The games industry is built on sequels. They have been around since before a sequel meant adding a bow to the main character and changing its honorific – I’m looking at you Ms. Pac-man. Traditionally, two types of sequels have ...
2012 was a banner year for stealth games. From January up through December, we got to play a healthy variety of games involving dozens of different types of sneaking, skulking, lurking, and sklurking. (It’s a thing.) You ...
This has got to be agonizing. DreamQuest games wasn’t looking for an insane amount of money when they put their planned game, Alpha Colony up on Kickstarter. All they wanted was $50,000 to develop the exploration, buildin...
Why? Because Stefano Chiechi of Stealth Cosplay has spent the last couple of months building himself an impressive War Machine suit. He’s been detailing his progress at his YouTube site since October, and has just unleash...
I never saw this on a shelf as kid. I know this, because if I had, I’d have bought it. RPS’ Alec Meer has just put down the paperback adaptation of Microprose’s 1994 strategy classic X-Com: UFO Defense (or UFO...
I don’t care how much debt you have incurred to expand your Star Wars toy collection, Jambe Davdar is still a bigger fan than you are. Over the past couple of years Davdar has created the documentaries Star Wars Begins, B...
If someone sat me down and presented me with this gorgeous Technicolor dream of a world building-game called Patterns and then asked me what company was responsible for creating it, I could have guessed for hours and never gott...
Nintendo has a reputation for – the odd dodgy hinge aside – building sturdy, reliable hardware. As you’d expect, given the battery of tests they put their handheld systems through. But that’s lab science...
Last year’s Anomaly Warzone Earth flipped the tower defence genre on its head, putting you in the shoes of the guys trying to get past the powers, instead of the guys building them. It was, to keep things brief, brilliant...