And this fantastic Metroidvania game is being released very soon indeed…
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I did my first article for PC Gamer!
My preview feature on Night Call is in issue 322 – and I’m very excited to see my words in print.
August is Metroidvania Month
Four fantastic Metroidvania games are being released this month: Dead Cells, Chasm, Death’s Gambit and Guacamelee 2.
Moonlighter updates incoming
The excellent dungeon crawler Moonlighter is getting a ton of free updates – and there are also rumblings about an incoming Switch version.
Blacksad: Under The Skin is a new game based on a fantastic comic that you should definitely read
Co-created by an ex-Disney animator, Blacksad depicts a beautiful film noir-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals. And soon it’s going to be a game.
Steel Rats is Trials HD meets The Wild One… with added killer robots
You’ve got a bike with a chainsaw wheel and a city full of robots to mow down. Steel Rats is stupid and wonderful, and it’s coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4 later this year.
Disco Elysium is quite fantastically ambitious
It’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Video Game, but without the bats. Disco Elysium is shaping up to be a cracking isometric RPG with superb dialogue.
There’s now a video game version of the board game Terraforming Mars – and I played it
Terraforming Mars is coming to a PC near you in 2018, with all of its shonky public-domain artwork intact. Depending on your perspective, this is either a very good thing or a very bad thing.
State of Mind is a slick-looking low-poly thriller
State of Mind is a promising techno-thriller from point and click experts Daedalic Entertainment, with a distinctive low-poly look.
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Spiffing Reads: Roman Numerals and Giant Beetles
This week: the definitive ruling on whether it should be Black Ops IIII or IV, a massive mushroom beetle is found in No Man’s Sky, a man plays Nintendo Switch using a 1986 pocket TV, and where it all went wrong for Atari.
Spiffing Reads: the Papers, Please short film and Berlin-nightclub turn-based tactics
This week: the amazing Papers, Please short film, what Lucas Pope did next, the disco-tastic turn-based tactics game All Walls Must Fall, a secret trick in Super Mario Bros. 3, and Donald Trump targets video games after school shootings.
Burnout Paradise Remastered heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC
Burnout is coming back! A remastered version of Burnout Paradise is set for launch on 16th March, with a PC version heading along later in the year.
Spiffing Reads: UK Switch Sales Slower Than Elsewhere
This week: the Nintendo Switch isn’t breaking records in the UK, Celeste helps out with mental health, Sleep Is Death deserves a reboot, a Twitter bot unearths a lost game, and why cheating was cool.
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Spiffing Reads: The Woman Who Wants to Marry Tetris and The Cruellest Game Ever
This week: the story of the woman in love with Tetris, the most bastard game you’ve ever seen, the XCOM director on Mario + Rabbids, what went wrong with Lair, Arkane’s lost game, and the hubris of Imagine Software.
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Spiffing Reads: ARMS, Nintendo Labo and the future of loot boxes
This week: the unlikely return of Nintendo Power, why ARMS is so good, the regulation that could outlaw loot boxes, a fascinating chat with industry veterans and the genius of Nintendo Labo.
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Gravity Rush 2 servers to shut down only a year after release
Just 12 months after the game came out, the servers for Gravity Rush 2 are being switched off – meaning tons of items and costumes are set to disappear.