It’s possible that our hands-on with two stages of Fox McCloud’s return didn’t manage to capture the moment when it all clicks into place. All we know is that the time we spent playing it was some of the most frustrating we’ve encountered with a...
The big takeaway from playing Fallout Shelter should probably be that you can slap this theme onto just about anything and it immediately becomes 50 per cent more fun. If this is the beginning of Bethesda spreading this IP around a little more, then we’re...
I remember playing Mario Paint for the SNES as a kid and being thoroughly engrossed in the primitive concepts of filling pre-determined photographs with blocks of colour. The game still stands as one of my most remembered titles as a child and I still have...
If you’re a fan of Final Fantasy Tactics, then this is probably the closest you’ll get to a true successor. It might not be developed by Square Enix but you can immediately feel the heritage when booting up the game. Everything from the graphics to...
What do the creators of evening-length games think about Valve’s new refunds policy? Valve can resemble an absent-minded wizard in an ivory tower, unleashing dramatic changes to Steam without warning, but you can’t say it doesn’t listen. Valve binned the practice of paying for Steam Workshop...
Movie games have a bad name among older gamers. The disasters of the past – such as the infamous Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties – gave the false impression of choice, with horrible linear narratives, lo-res video and cheap production values. Her Story is an entirely...
There have been plenty of films set inside the movie industry, such as The Player or Barton Fink. There have been plenty of songs about the music industry, like Belle & Sebastian’s “Seymour Stein” or The Sex Pistols’ “EMI”. But games is a field that’s...
Here’s a fascinating historical ‘might’ve been’ for you. The man who made Infinifactory – Zachtronics, aka Zach Barth – almost made Minecraft. After all, Notch’s game was an admitted copy of Infiniminer, one of Zachtronics’s early games. But Infiniminer’s source code was leaked shortly after...
If you loved Magicka and can’t wait f or more, here’s a one-paragraph review for you. Magicka 2 is faster, slimmed-down and just as brutal. Changes to the spell system rob the advanced spells of their most potent powers, but make them easier to wield....
One of the great things about sourcing content for these independent gaming pages is that I can follow game development, and the people doing it, over time. I first saw Square Heroes at PAX Australia in 2013 and I recall it as being so immersive,...
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