Andy Kelly
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The latest Everspace 2 update has 150+ changes, including new missions inspired by PC classic Descent
The latest update for Everspace 2, titled Zharkov: The Vortex, adds a huge amount of new content, tweaks, and features to the game—which developer Rockfish has helpfully outlined in a huge Kickstarter post. The update takes its name from a newly added region of space, which the dev promises is "filled with new secrets, activities, puzzles, and loot, but lots of danger too." Check out the… → Read More
The making of horror masterpiece Alien: Isolation: 'It was a giddy, exhausting, intense time'
In 2010, a group of hardcore Alien fans at Creative Assembly were given the opportunity of a lifetime: making a game set in that iconic sci-fi universe, with the full blessing of 20th Century Fox. This wasn’t some non-canon spin-off, but a legitimate part of the Alien series. And the result is one of the best horror games, and one the most faithful film adaptations, ever made. → Read More
The Ascent review
A quality action RPG set in a mind-blowing cyberpunk city. → Read More
The Ascent's cyberpunk metropolis is way cooler than Night City
Cyberpunk 2077's setting has nothing on the Arcology. → Read More
How to get into Final Fantasy
Where to start with this epic series of Japanese RPGs. → Read More
The official WitcherCon Geralt hot tub stream is incredibly chill
As I type this, almost 10,000 people are watching Geralt of Rivia (well, a man cosplaying as him) sitting in a bath tub sipping a goblet of wine.This is the countdown screen for WitcherCon, a show dedicated to all things Witcher hosted by Netflix and CD Projekt. Hot tub streams have generated a lot of controversy on Twitch lately, which this is poking fun at.I've been watching it for almost 30… → Read More
Awesome Yakuza spin-off Judgment deserves a PC release
Judgment (known as Judge Eyes in Japan) is a Yakuza spin-off where you play as a detective instead of a criminal, and it kicks ass. You are Takayuki Yagami, a PI with a troubled past and a cool leather jacket, who works out of an office in Kamurocho—the seedy Tokyo red light district fans of the Yakuza series will be more than familiar with. It's functionally the same as the Yakuza games, but… → Read More
Night Delivery is a terrifying Japanese horror game about a courier having a very bad night
Night Delivery is a game by Chilla's Art, two brothers who specialise in short, atmospheric, and generously priced horror games. Last week I wrote about The Convenience Store, a supremely creepy modern ghost story. And this week I've been playing Night Delivery, the brothers' latest release. It's the same basic premise: a night shift worker doing a mundane job, who is suddenly thrust into a… → Read More
Play matchmaker with an entire galaxy of weird aliens in this sci-fi strategy game
Choices can have galactic consequences in The Fermi Paradox. → Read More
AAA publishers failed the horror genre, but that's fine: it belongs to the indies now
If you want to play interesting, exciting horror games that push the boundaries of the genre, you won't find them in the mainstream. Established series like Resident Evil aside, horror has never really been a big seller for AAA publishers. And now, in a time when these companies are more risk averse than ever, horror games have been all but abandoned. I mean, it's hard to make a service shooter… → Read More
Spookware takes classic horror movie tropes and turns them into wild, weird minigames
A masked axe murderer approaches your car, but it won't start. You frantically turn the key in the ignition, until the engine finally sputters to life and you make your escape with seconds to spare. You're jamming shells into a shotgun as a shambling zombie approaches, and you manage to load it and pull the trigger moments before your brain gets eaten. Your flashlight's batteries die suddenly in… → Read More
This $2 Japanese horror game about a haunted convenience store really got under my skin
The Convenience Store is a low-key horror game about a girl working the late shift at a store in a small Japanese town. Most indie horror games are set in creaky old houses, dingy hospitals, and other similarly overused locations. But this one takes place in a brightly lit store, which immediately grabbed my attention. You spend much of the game just working: serving customers, restocking… → Read More
Inkle reveals more about its next project, says it's more 'gamey'
The latest on the studio's untitled Highland game. → Read More
How the studio behind 80 Days made one of the best games of 2021 in just 3 months
Overboard is a devilishly clever reverse murder mystery designed by Inkle, the studio behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, and other top-tier narrative games. In 1935, aboard a ship making its way from England to New York, Veronica Villensey murders her husband—and it's your job to help her get away with it by spinning a complex web of lies. It's one of the most unique narrative games I've played on… → Read More
Showing the grass who's boss in Lawn Mowing Simulator
Something I always find satisfying in games is making stuff disappear. It could be weeds in Stardew Valley, lines in Tetris, guts in Viscera Cleanup Detail, or chunks of scrap in Shipbreaker. If I can clean up a mess, or turn a pile of something into a pile of nothing, I'm happy. So when I heard about Lawn Mowing Simulator, a game about making grass disappear, I was intrigued.In the words of… → Read More
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance review
Gut goblins galore in this lavish action RPG set in the frosty realm of Icewind Dale. → Read More
This new Sherlock game features a very different take on the famous detective
Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One is the next game from Frogwares, a development studio based in Ukraine that's been making Sherlock games for almost 20 years now. Building on ideas the developer first experimented with in Lovecraftian detective adventure The Sinking City, it's an open world game, set on the fictional Mediterranean island of Cordona. And it stars a younger, hotter Holmes, giving us a… → Read More
Every E3 2021 show, reviewed
Every year I review the big E3 conferences, which is a fun opportunity to pick out all the embarrassing moments, blunders, and mistakes. But this year's digital-only expo was disappointingly polished—a result of publishers being able to film their shows in advance in a controlled environment.Honestly, I miss the cringe. That's a big part of the E3 experience for me—and this year's parade of… → Read More
How Dying Light 2's day/night system completely transforms the city
At the PC Gaming Show we learned a little about the world of Dying Light 2, which is set for release on December 7. One of the most interesting things about the city is how it completely transforms at night, and I sat down with a developer from Techland to tell me more about that."The night is the common enemy for everyone in Dying Light 2," says creative director Adrian Ciszewski. "During the… → Read More
How to watch the Square Enix E3 conference
Square Enix's E3 2021 conference is happening today, June 13, at 12.15pm PST / 8.15pm BST. You can watch the whole thing above, via the embedded YouTube stream, or on the publisher's Twitch stream.The full line-up for the publisher's Square Enix Presents stream hasn't been revealed yet, but there are some titles that will almost certainly appear—including Final Fantasy 16, the next big sequel in… → Read More