A concept beloved of H.P. Lovecraft – one of the games industry’s most enduring influences – is impossible geometry. His tales of cosmic entities meddling in human affairs are strewn with rooms, temples and cities that unnerve not (just) [...]
Rabbid Peach is the game character of the century. One of Ubisoft’s madcap, bug-eyed mascots dressed in Princess Peach cosplay, she fuses the anarchic irreverence of the former with the queenly preening of the latter in a squat, sassy bundle of diva [...]
To have even the slightest chance of survival in this viciously competitive shooter world, your game needs to have that moment. That almost indefinable feeling that suddenly elevates it above all the mechanically sound, competent first-person shooters out [...]
Years in development, the new Radeon RX Vega line is finally arriving – AMD’s return to the higher-end of GPU performance after concentrating its efforts more on the mainstream and budget sectors of the market. There’s no shortage of [...]
There’s an area in Sonic 2’s Chemical Plant Zone that still has me clutching my chest when I think of it. Tucked towards the end of the second act is a shaft filled with moving blocks, sliding around in clumps of four to create a precarious [...]
The original Nidhogg was a great example of minimalist elegance. Messhof’s two-player competitive fencing game shaved the one vs one fighting game to its core with only two buttons (jump and attack) and a single game mode wherein each player ran [...]
Two Yakuza games within eight months? Maybe 2017 isn’t so bad after all. Kiwami isn’t a new game, however, but a remake – a sweeping visual overhaul of the 2005 original, with a number of systemic and narrative tweaks besides, bringing [...]
Few sports labour under as much socio-political baggage as golf. It is a game popularised by royalty, spread by Empire, and moderated by prejudice (exhibit 1/59,674: Lord Moncrieff who, in 1902 decreed that women should only be allowed to play providing [...]
