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In a year jam-packed with metroidvania style games, we get yet another one on Switch with Omega Strike from one-man developer Woblyware and publisher Digerati.
For those who play video games, the holidays are a time of big ticket items (did you think I was going to say peace on Earth and good will toward man? Hah! That too…) For a kid, video games are often too expensive to afford with one’s accumulated summer lawn mowing cash and the odd…
Uncanny Valley is a story driven survival horror game currently available on multiple platforms and now available on the Nintendo Switch.
Disclaimer: some spoilers for the base game. The Assassin’s Creed franchise has been going for over ten years. There have been, ups, downs, comic books, a movie, and so, so much more. This year, Ubisoft debuted Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and despite initial reservations from fans, the game has been a success. Odyssey has been slowly…
The Game Awards for 2018 brought some incredible surprises, one of the most pleasing being the wicked drop of a new Mortal Kombat. The new trailer is suitably gory, set to the tune of 21 Savage, and features one of our favorite thunder gods beating the hell out of a Shirai-Ryu ninja (and possibly Scorpion?)….
In the debate over whether or not video games should be considered art, GRIS is the type of game that should be at the forefront of the argument. Developer Nomada Studio have crafted a title that emulates art in ways that we haven’t seen before. It goes much deeper than the beautiful hand-drawn and watercolor graphical style. This is a game where things like the meaning, story details, setting, and more are up for interpretation to the player – much like an obscure painting hanging on a wall. What GRIS demonstrates is that there is beauty in ambiguity, and solace in solitude.
Can you hear the Geiger counter going “tick-tick-tickety?” Cause there is a ton of fallout from the recent launch of Fallout 76. The online-only survival title has generated controversy over the basic concept, the lack of NPC interactions, stability issues, game-play balance, and end-game viability. Add to that the recent scandal over a collector’s edition bag, and Bethesda is in a bad way with its fans.
Arca’s Path VR felt familiar in a comforting way, yet new all at the same time. Remember the game Labyrinth? No, it wasn’t a video game. Labyrinth was a little wooden box filled with a maze controlled by levers on both sides. You would drop a marble or ball bearing into the one end and have to tilt the maze in order to land the ball safely on the other side. The trick was this – the board was full of holes, quite literally. You had to keep the ball from falling into the holes in order to reach the finish line. Arca’s Path feels just like that – only now it’s been updated for the 21st Century.
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