I don’t think there’s any video game genre quite as timeless as the platformer. They’ve been around for more than 30 years, and the basic ideas have been iterated on heavily in that time, but a simple, well-made, classically-styled platformer is still a wonderful thing. …Wait. This is sounding eerily …
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Two of the best visual novels available are coming to PlayStation 4, with NIS America’s announcement of Danganronpa 1•2 Reload. The bundle brings together Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, which have previously only been available for PS Vita and PC, and will hopefully introduce this fantastic series to a whole new audience. …
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the best LEGO game to date. Aside from using the best Star Wars film (yes, I went there) as its source material, it’s managed to breath new life into the LEGO game formula. The combination of action, adventure, LEGO-based puzzles, and oodles of …
[URIS id=664] Gallery: The beautiful papercraft world of Tearaway Unfolded Depending on where you live, Tearaway Unfolded is either already available, or will be very soon. It’s a very good, very beautiful game from Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and the original Tearaway for PS Vita. Between the PS4 screenshot function and the in-game …
On paper, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture should be a game that’s exactly up my alley. I like exploration games, I like experimental games, I like games with a strong focus on narrative and worldbuilding. Rapture is all of these things, and yet I found it frustrating and, ultimately, unrewarding. The main …
After starting a semi-regular feature about comics I’m reading last week in Now Reading, doing something similar for my other go-to pastime – video games – was probably inevitable. Introducing… Now Playing, a quick look at some of the games I’ve been playing lately. Most of my free time over …
If there’s a formula for collector’s editions of games, it’s this: Steelbook case Season Pass Statue/Figurine Poster Art Book ???? Profit Almost every CE that comes out checks most, if not all, of those boxes, and rarely is there anything else on offer. Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris Gold Edition …
Last week, I managed to score Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Gold Edition in a Mighty Ape sale for $20! It’s pretty standard as far as collector’s editions go – a statue, an artbook, a map/poster, the game’s season pass, and the game itself. The adorable (and, unexpectedly, …