I was a massive Rugrats kid growing up (massive in terms of intensity, I was pretty small), as well as being a PlayStation fiend, so some of my fondest early gaming memories come from playing the various Rugrats licensed titles that were available on the PS1. I recall spending countless hours hunting down every last […]
There are quite a few parallels to be drawn between certain flavours of rogue-ish video game and the psychological tricks used to compel human beings into habitual gambling. And there are certainly many folks much smarter than I am offering insight and conducting research into the how, why, and whether or not we should be
It’s been a full four years since TT Games gave us LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and while LEGO has, in that time, experimented with various other ways to deliver a LEGO video game, it’s great to be back in the hands of the studio that really shifted the paradigm starting with 2005’s LEGO
Two Point Museum is without a doubt the strongest entry in Two Point Studios’ run of delightfully-silly management sims so far, and it’s one that I’ve been yearning to revisit ever since seeing out everything it had to offer at launch. While there has already been some new content added to the game between then
It’s been said that there are no original stories left; that every narrative we get now is simply at worst a retread or at best a remix of what came before. None of that really matters if the execution is good, but that can’t always be the case. These potential pitfalls are felt more sharply
Summerhouse is one of those rare little gems that I’ll always return to on PC, content to while away a bit of time and unwind between the stresses of real life, building tiny buildings in this tiny game. Sometimes, though, the idea of trudging downstairs to my office and firing up my desktop just for
When I was in high school, living in a hilly and tree-lined suburb just outside of metropolitan Perth, a group of friends and I found an abandoned house. Well, less a house than a whole mansion, obscured by overgrowth, caked in dust and mould – in hindsight probably incredibly unsafe – and even sporting an
Though I’d argue the series has never fully nailed its vision, there’s a reason that so many continue to be drawn to the Little Nightmares games. The horror equation in these horror-puzzle-platformers has always been flimsy at best, each entry a slideshow of classically-spooky environments ruled by a catalogue of Monsters™, but it largely works
