The Kickstarter-backed Sundered, a game we previewed at PAX East this year, is about to start the closed beta process for its 4,600 backers. To celebrate, the team at Thunder Lotus Games has released a compelling new trailer for the game: Like the…
Video Game Review: Mr. Shifty
This is what happens when you can go anywhere and decide to go nowhere. Mr. Shifty is an oddity for me, so much as that I wanted to like it a lot more than I ended up doing. The setup…
Earthfall is Now Available in Steam Early Access
We previewed it at PAX just a few weeks ago, and now Earthfall has arrived in Steam Early Access for the world to try. Coming from developer Holospark, Earthfall is a co-operative first person shooter set on an Earth invaded…
Platform Wars: Do PC and Consoles have a Mutual Enemy in Mobile Gaming?
Any eight-year-old will tell you that the Xbox is rubbish and that smartphone games are the exclusive domain of the unwashed “casual” player but that kind of award-winning rhetoric skips over the fact that gaming is a nearly universal hobby,…
Video Game Review: Pit People
It’s Fire Emblem, without all the anime and self-seriousness. The following review is of Pit People was completed while the game was in Early Access. At that time, a score was provided. In the wake of the full release, we have…
Video Game Review: Night In The Woods
At the end of everything… “You are always welcome here,” my mother reminds me as I haul in boxes of my possessions. I know that she’s telling the truth, but I also know that she doesn’t really have the room…
Gameplay Impressions: Mr. Shifty Beta
The pitch for the Mr. Shifty beta puts it best: imagine if you were playing Hotline Miami but with powers of Nightcrawler from X-Men. What you see is basically what you get with Mr. Shifty. Taking a top-down perspective popularized…