There are very few JRPGs with as fervent of a cult following as The Legends of Heroes and very few games the fans (in the west) have been waiting so long to play as Trails From Zero. But over a decade later does Trails From Zero still hold up? Ruddy Celestial investigates.
There was a lot of awesome stuff at EGX.
Mainly the incredible startmenu crew that could attend… I guess the games were pretty neat too. Some of the gang rounded up our favourite games at the show!
Saint Row hasn’t gotten off to the best of starts but now that the dust has settled a bit… Is it really that bad?
Matthew John McCormick has some thoughts and feelings on the series is needs to talk out.
There is no shortage of PSX-inspired horror games being released at the moment but every now and again, one nails the style so dead on it’s impossible not to be intrigued.
We welcome Angus Law to the site to review The Fridge Is Red and tell us if there’s substance behind the style.
Video games and war seem inextricably linked, however, no matter how realistic a game seeks to be can it ever really respectfully represent the world’s darkest conflicts?
Holly Hughes-Rowlands investigates.
This podcast is going up two weeks late, has speculation about a news story that turned out to be a simple mistake and is a bit of a mess. It is itself a guilty pleasure but, hey, we all had fun, right?
Little Orpheus made its debut on Apple Arcade in 2020 but now two years later it has come to consoles and PC. Does this mobile adventure hold up on the big screen?
Scot Nowbaveh lets us know.
100 Battle Royale games drop onto a map [the games industry] and only a handful can survive. Will hoping on the Battle Bus breathe new life into the classic Arkanoid series or will it be quickly eliminated?
Oma Keeling reports from Gamescom.
Fishing is always the most relaxing mini-game, so it is nice that a team is making a whole game dedicated to… *check notes*… indescribable horrors beyond human comprehension… oh, and mackerel.
Henry Stockdale reports from Gamescom.
There is no greater hell than… well, Hell. But right after that comes watching golf for six hours.
Kate Robinson takes to the links again for the site to review this indie-sports-rogue-lite.
This edition of Update Patch is brought to you by Kolsch, pork knuckle and big halls of sweaty gamers. But there was also plenty of other news this month outside of what happened in Germany.
Soul-like, souls-lite, Sekiro-surrogate, bloodborne-fawn… Ok, that last one doesn’t really work, but there are a hell of a lot of game that follow in the footsteps of Fromsoftware these days.
Thymesia is the latest game to come for the king’s crown and Tyler Denyer is here to let us know if it gets struckdown or if regicide is about to take place.
I was a Teenage Exocolonist is an innovative, smart, deck-building life-sim. It is a game worth your time but its replayability might damage the your feelings towards the conclusion of your story.
Jamie Alexander reviews a game that is almost perfect.
It is basically becoming a cliche to say this but, Destiny 2 is a very different game now to the one that launched in 2017. Now, almost 5 years later, it is about to transform again.
We asked Jon/Jenna Simspon to guide us through this next era of Bungie’s MMO.
Visual novel? Deck builder? Coming of age tale? Interactive Fiction?
Just what exactly is I Was A Teenage Exocolonist? Jamie Alexander interviews Sarah Northway about her and Finji’s new game and it seems like it might be something really special.
South of The Circle is a cinematic experience that seeks to tackle heavy themes. While many video games have done a good job of imitating film, it is rare that these types of games manage to go beyond that and take advantage of their interactive nature.
Jon/Jenna Simpson returns to let us know if this Antarctic tale can do just that.
