Shotgun King developers Punkcake Délicieux have quietly rolled out another ticklish oddity in the shape of Build The Sun, a work-in-progress 2D god sim. In Build The Sun you preside over a tribe of alarming yet cute inkblot creatures, who sometimes remind me of Pikmin and sometimes, of that awful Continue Reading
Netflix have shut down one of their more trumpeted video game initiatives – a Californian studio known as team “Blue” and stocked with former Halo, God Of War and Overwatch developers. It was a major plank in Netflix’s on-going efforts to extend their film and TV streaming empire to what Continue Reading
I forgot about just-launched horror game Tormenture when ravelling together this week’s round-up of potent PC releases, but thankfully, Maw disciple Fachewachewa was on my case in the comments. It’s one of your ‘cursed video game’ videogames in the spirit of Inscryption and Pony Island, and based on a Continue Reading
Not many people hit the refund button on Sonar Shock, the indie immersive sim that’s rated Very Positive on Steam. But those that do tend to complain they couldn’t get the hang of the controls. You can understand why. Try to strafe left to dodge an attack from a blubber Continue Reading
One of last year’s best surprises was Mintrocket and Nexon’s Dave the Diver, a deeply charming and funny adventure that oscillates between deep sea exploration and being a sushi chef. The game proved a hit with critics and players alike: It scored a whopping 91% in our review, with Chris Continue Reading
I’m still processing the fact that the Fallout TV show was good. Not even good, it was kind of great, and all that in spite of the fact that it hews so closely to Bethesda’s wacky vision of the Wasteland, which I’m just a little bit tired of. I’m hardly Continue Reading
If covering Helldivers 2 this year has taught me anything, it’s that balancing a horde shooter is monstrously hard—starting with an unpopular major balance patch that dented the Railgun, it wasn’t until this month that, after a big overhaul, Arrowhead started hitting the mark again. So to see Space Marine Continue Reading
I built a ZX Spectrum Using All New Parts – YouTube Watch On Despite its reign ending decades past, the ZX Spectrum is still fondly remembered as a titan of British computing. Indeed, Sinclair superfans are still dreaming up weird and wonderful projects to this day, even implementing ray-tracing on Continue Reading
Having a healthy gut is no laughing matter and as someone with IBS, I get frequent reminders of how delicate our digestive system really is. This is probably why a health tech start-up Throne Science has decided that the best way to monitor the status of your food chute is Continue Reading
Surgent Studios was founded by actor Abubakar Salim, best known for roles as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Alyn of Hull in House of the Dragon. It went on to make Tales of Kenzera: Zau, but times have been tough since the game’s release, and now the studio is Continue Reading
