Category: video games

  • Heat Signature Out on Steam

    Tom Francis, the former game journalist, has been developing games for what is now a surprisingly long time. His team’s first big (in indie terms) game launch was a stealth puzzle side-scroller called Gunpoint. It was universally praised and it was also pretty funny. Francis and co are back with Heat Signature (this URL is…

  • Cloth Map Tours Chernobyl & Goes to Eurovision

    After visiting a Ukrainian nuclear missile base, Drew Scanlon of the Cloth Map travel documentary series, has visited the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Chernobyl. If you’d like something more uplifting after watching that, take a look at Scanlon’s trip to Eurovision:  

  • A Robot Named Fight Review (Windows)

    Matt Bitner’s A Robot Named Fight feels like it might be the answer to a question: What if a third-party developer had made a Super Metroid style of game for Sega’s Genesis console? Here’s the concept: You’re a robot, you fight some meat-monsters until your remains are tossed on a heap of other robots that…

  • Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! is Out on Steam

    Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! (that is the actual name of the game) was delayed but is now available for your restauranteering contentment. Or extreme frustration, you know, whichever emotion you feel when you have pressure on you to perform a series of cooking tasks. I love this kind of game, but as I wrote in…

  • Nintendo Promises More Stock of Classic Editions

    Nintendo put out a press release announcing that they would both manufacture more NES Classic Editions this coming summer, 2018, as well as making more Super NES Classic Editions available at launch on September 29th than they had shipped of the NES CE all last year. It’s good that Nintendo are finally going to potentially thwart…