When the heavily in debt crew of the salvage vessel happen upon a distress beacon coming from the planet “Lonely Orphan” which has no solar system to call home, things don’t work out the way they hoped in this sci-fi horror comic from Oni Press. The book opens up aboard the Cortes as the crew […]
Grief and Loss in Yokahama: How Yakuza leads the light on mature games
I’m currently on the fifth chapter of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon, so I’m not really ready to provide a review just yet. However, I do want to talk about how it’s handling a very specific thing that’s genuinely made me emotional at times because I think it really needs to be […]
BMX The Game (Early Access)
2020 may have been an awful year, but it has seen a surprising number of extreme sports simulators. I’ve already written at length about Session, Skater XL (here and here) and Drift 21, that’s two skateboarding games and a game trying to replicate the feeling of drifting a car realistically, now its BMX’s time in […]
Why inclusivity in gaming is a good thing
I’m going to tread carefully here (as a straight-white 30 something-year-old male), but this is something that I’ve committed to writing about after the artwork for Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 (titled “Futures Rewritten”). In the artwork, two of the main characters from Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers are depicted, I won’t go into details on […]
Inertial Drift
Never let it be said that there’s an absence of racing games that don’t take themselves seriously, I’ve now covered four very different driving games over the past few weeks and this one is probably the most unique of the lot. You see, whilst it looks like the bastard child of PS2 games Auto Modellista […]
Delayed #Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – The Final Week
Okay, it took me longer than it should have to get here, but it’s here and it’s done! Episode 6 New York, Two years ago, Alan awakes in his apartment, seemingly hungover, the screen pulses with white light. He takes some painkillers and puts on some sunglasses before pressing the play button on his answer […]
Drift 21 (Early Access)
One thing I’ve enjoyed this generation, as you may have noticed from my post about continuing coverage of games that see continued development, is the introduction of Early Access titles. I know its not everyone’s cup of tea, but I actually really like the theory of buying into a game during its development process and […]
Beating them with a stick
Earlier this week I read this interview with Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida, the interview itself has a lot of potentially interesting stuff for fans of Square-Enix’s MMO regarding cross-overs and is overall, a really good interview. However, my focus today is the way in which the article opens. “Despite a disastrous launch back […]
Delayed #Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – Week I’m not tracking them Edition
Wake and Barry find themselves in a jail cell, Alan remarks that the FBI agent had taken the manuscript pages, he tells Barry he needs to get out and talk to Cynthia Weaver because she saw what happened at the lake. He hears Agent Nightingale and Sheriff Breaker arguing, but then has another vision, though […]
#Horroctober Alan Wake playthrough – Week 4.5
Knowing I’m not going to get this write up finished before Halloween at my previous pace, I’m upping the regularity of these updates. Episode 4 Alan awakens to Alice’s face looking down on him, but it then begins to change and takes on the appearance of Dr Hartman. He tells Wake that he’s had a […]