Time makes fools of us all and video game backlogs make fools of time. We welcome Sam Harrison to the site to let us know all the best games of the year… that he didn’t play.
KillJoy's Vtubing Rollercoaster | Winter Spectacular 2021
2021 felt more like an arduous trek than anything else in many ways. KillJoy certainly had his fair share of challenges but he sure has ended up in a pretty damn cool place if we say so ourselves.
What Khee Hoon Chan Learned From Six Exhausting Years of Freelancing | Winter Spectacular 2021
You can do a lot in six years, you can also learn a lot of lessons, Khee Hoon Chan certainly has, and they want to share some of those lessons with you.
Review | To The Rescue - Who Let The Dogs In?
Dog’s are great. Video games are great. So it stands to reason that a video game about loving dogs would also be great. Amy Eastland is here to let us know if To The Rescue is worth a scratch behind the ears!
Review | Gang Beasts (Switch) - With Friends Like These
You know Gang Beasts. You have probably played Gang Beasts. If not, you have DEFINITELY watched people play Gang Beasts.
Gang Beasts is great. But how does it hold up on the Switch? Ruddy Celestial investigates.
Review | Gloomhaven - Better Than Board-fore
Despite modern-day RPGs owing most of their existence to tabletop games, it is very rare for board games migrated to PC or Console to feel that great.
That is why Dave McAdam is delighted that the board game of the moment has managed to make the leap from the table to the screen so well.
Review (Early Access) | Festival Tycoon - Ride High, Sell Low
Remember when people used to gather in large groups and listen to music? Well with Festival Tycoon you can re-live the glory days of pre-2020 by camping out in the mud, losing your ID and credit card and getting food poisoning from dodgy hotdogs… Ok, it might not let you do all that but Marie Pritchard still thinks this game has promise.
Update Patch | October
October felt like it arrived out of nowhere and then left as if it lasted for three months. That means that there was also three months of news to catch up on, right?
We should check with Alex Green and see if this maths checks out.
Review | Foxhole - I'm Doing My Part
War may never change, but video games certainly do. So that begs the question, why haven’t they managed to capture the sheer scale and brutality of conflict yet?
Well, Jamie A. Nicholas thinks that there is a game that finally has. Foxhole.
Pumpkin Spice 2021 | The Best Haunted House in Games is a Space Ship
Games are full of haunted houses. Hell, one of gaming biggest franchises is just a synonym for the concept. So it might come as a surprise that video game’s greatest residence of evil is actually a spaceship. Well, At least according to Jon Simpson.
Review | Back 4 Blood - Long Live The Undead King
Some things just can’t be killed. Namely, co-op, wave-based, survival shooters.
Matthew John McCormick is back to let us know if Turtle Rock’s long-awaited homecoming brings new life to the genre or if it is going to be left for dead by its contemporaries.
Games, Mental Health and The Digital Realms We Escape To
Mental Health is a hard and complex thing and sometimes we just need a break from it all. Sometimes we just need to spend some time in another world.
Kelsey Raynor looks at the relationship between our mental health and the faraway worlds we spend time in.
Interview | ManaVoid, Rainbow Billy and Creating a Rainbow Hero
GET OVER HERE! WE’RE HAVING A GAY OLD TIME!
Join Tyler Constable as he sat down with ManaVoid to discuss all things Rainbow Billy, queer representation and repurposing the art of the 1930s for something fabulous!
Review | Youtubers Life 2 - Clickbait
There is a lot to unpack here so let’s get straight into our Youtubers Life 2 review by Amy Eastland… BUT FIRST A WORD FROM OUR SPONS—
Review | Skatebird - Wing and A Prayer
Skateboards? Birds? lo-fi beats to chill and relax to? PUNS?
In theory, Skatebird is the perfect game, so we’ve welcomed back Jon Simpson to let us know if this eyecatching indie flies high or if its wings were clipped before it could take flight.
Pumpkin Spice 2021 | Beast and Blade, Ludwig the Accursed
Most of us spent our time with Bloodborne dying and cursing Miyazaki under our breath. Not Oisín Kuhnke, they were thinking about something much more… pointed.
Pumpkin Spice 2021 | Slightly Scary Games To Mildly Mortify You
We all love a bit of spice in our pumpkin latte but there is such a thing as too spicy. That applies to horror games too. So with that in mind, Kate Robinson is back to recommend some spooky games with a kick… But not too much of one!
Review | Far Cry 6 - The New Boss Is The Same As The Old Boss
It hasn’t been a great year for Ubisoft, maybe Yves should take a holiday, I hear Yara is lovely this time of year…
Matthew John McCormick is back to examine the rut Far Cry has lodged itself in over the last decade.
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Review | Chasing Static - Escape To The Countryside [Pumpkin Spice 2021]
In the British countryside, no one can hear you scream... but you can pick up a handful of regional radio stations, so that’s a win, I guess.
Oma Keeling joins us to let us know if the spooky Welsh throwback, Chasing Static, is worth a Halloween playthrough.
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Review | A Juggler's Tale - There Are No Strings on Me [Pumpkin Spice 2021]
Video games are often described as a tangle of code by the time they release. So, what if we made one based all around puppets and strings… What could possibly go wrong!
Oma Keeling is back to let us know if anything has gone awry for A Juggler’s Tale.