May 17, 2013

It may be a third person action game with melee combat, cover and guns, but Naughty Dog has ensured that The Last of Us is no lazily-filled Uncharted template. In fact, if Drake’s adventures are a mixture of Tomb Raider and a Donald P. Bellisario reimagining of Indiana Jones, then The Last of Us is a mixture of The Walking Dead and… more of The Walking...

Apr 30, 2013

Writing about Spellirium seems a fitting act, as wordsmithery is the game’s unofficial middle name. This crowdfunded point-and-click PC adventure game from the fellows at Untold Entertainment Inc. is noteworthy not only for its intriguing ideas, but also its immediately available Alpha that we got to check out. We explored the Prologue and First Act, which...

Mar 12, 2013

Payday: The Heist burst onto the gaming scene in the Autumn of 2011, for PS3 and PC. Two years later Overkill are back with the sequel. Will it be a steal? Influenced by Valve’s Left 4 Dead, the first Payday game offered four player co-op missions, set in urban environments. However, instead of shooting zombies, the player was tasked with stealing money,...

Mar 8, 2013

Film director Josef Fares has joined with developers Starbreeze to create a new digital only title, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Imagine the humour and storytelling of Fable mixed with the control scheme of the recent Nintendo Land Animal Crossing mini game (played with only two people) along with a puzzle game such as Lostwinds and Journey and perhaps you...

Sep 11, 2012

At first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking that Tryst is little more than a StarCraft clone; the game takes place in a war between space marines and aliens and has some suspiciously familiar design elements after all. However, digging a little deeper into this RTS from BlueGiant Interactive reveals a game with unique ideas and some potential to stand...

Aug 7, 2012

There are allegedly no “wrong” ways to play Dishonored, but if there were, I would have thoroughly tested a very large percentage of them. This Arkane-developed stealth/action game has a cruel learning curve that tested my creativity and coordination in tandem, but every misstep gave me three new ideas for my next attempt. By the end of the demo level...