PLAY Magazine UK
THE THAUMATURGE
Sick of games being happy and fun? We have great news!
2 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Little Goody Two Shoes
Finding evil by moonlight, winning games by daylight
2 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD
A nightmare on Elmo street
2 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
DRAGON'S DOGMA 2
Because wyvern not?
3 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
THE ALTERS
Your own worst enemy
2 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Where the Dragon Of Dojima isn't the Dragon Of Dojima
4 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Persona 5 Tactica
The Phantom Thieves exchange covert ops for... tactical warfare?
4 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Jumping into the PlayStation Portal
Sony's new Remote Play handheld is built of the right stuff, but is the idea sound?
4 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Critical success
Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps Golden Joysticks, earning an armful of glittering awards
1 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Stuffed to the ghillies with issues, COD is looking battered
4 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
STAR WARS OUTLAWS
Shooting first
1 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
SPIRIT OF THE NORTH 2
Fox goes mything in action
1 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
RoboCop: Rogue City
Did they fix everything?
2 min |
January 2024
PLAY Magazine UK
CROW COUNTRY
You'd have to be bird-brained to miss this one
4 min |
January 2024
GameOn Magazine
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.
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
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.
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
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.
2 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
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.
9 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
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.
4 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
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?
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Diaries Part Four
This is my exploration of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed where I will chronicle my playthrough like a text-based Let's Play. This time I continue Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
5 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
Moonlight Peaks
It's no secret that I am absolutely obsessed with spooky themes (what with my name being Spooky_0ne everywhere I sign up!), so when I found out there was a life sim game coming out with vampires, witches, potions, nightshades, etc.... Well, I kind of lost my mind from excitement! Thankfully, the team over at Little Chicken gave me the fantastic opportunity to interview them.
7 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
Revisiting Ocarina of Time 25 Years After Its Release
I have a bad habit of coming back to the same things for years. It's evident as I just watch the same five shows and continue to come back to the same old games; this is why it wasn't shocking to me when my wife suggested we revisit one of my childhood favourites —The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
Hidden Gem Insaniquarium Deluxe
Insaniquarium Deluxe is an aquarium simulator… I think? It’s an incredibly odd title, and it’s very difficult to fit into any single genre, yet it is still somehow one of the games which defined my childhood. I would assume many people born within the early 2000s have played this, but aside from my generation, I haven't heard much talk about this gem.
2 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
10 Lies of P Tips & Tricks to Get You Through Krat
Despite its humble origin story of a puppet who seeks to become a true boy,Lies Of P is anything but humble... or nice. Truthfully speaking, as a soulslike experience, it had me screeching and crying at various points where I wished Pinocchio would just turn into a wooden puppet and die... permanently. Though despite the flack I give the title for its oft-tedious boss design, I loved my time with it, and to help you feel less frustrated and irritated by it, here are 10 tips & tricks to get you started in your journey to save Krat from the Puppet Frenzy!
6 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
I Can't Believe Volition Is Gone
Back in 1999, I played a game called Freespace 2. It was a game about spaceships fighting other spaceships, with massive capital ships lighting up space with great big space laser beams. Honestly, I just wanted to play a spaceship game that wasn’t the demo of STAR WARS - X-Wing that I occasionally messed about in. It was developed by Volition, but I was 16 so I didn’t really take note of that name. All I knew was that I adored Freespace 2, even without playing Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War first.
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
How the Unity Scandal Could Affect Your Favourite Upcoming Games
Recently, Unity — a very famous videogame engine that has been used to create many masterpieces — underwent a massive scandal over its new upcoming pricing practices. In a post announcing an increase in price and a runtime fee, what might have seemed harmless for some and those unaware of the situation became a scandal for many developers and a potential threat for some of the most anticipated upcoming games.
3 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
From the Top - God of War Part 4
In this mini-series, I have been going through my own little labours by playing through the mainline God of War games (with the addition of God of War Ascension) that precede the 2018 soft reboot of the same name. My goal, simply enough, is to figure out who the main character, Kratos, is and how he goes from a man angry enough to squeeze diamonds out of coal with his frown alone to the slightly-less-angry but responsible father figure we see now. If this is your first time joining me on my journey, I recommend starting from the top to get the full experience! But without further ado, let us dive into the final leg of this Sisyphean quest and explore the final title, God of War III.
10+ min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
The Crew Motorfest
The Crew is a series I’m very familiar with; since its inception back in 2014 I’ve spent countless hours driving across the scaled down versions of mainland America. For the third entry into Ubisoft’s open-world racer series, The Crew Motorfest takes players to Hawaii, focusing instead on a much denser, detailed environment rather than the scaled down ‘Murica. Whilst not as drastic a tonal shift as The Crew 2 was from its predecessor, can Motorfest provide an enjoyable cruise through one of the world's most beautiful locations?
4 min |
Issue 169 - November 2023
GameOn Magazine
Astrea: Six Sided Oracles
Astrea: Six Sided Oracles is a deck-building roguelike with noticeable inspiration from Slay The Spire. Despite this inspiration, however, it manages to hold its own incredibly well, even going so far as potentially being one of my favourite deck-builders of all time.
4 min |