I have been playing Tomodachi life on and off since release, but I (along with many others) have grown bored. I don’t even think I have 15 miis yet and I’m over it. It’s tedious to feed them all and to wait through the level ups. Nothing motivates me to keep playing or to check in on my miis.
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
