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HYPERGUN – Review (PC)

Dave Lambden010 mins

Chances are when aliens finally do attack, we will have little time to react and formulate a plan of action. But if the belligerent extraterrestrials were so kind as to provide us with a bit of advanced notice, how would we go about creating an effective arsenal to defend ourselves with? Developer NVYVE Studios has the answer with its new rougelite first person shooter, HYPERGUN. It gives the player a near unlimited amount of weapon combinations to experiment with in an effort to give mankind a fighting chance against unwelcome invaders. It unfortunately falters with its inability to have the same creative approach to challenge as it does with weapon configuration.

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Gucamelee! 2 Shines As One Of The Best In Its Genre – Review (PS4)

Dustin Furman011 mins

Since the release of the first Guacamelee!, and also the lesser known Mutant Blobs Attack, Drinkbox Studios has become one of the premiere indie game studios. Known for their signature art style of bright contrasting colors with a simplistic but also superb aesthetic, they’ve caught the attention of many fans. Following up the more experimental touch-based game Severed, Drinkbox has returned the world of luchadors and fighting chickens with Guacamelee! 2. At first glance, it might look like a pretty basic retread of the original with beat’em up combat and a drip feed of new moves and abilities. Look past the surface though, and Guacamelee! 2 is much more than a simple revamp of its predecessor with a fresh coat of paint.

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Graveyard Keeper Is Worthy To Keep From Getting Buried – Review (PC)

Holly Furman07 mins

Look both ways when you cross the street; otherwise, Graveyard Keeper could provide an explanation for the age old question of, “What is beyond this life?” According to the developers from Lazy Bear Games, the afterlife is full of bouncing cognizant skulls, autopsies, burials, cannibalism, local politics, and apparently the expectation to either become a preacher or join a cult. Sounds pretty run of the mill, right? Sure, this game can easily be analogized to Stardew Valley and other similar games, but there are a myriad of other reasons as to why this is only a shallow description of Graveyard Keeper.

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Should You Take Your Joy Before Playing We Happy Few? – Review (PC)

Phil Neyman012 mins

Though only the second game to date from Compulsion Games, We Happy Few proves one thing about the studio – they know how to create a captivating world to explore. The studio’s follow up to 2013’s Contrast is an incredibly ambitious title that has grown leaps and bounds since it first hit Early Access nearly two years ago. Their ambition growth as a team paid off in some ways and in other ways they seemed to miss the mark.

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Madden ’19 Takes Home the Lombardi – Review (XB1)

Phil Neyman014 mins

Madden ’18 was a return to form for a series that was in desperate need of a fresh start. It’s easy to dismiss games that have yearly iterations as more of the same but, with ’18, not only did they make major improvements to the gameplay and overall fun factor – they added a single player story campaign for the first time with the incredibly popular Longshot mode. Madden ’19 takes everything that was good about ’18 and improves on it in almost every way and even brings back Longshot for season two, making this the best Madden game of the generation.

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Should You Explore the Unexplored? – Review (Switch)

Phil Neyman07 mins

Unexplored takes the game’s name very seriously. As a challenging Roguelike action RPG, no two runs will ever be the same which literally means that every time you jump back into the game you are charting unexplored territory. As you go along your adventure you will explore dangerous dungeons, forge magical items, solve mysterious puzzles’ and battle hundreds of foes. All the while’ you’ll be trying to steal the Amulet of Yendor from a terrifying dragon and attempt to make it out alive.

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Flipping Frustrated with Flipping Death – Review

Ben Smith010 mins

Penny is a over-the-top goth wannabee that gets a little too zealous about Halloween and is fired from her funeral home job. She then goes to hang out with her boyfriend in a cemetery before falling through a crypt, bashing her body on a rock, and dies – thereby meeting Death himself. Badly in need of a vacation, Death mistakes Penny for his replacement and she becomes the harbinger of doom, helping dead folks get settled into their newfound lives. 

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Live Out Your DJ Fantasy In Electronauts – Review

Phil Neyman08 mins

Electronauts can best be described as a virtual reality DJ simulation experience. If that doesn’t immediately spark your interest I don’t know what will. Unlike most rhythm games where you hit certain notes and avoid obstacles to complete a song, receive a high score and move on to the next song -Electronauts puts you in complete control. You are not just playing a song to completion, you’re helping to create it.

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