Backbone presents the player with an intriguinging world, populated by interesting characters that drive it’s often depressing and strange story home to what feels like an eventually inevitable conclusion. It’s just a pity that the minute-to-minute gameplay is not only uninspired, but it’s also rather boring.
Developer Ice-Pick Lodge is mostly known for its weirdly excellent Pathologic series but this looks like a completely different direction for the studio.
While the trailer itself is nothing revolutionary, what’s really interesting about the game is how it plans to tell its story.
This might sound paradoxical, but I like to think of myself as being uncreatively imaginative. Which sounds super weird, right? Those are two concepts you’d think are inexplicably linked; the ability to imagine and create. See, I don’t really consider myself all that creative. Which can sting, sure. It’s often praised as a necessary skill for a writer, but I …
I’ve played a great many role-playing games in my years of existence so I’d like to think that I know a thing or two about the genre. Most especially, how truly difficult it can be to effectively play an RPG, which is obviously the point. A well-designed role-playing game should take you out of yourself and into the shoes of …
The development studio which had a messy liquidation last year, laying off all its employees without severance, is being revived by LCG Entertainment. It was a dark day for the games industry when it was announced that Telltale Games was shutting its doors for good in mid-2018. A beloved studio responsible for some of the most well-written adventure games on …
If you missed out on this PC release, feel like a nostalgic romp in a hand-drawn and authentically obscure adventure game, or kinda want to know what it feels like to be a chauvinistic ass-hat who treats women like objects and points, looks like Leisure Suit Larry has you covered on more than one platform this time!
The real-life unsolved case of Jack the Ripper, who spread panic and prostitute entrails across Victorian London, has captured the public imagination for over 130 years. Unsurprisingly, during that period the serial killer story has spawned over a hundred non-fiction books and resulted in just as many fictionalised explorations in popular culture, from novels, short stories and comics to feature …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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