I’m not sure how to feel about this trend of porting mobile games to home consoles. I love mobile games, don’t get me wrong—this isn’t some sort of tired “mobile games aren’t real games” nonsense—but mobile is a very different environment with very different strengths. Most phone games tend to …
A lot of games draw on fairy tales. Whether transplanting familiar characters into new settings or simply drawing on the tone and themes of those childhood folktales, it’s not unusual to see such stories reflected in video games, often to great effect. The Witch and Hundred Knight 2 is similarly …
ARK Park is not the sort of spinoff I would have expected from ARK: Survival Evolved. The original game was a survival game, with a focus on scavenging resources and doing whatever you can to not die on an island overrun with dinosaurs. ARK Park, meanwhile, is a virtual reality …
After an unsuccessful Fig campaign last year, director Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro and his studio White Owls are once again seeking crowdfunding support for his new project, The Good Life—this time through Kickstarter. At more than a third of the USD $638,000 goal already raised, things are looking better than they …
You can always count on Kirby games to be innovative, even within the relatively narrow confines of a 2D platformer. Every game since the first had brought creative new ideas into the fold, going beyond simple sequels to make each game feel like its own unique thing. Kirby Star …
The End of the F***ing World starts off by putting some facts down for us, from the two teenage protagonist’s perspective. James (Alex Lawther) is a psychopath, he’s sure of it. He’s stuck his hand in a fryer full of boiling oil just to feel something. He’s killed animals by …
Earlier today, Square Enix announced a new Final Fantasy XIV companion app: Final Fantasy XIV Online GO, where the “GO” stands for “Gathering Outdoors”. Following the hype of Pokemon GO and other GPS-enabled games that followed, FFXIV GO would let players gather crafting materials from nodes in the real world. Reading the press release that came into …
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” – Leo “the lip” Durocher I used to lump baseball in with cricket as a slow, ponderous game that took too long and was boring to watch. I was a fool. Every at-bat is filled with tension. Every inning could be a …
Capitalism is cruel and unforgiving. It follows, then, that a game that, oddly enough, exists as both a parody and a celebration of capitalism should also be cruel and unforgiving. For better or worse, that’s exactly what Penny-Punching Princess is. At first glance, this looks like a fairly typical 2D …
The original Ni no Kuni was always going to be a beautiful game, both visually and tonally—it was, after all, made in collaboration with Studio Ghibli. That partnership ended before Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom came along, though, and I know a lot of people, myself included, were concerned …
