Ever get the feeling that you can’t trust the seemingly innocuous people around you? Perhaps you feel the need to lay out a series of elaborate traps in order to keep yourself safe from devious ne’er-do-wells that are conspiring to murder you in the long, lonely nights? In multiplayer social deduction game Eville, that may just be the case! One can never be too paranoid…
Neptunia: Sisters Vs Sisters is the next game in Idea Factory's long running RPG series and the latest entry is scheduled to hit PlayStation 4 and PS5 next year. Luckily, fans of the series will be pleased to note that both versions will also see a physical release across both the US and Europe.
It’s always great when it’s finally time to write up a game we’ve been following for a while, and as Belgian developers Happy Volcano recently put the finishing touches to You Suck at Parking, we were as excited as anybody to give it a whirl! After 18-months of tracking, would this crazy arcade-racer get the checkered flag, or would it sputter off the line and burst into flames?
Trifox, developed by Glowfish Interactive, is a 3D action-adventure platformer centred around the games protagonist Trifox and his quest to retrieve his TV remote that has been stolen away from him by an evil General. Throughout your adventure you are able to fully customise your character’s moveset and best decide which choices will help you best defeat each level, until you finally defeat the General and get back that remote of yours.
I vowed that 2022 would be the year that I finally got my teeth stuck into my horde of Nintendo Switch games via my Beat the Backlog feature, but… that hasn’t gone entirely according to plan. A barrage of incredible review opportunities has waylaid me, and until the kind folks at Nippon Ichi Software sent us an invite to review their upcoming survival horror, Yomawari: Lost in the Dark, I was entirely in the weeds. But reading the title of their upcoming release stirred a memory… I had the first two games in the series in my backlog! Keen to get back on the horse in readiness for the third entry in the franchise, I fired up Yomawari: The Long Night Collection to smash through the first two!
Don’t you just hate it when you arrive at a new school, and not only is the complex falling apart, but the lake alongside currently has a giant sea monster residing in it? No… Is it only me? Oh. Well, in that case, let me introduce you to Kraken Academy!! a top-down puzzle/adventure game from Happy Broccoli Games which sees you play as a new student to the aforementioned school where the monster from the lake tasks you with cleaning up the school and stopping it from falling apart.
Lord of the Rings: Return To Moria is currently in development by indie studio Free Range Games and today they've shared the first look at what to expect from this Dwarven adventure.
Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure sees its first major update from developers Snowcastle Games. The game, which is currently in Early Access has had a number of quality of life improvements and a host of new tools to make farming that much easier.
Platform games are absolutely my jam. My early introduction to video games was littered with them; Fantasy World Dizzy, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario World - the list goes on and on. My love of the genre has only grown as I’ve gotten older too, with challenging ‘precision’ platformers like Super Meat Boy and Celeste now ranking as some of my favourite games of all time. So when indie developers FlyAway launched Triple Take, their newest entry to the precision platform genre, I just had to try it out for myself!
I always look forward to the early part of the year when spring hasn't quite sprung and there is still a chill in the air from a winter that is slowly fading away. The time of year where you can snuggle up one weekday night and watch the best live-action video game, The Apprentice. Yes, that TV show full of over-the-top yuppies who'd sell their granny for a pack of garibaldi biscuits to win £250-grand, all of which is overseen by English Emperor Palpatine - a bloke called Alan. What fascinates me though is the 'café' where the contestants head each week before an apocalyptic showdown; it's a place where some people will become regulars, and others will only visit once before wandering off into the sunset, never to be seen again. I don't know if Route 59 took the Bridge Cafe as inspiration for Necrobarista: Final Pour, but there are a lot of similarities between the two.
