Video Game Features

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…

Due to the ongoing political situation happening in Ukraine right now, a bunch of game developers publishes and indies have come together to create an amazing bundle of wonderful games. The proceeds from the bundle go on to the…

This guest article, on the Best Turn-Based RPGs for Nintendo Switch, was submitted by Marcello Cacace of Turn Based Lovers. Turn-based games have been a staple of Nintendo consoles since the beginning. Fire Emblem got its start on the NES…

2021 has been another wild year, with the world still mostly on fire and everything being terrible. But you know what hasn’t been terrible? Some of the games I’ve managed to play during the last 12 months. Whilst I haven’t played as much in…

Does Alan Wake Remastered count? Maybe not. If it does, it's that. >So... 2021 huh. Let's leave it at that for a yearly recap. We all know it sucked. Will next year be better... I'm not willing to tempt fate. At least, as ever, media…

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Retro games always bring a lot of nostalgia gushing back, especially if you have memories of playing them with your family and friends as a small child. With so many retro games from the past in memory, it can often be hard to find good…

Society has broken apart into gangs and pockets of survivors. Urban Strife starts you off freshly rescued from a near-fatal crash and challenges you to save an ailing, failing community of elderly survivors from the wandering undead and the…

What will you do with yourself today? This is a question asked mainly by parents when intending to load their teenage children with tasks around the house, or by a spouse who senses that their partner looks dangerously close to having a lie…

Lead the Flaustrian Space Race, carefully monitoring and managing your astronaut's stats, appeasing the five high priests, spinning the wheels of propaganda in your favour and all while trying to meet deadlines. Astronaut: The Best is a…

Difficulty is a constant source of contention in gaming. Some want easier access to the content of a game, others want an exhilarating challenge. However, the structure of many games and their narratives suggest that the experience cannot…

In “We-go” tactics games, turns are removed altogether and the player and enemies move simultaneously. Broken Lines is the most recent iteration of this style and a darn good implementation of it too. Instead of turns, the gameplay in…

When you hurt yourself the pain lingers, you age, things freeze up, bits don't work like they used to; things start falling off or falling out. Who'd want to be mortal? Well, at least one angel has a serious case of FOMO, and Incarnation is…

Video games are an interactive audio-visual medium that can conveys stories or experiences in a way few other forms of media can. The methods used by games to convey themselves are as varied as the genres they cover. This diversity allows…

When it comes to the mobile gaming field, there are so many different types of strategy games out there. There are massive 4x strategy games, real time tactics based games, turn based games, and then there are territory conquest games.…

At the moment humanity is at an industrial peak; for better or worse, technology is racing forward faster than it can be regulated, and humanity is still, in many ways, dealing with issues from generations ago. In Song of Farca you take on…

Quantum League is an FPS where timing matters more than your aim. This arena shooter gives players a chance to work with their past and future selves in order to take down opponents and score big.

To be completely honest, I have never played Frog Fractions before, because why would I have? I hate fractions. I am not a big fan of frogs, why would I want to play a math game. As it turns out, Frog Fractions has some bad branding, as you…

As a part of my IGF judging, I got to take on an early demo of Pill Baby — a story-based action game about an immigrant who has just moved cities to take on a new, and somewhat average job.  As a new person to this world, you seem to not…

Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends takes the magic of the comic and turns it into a fun-filled platformer packed to the brim with wonderment and awe. Exploring Slumberland as Nemo and friends certainly seems like a dream come true!