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Airships: Conquer the Skies – Steam Early Access Preview
It’s difficult to define what genre Airships: Conquer the Skies fits into. It’s a side-profile view game of tactical combat at its core, with a strategic level of shipbuilding, and fleet customization on top. It’s graphically old school, a pixel-based labor of love built largely by a single developer for the past five years.
Legends of Aria – Open World MMORPG Preview
You know a game developer has an interesting sense of humor when they lead off their meeting invitation emails with a meme. That’s a bold move (Cotton), and they’d better be able to deliver. Fortunately, Legends of Aria has a lot to be proud of, and looks poised to carve a sustainable niche in the MMORPG market.
Lord of the Rings LCG Digital Hands On PAX East 2018
A few years ago I came across Fantasy Flight Games’ Lord of the Rings LCG (Living Card Game, is a format of card games with an expanding card pool that is not randomized. Yet the elements of building customized decks is still the core element, but without the gambling aspect of collecting cards that are rarer than others). It drew my attention as it featured one of my favorite fantasy series and u...[Read More]
Runner3 PAX East Preview
It’s been nearly five years since Bit.Trip Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien returned the unique rhythm platforming action of CommanderVideo to screens around the globe. Since then, the development studio has changed its name from Gaijin Games to Choice Provisions Inc., and branched out into a series of casual games, mostly developed under the MiniVisions label. But the wait is almo...[Read More]
City of the Shroud PAX Preview
When I sat down for my demo of City of the Shroud, I really didn’t know what to expect. As an isometric RPG, it’s poised to take a position in the ranks of classically-styled RPG games that have begun coming out in the past few years. Beginning with Pillars of Eternity, the genre has been experiencing a renaissance in the past few years; a pretty amazing turn around for a game style that was decla...[Read More]
Sinner Sacrifice PAX Hands On Preview.
For all the players hankering for a Dark Souls 4, or a Bloodborne 2, Another Indie and Dark Star Game Studios are providing a game to quell said hankering. Their game Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption, is a boss battler that is quite similar to the caliber of Dark Souls or Bloodborne. It is similar in both play style, as well as the gothic horror art components that make these games so memorable, a...[Read More]
Horizon Chase Turbo PAX Hands-On Preview
Being only the tender age of 19, I am too young to feel adequate nostalgia for the 80s and 90s racing games. I can, however, recognize a beautiful game when I see one. Which is exactly what Horizon Chase Turbo by Aquiris Game Studios is. Drawing from games like Out Run, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Top Gear (SNES), and Rush, Horizon Chase Turbo seeks to resurrect and reinvent that classic era of racing....[Read More]
Chasm PAX East Hands-On Preview
Back in the days of my youth, I would spend a lot of days on sites like Miniclip, Nitrome, or OneMoreLevel. It was on those sites that I first encountered the pixel art style in gaming. Before that point, I had only come across them in arcades and other such establishments. And yet, I was hooked. I spent countless days fettering my summer afternoons in devotion to these pixel arcade games.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance PAX East Preview
Whoever says that history is boring needs to play Warhorse Studio’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance. From what we saw at PAX East, this experience brought to the PC, PS4, and XBox One will almost certainly change their tune. Most of us have only had the past presented to us in hyper-condensed textbooks intended to get the bare minimum of necessary information crammed into our skulls. What that type of h...[Read More]
YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG Impressions from PAX East
Y2K. For a time in 1999, these three characters could strike dread into the hearts of millions, possibly billions of people. Banking computers would forget their data. Air traffic control would go dark. Electric grids would fail! It was a doomsday scenario that everyone was going to live through, because the one that can never, ever be stopped is the inexorable march of time. Now Ysbryd Games is b...[Read More]
Spiritsphere DX PAX East Preview
Fabraz, the developer behind Slime-San, was at PAX East with Spiritsphere DX. Fabraz has worked with the developer Eendhoorn Games to bring an enhanced version of Spiritsphere to the Nintendo Switch. Take traditional air hockey or tennis, throw in some retro graphics, and add some magical beat downs. That’s the formula at play here. It creates a game that is easy to pick up with minimal learning c...[Read More]
My Memory of Us PAX East Hands-On Preview
Perhaps my favorite game at PAX this year was My Memory of Us by Juggler Games. Taking place under Nazi occupation, the player takes the controls as a tag team little boy and girl. In spite of possessing the adult themes of the Holocaust, My Memory of Us manages to make this game that is suitable for almost all ages. By replacing actual Nazis with “Bad Robots” they create an adventure puzzler that...[Read More]