Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy devs learned to make melee combat on the job
Give me a game where I can hoof an enemy over the side of the cliff like a cut price Leonidas, and I'm happy. (It seems I'm not the only…
“It’s not ‘how many enemies can I shoot'”: Yes, you have a gun in Gen Atlas, but Fumito Ueda doesn’t want you to think it’s a shooter
Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and the Last Guardian, showed off his new game at this weekend's Summer Game Fest showcase. Gen Atlas sees you step…
Just like Luftrausers before it, Wind Runners is proving I’m too careless a pilot to survive a bullet-hell dogfight
I've been a fan of dogfighting games since playing Elite with my dad on his old Acorn computer. He'd do the flying and I'd fire the weapons. Maybe that division…
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown’s demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn’t last a day in RimWorld
Offworld settlement builders delight in forcing their pebble-gathering, ore-hoarding colonists into a life of subsistence scrounging by way of disaster: a crashed spaceship or cryogenic malfunction leaving them no choice…
Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs
Alkimia Interactive and THQ's Gothic remake launched over the weekend, and many are the complaints that the RPG's revised lockpicking system is far too hard. I know, right - tricky…
Stealth’s been replaced with scrappy swordfighting in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, but what I really miss are the rat swarms
I've never mastered the combat of Sekiro and Sifu. They're games that demand you recognise an incoming attack and match it with millisecond perfect parries and dodges. Success sees you…