CATEGORIES

"Jak II proves Naughty Dog doesn't need realism to make great characters."

Jak is every bit as real as later Naughty Dog protagonists

The Invincible

The planet Regis III is one of the most gorgeous videogame locations of the year. Its lush orange deserts look hand-painted, its starry skyboxes truly justify the word awesome, and the [SPOILER REDACTED] you discover there are truly, thrillingly alien. What an unmitigated triumph of art design and direction! Shame about the game.

Growing a backbone

Nekki's Dmitry Pimenov on how you're being empowered in cyberpunk superhero beat-'em-up Spine

Once more, with 4K

The Last Of Us Part II will finally make its PS5 debut

PERSONA 3 RELOAD

High school never ends

TEKKEN 8

Bandai Namco is definitely Tekken things seriously

Thirsty Suitors

RPG fan? Consider yourself quenched

PAW PATROL

The strange Dog's Life is unforgettable for many - Andrew Gillett tells Lex Luddy just what was going on with Frontier's bizarre platformer

LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH

Yakuza gets a beach episode

SAGA EMERALD BEYOND

Going beyonds worlds and the timeline

THE THAUMATURGE

Sick of games being happy and fun? We have great news!

Little Goody Two Shoes

Finding evil by moonlight, winning games by daylight

MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD

A nightmare on Elmo street

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2

Because wyvern not?

THE ALTERS

Your own worst enemy

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

Where the Dragon Of Dojima isn't the Dragon Of Dojima

Persona 5 Tactica

The Phantom Thieves exchange covert ops for... tactical warfare?

Jumping into the PlayStation Portal

Sony's new Remote Play handheld is built of the right stuff, but is the idea sound?

Critical success

Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps Golden Joysticks, earning an armful of glittering awards

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III

Stuffed to the ghillies with issues, COD is looking battered

STAR WARS OUTLAWS

Shooting first

SPIRIT OF THE NORTH 2

Fox goes mything in action

RoboCop: Rogue City

Did they fix everything?

CROW COUNTRY

You'd have to be bird-brained to miss this one

The Itch.io Chronicles Haunted PS1: Part 2

Welcome back to The Itch.io Chronicles, where today we'll be taking another dive into the first entry of the Haunted PS1 Demo Disk. I'll cover another four titles in this piece: Filthbreed, In Somnio, Dread Delusion, and Erasure.

Farmer's Father: Save The Innocence

I had the opportunity to preview the survival videogame Farmer's Father: Save the Innocence. Prequel to the farming simulator Farmer's Life, you play as the former protagonist’s father as he, his wife, and baby child try to survive 1945 East Europe. The game begins with the Axis forces marching on your front door, forcing the three of you to flee your burning home to the safety of a nearby bunker. Once safely inside, you sleep the night off, now alone during the middle of winter. In the bunker you’ll find: a rifle with 10 rounds of ammunition, a bunk bed, a single lamp resting on a table, a working fireplace/oven, and a chest where you put all of the provisions and items.

Tevi

TEVI is a bullet-hell metroidvania, developed by Crespirit and was an utter joy to play. Full of fascinating systems, fluid combat, and some fantastic world-building, TEVI is a very interesting title.

Baldur's Gate 3

Through a litany of modern games mired by microtransactions and shifty live-service releases emerges a shining beacon of light: Baldur's Gate 3. Your buddies at work are talking about it; your favourite Discord servers are awash with videos about it; heck, even Grandma and her bridge club are wittering away about it (probably). The game has quickly become a cultural phenomenon and with my playtime knocking the three-digit mark, I finally feel ready to evaluate my adventure through Faerûn — so let’s dive in.

Gunbrella

Sometimes, a game title tells you everything you need to know about that game in just a word; Gunbrella is an amazing example of this. If you’ve ever had thoughts of becoming a lethal Mary Poppins, this is the game for you. The developers at Doinksoft have you playing as a quiet woodsman, decked out in a brown bowler hat and a long white scarf whose life has taken a tragic turn. At the beginning of the game, we see him out gathering mushrooms. In the distance, we see a wooden cabin covered in flames, this is our woodsman’s home. He runs there as fast as he can, and runs into the burning building. Alas, it’s too late to save his wife. She has been killed.

MythForce

MythForce seems like the videogame version of all those cartoons you loved as a kid, like He-Man or She-Ra. The game even has its own animated intro and theme song! I was so excited to start playing once I saw this. It was apparent that a lot of time and love went into this intro, so they must have put this much work in, but can it live up?