With little warning and little fanfare, Konami this week released a new picross game for mobile that is both very, very good and very, very free. It’s called Pixel Puzzle Collection, it’s available now on iOS and Android, and it’s a free download with just a few unintrusive, optional ads and …
Living in New Zealand, on a street that doesn’t have fibre yet (but will soon!), I tend to take it as a given that my online experiences with fighting games aren’t going to be great. Depending on the game, the other player, and other little details, playing online ranges from …
September’s been and gone, bringing with it a slew of excellent games. Before looking ahead to an October that’s promising to be even busier, let’s look back at the best games of September 2018. (In the interest of brevity, I’m excluding re-releases from this list, but best believe God Wars: The …
Divinity: Original Sin II is a very good game. I’m not convinced that it’s one of the greatest RPGs of all time, as many have suggested, but it delivers on an ambitious goal remarkably well: to create an open-ended but narratively rich role-playing experience, where there’s myriad paths before you …
At a glance, you could easily mistake Life is Strange 2 for the latest in the tired old trend of zombie apocalypse, “humans are the real walking dead” media. After all, it’s a story of two young brothers desperately trying to survive as they travel across a wasteland, where they …
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was always going to struggle to reach the heights of its predecessors. Rise of the Tomb Raider in particular, in the way it explored the nuances of Lara’s obsessive behaviour and the impact of that on everyone around her, was much smarter than I think …
After five main games and a handful of spin-offs, it’s easy to get complacent with Disgaea‘s quirks and forget how much of an impact the original game had when it first came out in 2003. With the ability to throw characters around the map insane upper limits for every stat …
Inspired by the pulp adventures of the early 20th century, Strange Brigade is a curious thing. It’s one part puzzle-riddle archaeology adventure game and one part co-op focused horde shooter, wrapped up in the campy presentation of a 1930s B-movie serial. That mix of influences could easily collapse in on …
Review by Brad Long NHL is a sport that is not very well known to the vast majority of people in my native Australia. Most fans that I have spoken to were attracted to the hard-hitting sport due the fast-paced arcade games of the ’90s such as the Wayne Gretzky’s …
Penance, the first volume of a rebooted Xena: Warrior Princess, is classic Xena: lots of action and a few good laughs, wrapped around the story of the Warrior Princess’s journey to redemption. Once a violent warlord responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people, Xena travels the land trying to make …
