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Cartridge Defense — A collectible cart game?
Cartridge Defense could keep it as simple as having a cartridge for a machine gun and another for a flamethrower, but the different cartridges have a variety of benefits. Some allow you to place multiple towers, or towers of different types…
Hero’s Crossing — selling to heroes before someone else does!
Hero’s Crossing is a two to four player, town-building management game where your dice are a valued resource and trying to sell items to heroes is your plan, all before your competitors are able to claim these heroes for themselves. The…
B3’s Guide to Child Friendly Gaming during CoViD-19 Lockdown
For those looking to not only give the kids something safe to do but also help create some scenarios in which parents are comfortable enough to relax for five minutes, this article outlines the games and platforms which are most likely to…
Oriflamme is a deadly card game that will spoil your party
I don’t often play what I would consider to be party games, and as a rule, I discount them on the basis that they lack the decisions and depth that I seek. Oriflamme rewrites the rulebook thanks to its exciting, often outright mean…
Streets of Rage 4 — Future Nostalgia
Coming fresh off the nostalgic high that was Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap, LizardCube have not only delivered an addition to the series; but one the fans will look back on extremely fondly as a standout entry
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off confusingly starts with pancakes?
When I was a child, SpongeBob SquarePants was the cartoon of choice. My first alarm clock sang the F is for Friends song, my toy chest was covered in foam character stickers, I had little toy figurines — I had a lot of Spongebob stuff. When…
Quest Hunter — Role Play for Beginners
The loop of “Get Quest, Collect Item, Get Reward” is the main draw of Quest Hunter and can be quite additive with a “Just One More” style that eats away your spare time.
Stranded Deep is the most obvious survival simulation to date
When it comes to survival games, you can choose from several kinds of zombie apocalypse, you can escape from despotic robots, and you can even survive freezing temperatures or explore a raging river. One theme that has seemed to be…
Ring of Fire — An Investigative Look
Welcome to New London, a solarpunk Utopia of the 2060s. Take on the mantle of Detective Grosvenor — a jaded, middle-aged detective — and track down a radicalised serial killer in a dark underworld. An accessible, interesting detective game,…
Explore the limits of your sanity in Sunless Sea
Among all the roguelike games that I’ve been hoping to see make an appearance on my Xbox One, Sunless Sea is perhaps right at the top of the list. I love the idea of exploring an expansive sea filled with mystery and danger, and with what…
MaoMao Castle — 9 Tries, 9 Lives
With MaoMao Castle's new beginnings on the horizon, we follow up on Dann's piece to see what the Cat-Dragon and her creators are up to.
Break the monotony of lockdown with Imhotep: The Duel
Last year, I was lucky enough to grab a copy of Phil Walker-Hardings' Imhotep, a two to four-player game in which the players compete to build pyramids, obelisks and tombs in honour of the Pharaoh. In Imhotep: The Duel, the gameplay is…
A Summer with a Shiba Inu contains cute doggos
A Summer with a Shiba Inu is a visual novel by Quill Game Studios that combines a dystopian world with Shiba Inus.
Afterglow Deluxe+ Audio Wired Controller — Pretty Colors
I’ve been playing my Nintendo Switch more and more recently due to being stuck at home. Subsequently, I've been falling in love with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Often, I find that playing on a bigger screen is more fun, so I like…
Airship City — Unique movement mechanics are not enough to propel this game to greatness
Airship City sees up to four players competing to provide the most for the betterment of a great metropolis in the sky. Harvest resources, contribute towards communal social projects and fulfil supply requests but plan carefully because, in…
Journey to the Savage Planet: Hot Garbage DLC — Vacation Cancelled
Does the Journey to the Savage Planet: Hot Garbage DLC offer new heights for our spacefaring hero’s adventure or just end up feeling mostly recycled?
Wartile is a Real Time Board Game with an unusually authentic look
When I think of board game adaptations, I put them into two camps: those which retain a near-exact replica of the game that inspired them, and those which simply take the IP and produce a completely different sort of game. Wartile, which…
Pong Quest is much more than just Pong
A new entry in the long-running Pong series has released in the form of Pong Quest, but as you might imagine from the name, it's not just a game of a ball and two paddles now.
Ninjala Beta Impressions — Bubblegum Pop
This week I took part in the open beta for Ninjala, an upcoming free to play game by GungHo coming exclusively to Nintendo switch. With its colourful visuals and close-quarters, playfully chaotic gameplay, I was pleasantly surprised from…
Freakout: Calamity TV Show — Just how calamitous is it?
The environments are very hard to navigate due to the camera. It’s often difficult to tell if something is an obstacle until you run into it, and considering how fast-paced this is, that’s pretty much a death sentence. Enemies can often…