Side scrolling action/exploration games, or Metroidvania-style games, are very popular with a certain subset of gamers. Maybe it’s the non-linearity of the gameplay, or the wildly differing styles these games can have, but people really seem to love them. By…
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We showed off many of the new features in the new 2.50 firmware update for the PlayStation 4, which includes the long overdue Suspend/Resume feature, more trophy improvements, and a slew of new accessibility features.
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The first episode of Life is Strange gave its audience a brief look at the students in the halls of Blackwell Academy, a private art school tucked in the small town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon. As with all elite schools in seemingly…
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When you look at console gaming these days, you see two very different styles of game occupying the same digital shelf space. There are the multimillion dollar productions that need to do multimillion numbers in sales to break even, and…
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Ori and the Blind Forest is a visual masterpiece, but don’t let its lush visuals fool you. It’s quite an action-packed Metroidvania-style adventure that can be unforgiving if you go too easy on it.
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It’s been three years since the release of Mario Party 9, and while that game came with fresh gameplay concepts, it didn’t exactly translate to the same fun that previous games in the series had. Unfortunately, the latest entry in the…
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The Kirby series is one that Nintendo doesn’t seem afraid to play around with. Aside from his usual adventures, Kirby has had his own racing game, a pinball game, and even a TV show. While that last example was probably…
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17 Mar 2015
Today, we take a look at the single-player campaign for Battlefield Hardline to see what Visceral Games, the Dead Space developer, has to offer as its take on the Battlefield formula.
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Today, I took a look at the demo for Adventures of Pip, which is an upcoming action-platformer from Tic Toc Games that will be out in May for the PC/Mac on Steam, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 4. It…
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One of the pleasant surprises to show up at NIS America’s press event in San Francisco a couple weeks ago was their announcement that they’d be localizing Rodea the Sky Soldier, and that it would be coming out on both…
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In celebration of next week’s release of the Resogun Defenders expansion on PS4 next week, Housemarque took the opportunity to add some big new features to Resogun to give their fans a new way to play the game in the…
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We played a bit of Apotheon, which came out last week for the PS4 and PC/Steam. Apotheon is a side-scrolling action game with an incredibly striking art style that is set in Ancient Greece, where the Gods have forsaken your…
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