With Hitman 3, IO Interactive’s “World of Assassination” trilogy comes to a close. The whole series started out being released as individual episodes, and though its since moved to a more typical “full game” release cycle, it still maintains an episodic approach to storytelling that gives it the feeling of …
Destruction AllStars is built around a neat idea: what if we took the hero shooter concept and swapped out the “shooter” part for “vehicular destruction in the vein of Destruction Derby?”. It’s a solid idea that seems like a shoo-in for some hectic, exciting multiplayer mayhem. When all the stars …
Fans of old-school run-and-gun shooters will want to keep an eye out for Turrican Flashback. Coming to Switch and PlayStation 4 on January 29th with both digital and physical releases, the collection brings together four classics: the Amiga versions of Turrican and Turrican II: The Final Fight, Mega Turrican for …
Kill a Man is raw, violent, powerful. Steve Orlando, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Al Morgan, and Jim Campbell’s story of a gay MMA fighter who gets outed and sets himself down a path for revenge is an unflinching exploration of homophobia in the sports world, of the challenges of coming out, …
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 …
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is, more than any other Legend of Zelda game I’ve played, a game that puts Zelda herself at the front and centre. Link is ostensibly the player-insert protagonist—though with multiple playable characters, you could easily sit Link on the bench for most of the game …
I loved the original Hyrule Warriors a whole heap, in part because I just like Warriors games in general, but mostly because it felt like a celebration of the history of The Legend of Zelda. An admittedly contrived plot paved the way for a whole host of fan-favourite characters to …
In my first few hours with it, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin felt like it was shaping up to be something truly special. A couple of dozen hours later, and it’s one of my favourite games of the year. Here’s why. Sakuna is about as spoilt as any goddess can …
“Sangre” is a fitting title for the sixth volume of Joe Benitez’s Lady Mechanika, and not just because there’s plenty of blood and bloodshed to be seen across its pages. This is a story about the blood that ties families together, for better and worse—about the lengths a mother will …
I’ve been eagerly looking forward to Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin for what feels like forever. The concept of an action platformer / farming sim hybrid based on Japanese mythology was enough to get my attention when it was first announced back in 2017, but the way developers Edelweiss have …
