Last week marked the end of June’s Steam Next Fest, an event promoting hundreds of free playable demos that has run three times a year since 2021. It’s a time for developers to update and polish their demos and put out the best representation of their game so far and if they’re lucky, rack up…
After out initial impressions of VTM: Eternal Whispers, we reached out to developer FLYOS games with a few questions about the upcoming game, how their history with the franchise informs the future, and the comparison to Disco Elysium. Below is the edited transcript of the email exchange with Gary Paitre, Cofounder and Creative Director at…
It is not difficult to get me to root against law enforcement and the entrenched systems that left thousand of GWoT era vets with their ass out in the wind. It is more difficult to get me to root for an escaped convict who replaces his natural born family unit with a shake-and-bake family who really ought…
I know mobile games have a reputation for being attention-destroying Skinner Boxes. Slot machines wearing paper mustaches that are always teasing the user towards one more pull. Except instead of financial enrichment you are usually chasing a .jpg of your favorite characters in new costumes, often scantily clad. Heroes of fantasy and fiction, wearing swimwear…
After the Nintendo Direct on June 10th, Nintendo spent a good deal of time with the upcoming remake of Starfox 64, now simply titled Star Fox. While the House Mario Built points specifically to 64, this is actually the 5th retelling of the scenario originally told in the initial release of Star Fox on the…
It had been a long day. I was tired. I was hungry. I was trapped at work without a vehicle available to me. I’m not making excuses. I’m not trying to make you feel sorry for me. I’m just trying to make you understand what would make man order the KFC x Supergirl Ultimate Tenders…
As a lover of Dave the Diver and Cooking Mama-esque games, I’m super excited to see this! The bold and colorful 3D art style is a departure from the pixel style of Dave the Diver, but it looks sick as hell. I don’t know if the game’s Japanese setting is influencing this thought, but seeing…
I have a long standing obsession with RPGs and vampire stories. For my money, one of the greatest games of the turn of the century was Troika Games’ messy, but beloved, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. A quarter-of-a-century later, the art collective ZA/UM would release Disco Elysium, a role-playing game that was not only one of…
At this point, I don’t remember a time when these things weren’t around. I’ve seen multiple videos where an adult has a room full of gimmicky fidget toys, and it doesn’t sit right with me. People with retirement accounts having copious amounts of overpriced ‘squishies’ isn’t normal. You are either obsessed with consumerism and can’t…
The next thing from Bungie. That was all I understood as I plugged my info into the sign-up website for the Alpha. It was the summer of 2014. I was 24 years old, a year into the relationship that would eventually evolve into my marriage. I was working as a photo-journalist for a local news…
