Video Game Features

Just as you become familiar with one mechanic, it offers you the next one with a subtle cough and a thrash of a power chord.

Roll out the red carpet, ignore the vomit by Ms. Croft, and make sure to compliment Kratos’ outfit. It’s time for the awards!

Once the most popular genre and then long-forgotten as audiences focussed more on action, the humble point-and-click adventure has had something of a resurgence in recent years… But with so many options to choose from, why would you want to…

Oh, to be a cat out in the world! In A Day with Mochi, you get to do exactly that — play as a young cat who is currently living on a tropical island. There are tons of local cats here that just wander around doing whatever they want to do.…

A Squirrel Must Have Buried It is a charming combination game where you have to combine various nature-themed objects that could have been possibly buried for future use - who knows.  In A Squirrel Must Have Buried It, you start off with…

I am not someone who likes battling other people, in any sense of any game. It’s just not my thing. However I am a Pokemon fan, so I wanted to attend Pokemon EUIC in London, although every year I wonder if it’s worth attending.  Pokemon…

I am such a big fan of food, and as someone who enjoys video games as well, getting themed ramen sounds like a fantastic idea! Shoryu has previously done collabs with Final Fantasy and their ramen, which I have enjoyed. Much like last time,…

RATIFACT is a puzzle game where you are working in a factory trying to make rat toys for other… rats, maybe?! Sort of like making doll kits, except these different rats are very much alive, until they aren’t, and you need to do a lot of set…

Regardless, here you will find a horror game a year for the past decade, along with the occasional honourable mention. You’ll find fewer major releases here, as I’m much keener to shine my torch on something you may have missed, forgotten,…

Yes, folks, we’re back! Thank you for being patient whilst we dealt with that unpleasantness just now. We told Lara to lay off the scotch. Multiple times. We’d like to apologise to Kratos and assure him that we’ll cover his medical bills...

There are tons and tons of different racing games on the market. Some rely on being super realistic, some rely on the types of cars or characters featured in the game, and others are doing something new and different. KartRider: Drift is a…

2022 eh. Bit of a mixed year, but I dare say a modest improvement over the last few. Music and movies absolutely crushed it this year, so many quality releases for all tastes. Even the pandemic decided to take a smaller role in the year’s…

What doesn’t keep you guessing so much is the gameplay itself, which handles in pretty much the same way as its inspiration. Light and heavy attacks, parries, dodge rolls, and stamina bars do exactly what you expect. There are a few things…

Originally released last year, for the 2021 PICO-8 Advent Calendar, Spirit Solstice is a celebration of the PICO-8 engine as much as it's a peaceful, path-finding wander through a starry night. Before we start, it's worth noting that in the…

I don't know about you, but modern life feels incredibly fast-paced and hectic; it's hard to switch off or to think of a life that's any different that the one that we're currently stuck in. Pinecone Dreaming is a short Bitsy game,…

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…

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…

Let's talk about Mechajammer again, specifically let's talk about it now that it's had its big v1.1 Refracted update.

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…

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…