Nioh’s announcement had many drawing comparisons to Dark Souls and Onimusha. However, after spending two intense afternoons with the alpha demo I realize we’ve been wrong the entire time – this isn’t a Japanese reskin of Dark Souls, it’s the samurai counterpart to Ninja Gaiden. Crushing difficulty and steep ...
The purr of chainsaws, the rack of shotguns, and the booming thump of explosions. The symphony driving Gears of War’s online multiplayer has long been one of violent staccatos, each burst a representation of fleeting player lives. It’s a work spanning nearly ten years of genre-defining history, and the ...
Release schedules can be difficult. Gearbox Software’s hero shooter, Battleborn, supposedly faces steep competition when it releases next month, three weeks ahead of Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch. Or will it? While the two games certainly portray the same melding of genres, their similarities don’t go beyond ‘team-based’, ‘online first-person shooter’, ...
Crafting sequels are hard, much less the final entry to a system-selling franchise. The thought burns idly in my head as I fiddle with the latest build of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, a mere week after the game went gold. I – or, more accurately, series protagonist Nathan ...
Storytelling, characterization, and cinematic action has long been Remedy Entertainment’s strengths. Their Max Payne and Alan Wake games bathe in critical praise, embedding deeply within gaming’s collective memory. The Finnish studio doesn’t break stride with Quantum Break, and it may just be their most ambitious title yet. I remember ...
Over six million people participated in the open beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division, an online third-person shooter by Massive Entertainment. Clearly there’s a lot of hope riding on it, more so for publisher Ubisoft now they’ve declared 2016 free of new Assassin’s Creed releases. Can this new IP ...
Boomzap Entertainment’s Legends of Callasia is in its final week of fundraising on Kickstarter. Unfortunately the campaign isn’t doing too well, as early momentum slowed to a crawl in the days before Christmas. Perhaps it’s a victim of the holiday season, the growing caution with crowdfunding, or simply unfair ...
A closed-door event held at the Colosseum on Sat, 24 Oct, saw a huge turnout made up of invited fans, gaming media, and eSports teams. All were present to discover just what Special Force 2, the latest first-person-shooter from Korean developers Dragonfly Interactive, would bring to a crowded free-to-play ...
It takes less than an hour to complete the preview build of Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, the up-and-coming PC debut for local developers Witching Hour Studios. Its brevity is a conscious decision to suit gaming conventions, but that was all the time it needed to spirit players away into ...
In 2012, British indie studio Bare Mettle Entertainment took to Kickstarter with a pitch for an open-world isometric RPG, one that featured a dynamic story and emphasized physics in its gameplay. £160,000 was raised to bring Sui Generis to life, but as most crowdfunding tales go, they missed the ...