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"At the time, I didn't immediately think my boss was filling the walls of our place of business with corpses," so opens the reveal trailer for Something is Wrong with the Library, the latest game from the studio that is most hard to pin down genre-wise, Strange Scaffold. Though,…
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Has the pre-GTA 6 autumn exhaustion hit you yet? There's already been a lot of games this month, but this train stops for no one, especially with Rockstar's behemoth looming over it all. Today is no different, as after a long wait and several delays, Nivalis Nights is finally…
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While the cover's flown off The Witcher 3 Remastered today, September 29th, the wait for the RPGs elusive extra expansion goes on until next year. I've had rather mixed feelings on the decision to extend Gerry from the River's tale beyond the execellent ending offered by the…
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide continues to cling tightly, perhaps even aggressively, to my Steam installations, my occasionally waning interest repeatedly re-sparked by the addition of akimbo-autopistolling chem fiends or haughty toasterpeople. A live service sucker, it makes me.…
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Transport Fever 3 is a tycoon game specifically about planes, trains, and automobiles. And boats, there’s boats as well. It looks a bit like a city builder, but instead of fussing with zoning for industry and utilities, you’re setting up transport. It’s up to you to help…
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The recent screening of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has proven a thing of existential horror for many grey-haired Zeldenthusiasts. Is that you, Link? What have they done to you, boy? Why do you look like a possessed doll? Where have all your sharp…
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LEGO Skylines is the new plastic city-builder from Cities: Skylines 2 and Surviving the Aftermath developers Iceflake Studios, published by Paradox Interactive. I've played an hour or so of a preview build, just long enough to devise a circular highway of coffee shops,…
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I always like to see games try to do new things to freshen up a genre, so when I saw that Qliphah In Providence’s Shadow had been described as a tactical timeline RPG where counters are important to the fights, my interest was piqued. However, upon playing Qliphah it feels like…
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Today, September 29th, The Witcher 3 is back on the path in Remastered form. With that remaster bringing a host of tweaks to the decade-old RPG, there was always going to be an adjustment period for the RPG's established mods. One that won't work right out of the gate is the WAR…
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Santa Monica Studio has announced that pre-orders for the physical and digital editions of God of War Laufey will be going live on September 29th, revealing the various versions you will be able to get and the associated goodies with them. There have also been details released…
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CD Projekt have released the full list of PC system requirements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, a free upgrade for the base edition of the grizzled and cantankerous fantasy action-RPG. This covers both the previously announced minimum PC specs and the…
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There's been a wave of furry horror games with surprisingly elaborate tactical simulation elements, and when I say "wave", I mean that I'm aware of two. One is Casualties: Unknown, a 2D misericore spelunking experience with an injury system so byzantine it took Oisin multiple…
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The original Minecraft Dungeons was one of gaming’s most surprising success stories. Not because it did well for Mojang – it’s part of one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time, after all – but because it took the world of Minecraft and turned it into a genuinely…
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Early in horror game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, the character you play, Aidan, and his partner Sunny, are pushing the bounds of the sex they enjoy together. Already into BDSM, they discover a puzzle box that, when solved, will allow them to explore a new extreme of…
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DreamEcho is a roguelite beat ‘em up. Sure, it describes itself as a top-down action RPG, but that brings to mind something like Diablo, whereas this game is side-scrolling, more similar to games like Castle Crashers. You also aren’t collecting loot exactly, but abilities and…
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Happy this week all! ...Ugh, you are all still here. When I went on holiday last week, I was hoping that I'd return to find that the whole "videogame journalism career" thing was just a fleeting delusion brought on by excess consumption of unripe pears. Perhaps I've actually…
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Games are such wonderful vessels for storytelling that it’s always exciting to see the different ways developers can approach narrative and character. While some go for lengthy descriptions and others entertaining dialogue, Theropods is the latest to take the ultimate…
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Hearts of Iron 4 developers Paradox Interactive have prohibited the use of Discord profile pictures of historical figures born after 1st January 1800, save for official in-game portraits, amid an uproar caused by a moderator banning somebody for using a photograph of Republic of…
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