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Blood Rage is late to the digital party, but you still Mead it in your life!
When I think of iconic modern board games, Blood Rage occupies the top spot in terms of the genre that is affectionately known as “Ameritrash". This area control game from legendary designer Eric M. Lang and big-budget publisher CMON is…
Stardew Valley: The Board Game is a great adaptation of the video game
I have spent hundreds of hours in Stardew Valley the video game. I spent so much time cultivating my land, fishing, mining, befriending everyone, and otherwise ensuring my farm is perfect. So when I heard there was going to be Stardew…
Grammarian LTD can teach you great grammar
More than a few games have tried to gamify spelling and typing over the years, but most of them, like Typing of the Dead or Scribblenauts, have it more as an input mechanic than the actual core of the game. Grammarian LTD has you take on…
Splash Cars — Making a splash, or a terrible crash?
The police will try to smash you off the road, making your life more difficult whilst other road users will undo your good work by turning the road grey again. In a neat twist though, if you drive near them, they’ll become colourful too,…
Ankh: Gods of Egypt: Pharaoh expansion adds little complexity, but lots of fun
If you’ve read my recent review of Ankh: Gods of Egypt, then you’ll know how big a fan I am of Eric Lang’s epic “Mythic” trilogy. Ankh is a fantastic game in its most basic form, but as with most games launched via Kickstarter, there are…
VR puzzler Tentacular is built for sandbox, but thrives in its campaign
I don't know about you, but when I first heard about Tentacular, a game where you're a giant betentacled beast, I knew that I had to play it. VR seems to be a perfect for anything with even a slight chaos factor — we play games to do things…
5 Minute Read — Space Engineers on console (Xbox Series X)
Open-world crafting and survival games can be daunting at the best of times, but when you take the standard approach to resource collection, base building, survival and ultimately combat and then put it in space; you have an entirely more…
Mechajammer The Refracted Update signals that its time to head back to Calitana
Let's talk about Mechajammer again, specifically let's talk about it now that it's had its big v1.1 Refracted update.
Ticket to Ride: 15th Anniversary Edition is a very special thing indeed
If you’re reading this review, then I’d be willing to bet a lot of money — maybe even a crisp fiver — that you’ve heard of Ticket to Ride. Even if you’re here because you're curious about whether you should take the step of purchasing it as…
Aztech Forgotten Gods — Weight of the Past
I'm not sure where to even begin with Aztech Forgotten Gods, so let's start at the beginning. Almost two years ago Lienzo studio teased an announcement for an alternate reality future of Mesoamérica people. Personally, the project having…
JBL Quantum 610 Wireless — Sound is Survival
The JBL Quantum 610 is more than adequate enough for the discerning gamer with a simple setup, massive battery life, hours of comfort and most importantly punchy, clear audio.
Mörk Borg Explained
Mörk Borg, which translates from Dark Castle in Swedish, is a dark fantasy, incredibly metal, Tabletop RPG. The rulebook itself is an artistic masterpiece, with everything down to the font and backgrounds taken into consideration on a…
Souldiers is a fantasy RPG tribute to metroidvanias, stuffed with modern ideas
Plenty of games threaten you with death, but few make walking into the light your first action. Souldiers does, and you'd best become familiar with death quick, because it's a key part of its learning curve. I've been slashing and dashing…
The Best FMV Games
The likes of Phantasmagoria, The 11th Hour, and Night Trap weren’t really all that great, and were more of an experiment now that developers had all this capacity on new-fangled CD-ROMs. So they’d fill them up with video and build a game…
Beat Arena — Band from VR
Beat Arena grants you the opportunity of playing in a VR rock band with classic tracks from Konami titles and the Bemani games.
Happy City is the small box city builder that has universal appeal
How do you define a happy city? Is it the number of shops and banks a city has? Is it the public spaces; the parks and libraries? Or is it access to work via industrial and commercial districts? In Happy City, you’ll balance these decisions…
Game Dev Diaries: Entry 2 — Make it, break it, test it, break it again.
Game Dev Diaries is a series of articles and videos that follows a cohort of young game design students as they embark on their final projects. With interviews, insights, and interesting viewpoints, these articles aim to showcase these…
Unbinary is a beautiful, hand-painted VR puzzler
Puzzles in a controlled, scientific facility and a wisecracking robot might feel like a familiar combination, but Unbinary shouldn't be passed over because of its familiar-sounding set-up. VR, in its modern form, has now been around for…
Ankh: Gods of Egypt completes the Eric Lang trilogy, but does an increase in plastic riches result…
Along with several other games that have really “changed” the scene for me (including Scythe and Terraforming Mars) Eric Lang’s 2015 Blood Rage is a watermark in gaming history. Blood Rage had it all — Vikings, amazing miniatures, tight…
Airborne Kingdom — Magic Carpet Ride
Drawing inspiration from Middle-Eastern stories such as Aladdin and adding an almost Steampunk-like element to them might sound like a crazy idea, but that is exactly what makes Airborne Kingdom an interesting and unusual prospect. A serene…