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Video hosted by Steve Heller The Anacrusis is a co-op shooter set in a 70’s inspired sci-fi universe, that shares more than just a little DNA with Left 4 Dead. The debut release from Stray Bombay, the studio founded by former Valve writer Chet Faliszek (Left 4 Dead, Portal,
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Written by Rinoa Carmichael After a long and if not successful, odd, marketing campaign, EA’s Dante’s Inferno was finally released in early 2010. A few months later to zero fanfare whatsoever, Yoko Taro’s NieR would release. Dante’s Inferno was considered to be fine, maybe even good?
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Video hosted by Steve Heller A few weeks ago I sat down with Thomas Hegarty, one of three founders at UK studio, Roll7. Just months before the release of their return to OlliOlli, I wanted to discuss the formation of the studio, and what they hoped to achieve returning back
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Video hosted by Steve Heller A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down with a preview build of OlliOlli World for our friends over at Impulse Gamer. I cannot express just how much I enjoyed grinding through this hills of this multicolored techno-wonderland that they have created.
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Video hosted by Steve Heller The day after the announcement of El Paso, Elsewhere, Strange Scaffold’s newest title that hits particularly hard for the studio lead, I sat down with Xalavier Nelson Jr. to talk about their career. In my mind I had a picture of the interview really
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Video hosted by Steve Heller Imagine Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy inside of James Cameron’s Avatar, with a touch of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie… You know, the good one. And you get BIOMUTANT, a sprawling open-world RPG that casts you on a quest to save
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Written and hosted by Steve Heller. In a world where every game is a deckbuilding Roguelike, creating something truly unique is no easy feat. Ground Shatter’s Fights in Tight Spaces is a turn-based tactical card game that takes the blueprint of other Roguelike card battlers, and lets the actions
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Social deduction games have long been a favorite of mine. Ever since I played The Ship at a LAN back in 2006, I was hooked on the idea of playing with people in a more social context than shooting baddies, or ticking down flags in Day of Defeat. Since then
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Written and hosted by Steve Heller When I think of indie platformers, more often than not it’s the tough as nails 2D offerings. Dustforce is one of my favorites, I owe my career to the anger-inducing levels in Super Meat Boy, and more recently Celeste has cemented itself as
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Written by Rinoa Carmichael Games are a big medium. It’s impossible to know every game, follow every format, genre, region, and so naturally we are all going to fall into blind spots. This is natural and fine in a general sense. However, mobile gaming has often existed in a
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Video hosted by Steve Heller I was pretty excited for Ashwalkers, a new narrative-focused survival adventure that takes place in a volcanic wasteland. Unfortunately it was was devoid of meaning, leaving a bad taste in my mouth at the end of my first, and only run of the supposedly repeatable
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Written and photographed by Drew Taylor You paint the heavens with your fingertip, connecting stars into unnamed constellations until you find one that you like. The stars always shine brighter with you. We’re lying on our backs in the tall grass, side by side. Our heads are gently touching.