn to Life: Two Realms is now …
“Shoot-’em-up mixed with a match-four puzzle game” isn’t a concept I never would have expected to hear before Galacide came along. I can’t think of two genres that, at least on the surface, are further removed from one another, but as it turns out, this is a mash-up that can …
