Breaking into the games media is hard, and we all want to help the next generation. But giving good advice is easier said than done, so Henry Stockdale gathered up some tips for would-be mentors this Winter season.
The startmenu Winter Spectacular 2023 starts right here!
It’s been another great year for retro “boomer shooter”, many of which have been published by the once-forgotten name of Apogee. Can Wizordum’s magical twist on Doom carve out space in the growing genre?
Brandon Frost reviews.
Robocop returns 36 years on from the original.
Does Teyon's loving recreation of the satirical classic live up to the original or does this late sequel feel like pale imitation?
Matthew John McCormick reviews Robocop: Rogue City.
The first Wargroove came out after years of Advance Wars being trapped on the GBA, now in the same the first Advance Wars have been remade, Chucklefish is back with a sequel.
Does this sequel move the genre forward, or is it happy to linger in the past?
Scott Nowbaveh reviews.
Zipp’s Cafe is the latest game in the Chicken Police series and seeks to strike a much more chill tone.
Amy Eastland looks into whether this game goes down like a good drink.
There are countless Vampire Survivors-inspired games out there right now, and Hero Survival… certainly is one of them…
Branford Hubbard reviews this often-broken, always-frustrating game.
Life of Delta is a mysterious post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure with a great art stlye and intriguing set up, but is it any good?
Will Clark reviews.
Jackbox returns for its tenth iteration in as many years. Everyone knows the set-up at this point, the question is; is the punchline still funny?
Henry Stockdale reviews.
Wales Interactive’s latest FMV adventure offers wild bite-size adventure. With the latest game placing you in the weirdest hotel in England (except the one we stayed at during EGX and smelled of wet carpet).
Scot Nowbaveh checks-in to The Isle Tide Hotel, but how long will he want to stay?
Over a decade of storytelling comes to a head in The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie.
Ruddy Celestial takes a look at the latest NIS RPG.
There are a million questions worth asking about Metal Gear Solid Delta and Konami’s return to triple-A games, but Justice Herbert-Wattie believes one question is more important than all the rest…
“How will the crouch button work?”
Gamescom was full of 300,000 sweaty gamers, six-euro pretzels, and occasional video games. We sent Alex Green to fight through the throngs of the public halls to find the best games of the show.
And after all that he rounded up the biggest news in August too.
