Review: Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas

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Publisher FDG Entertainment Developer Cornfox & Brothers Review platform Xbox One and Nintendo Switch Release date Sep 12, 2016 Oceanhorn follows in the footsteps of other role-playing titles where a young boy, ironically, will have to save the world from the monster that has plagued the land for ages…something the local folk have deemed too … Read more

Review: Aven Colony

Review: Aven Colony

Publisher Team17 Software Developer Mothership Entertainment Review platform Xbox One Release date Jul 25, 2017 As an avid fan of city building and city management games, I was eager to play some Aven Colony on my Xbox One. Since the start of this year, many of my favourite developers have started porting over these types … Read more

Preview: Aven Colony

Preview: Aven Colony

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: As an avid fan of city building and city management games, I was eager to play some of Aven Colony on my Xbox One. Since the start of this year, many of my favourite developers have started porting over these types of games to Xbox One, most notably Paradox, … Read more

Review: Blitzkrieg 3

Publisher Nival Developer Nival Review platform Windows 10 Release date Jun 2, 2017 Although the Blitzkrieg franchise hasn’t been one of the biggest strategy series released, with titles such as Age of Empires and Heart of Iron grabbing the biggest chunk of the genre, Blitzkrieg has always had a bit of a soft spot in … Read more

Sony is protecting Xbox One and Nintendo Switch owners by blocking cross-play

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Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Warning: This article contains images of molestation by Sony’s The Playroom users. During an interview with Eurogamer, the infamous Sony executive Jim Ryan was grilled not only for their lacklustre E3 showing, but also the fact that Sony in their infinite wisdom decided that their users would be safer … Read more

Why Xbox and Nintendo will hang over Sony’s E3 conference

This week's Deals with Gold include Overcooked and Styx: Shards of Darkness

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: With E3 just around the corner, it needs to be discussed how much Xbox will influence—if not already—and hang over Sony’s E3 2017 press conference this year like a sombre dark cloud. When Microsoft announced their Project Scorpio at E3 last year, Sony was clearly surprised by the reveal, … Read more

Review: Randall

Review: Randall

Publisher We The Force Studios Developer We The Force Studios Review platform This game was reviewed on Windows 10 with a review code provided by the publisher. Release date Jun 6, 2017 After a successful Steam Greenlight campaign, the small platformer Randall released officially on Windows 10. The game follows the same platforming concepts as … Read more

Review: Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada

Review: Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada

Publisher Koei Tecmo Developer Koei Tecmo Review platform Windows 10 Release date May 29, 2017 Before we begin my review of this game, I have to admit that I haven’t played any of the Samurai Warriors series from Koei Tecmo, and up to today, much of Japanese culture was quite foreign to me, beyond the … Read more

Here’s how Microsoft can counter the Xbox Scorpio hysteria regarding multiplayer frame rates

Xbox executives react to lackluster PlayStation 4 Pro reveal

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: This issue has been a massive point of contention between gamers since the reveal of the Project Scorpio update to the Xbox One line of consoles. Since Bungie revealed that all consoles–sans Project Scorpio–will run at a fixed 30fps as the PlayStation 4 Pro remained incapable–at least in its … Read more

Review: World to the West

Review: World to the West

Publisher Rain Games Developer Rain Games Review platform Xbox One Release date May 17, 2017 Rain Games, the creators of the wildly popular Teslagrad released the follow up to that game on Xbox One recently to what seemed to be a rather tepid response from the community. I myself haven’t heard of either game too … Read more