Category: video games
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Rez Infinite on Steam
Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Rez Infinite came out on Steam for Windows recently. It’s the classic music shooter from the PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast updated with a new area. Rez Infinite supports, but doesn’t require, a VR HMD and is already on the PlayStation 4. The Windows version on Steam is $25 while the PS4 Rez Infinite…
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SuperHot Review
The first time I saw SuperHot, it was a simpler game for the 7-Day FPS game jam. Although it was simple, it demonstrated a singular, sound, question: What if there were a first-person-shooter that was more of a puzzle than a game about reflexes? Time in the game only moves when your character moves. The…
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Subsurface Circular
Mike Bithell, of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame, surprised everyone by announcing a game and releasing it on the same day. Subsurface Circular promises a new text-based adventure investigator to discover the reason why robots are disappearing in this underground subway mystery. Subsurface Circular is a short game, but it’s also pretty inexpensive for…
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Nidhogg 2 Day
Couch 1v1 stab-em-up Nidhogg 2 is out today. I loved the first game’s vaguely Atari 2600-era graphics. This one appears to have a “Weird ass SNES” style going on, complete with a Yoshi’s Island world map and online multiplayer. So close! #Nidhogg2 launches Aug15th on #PlayStation4 https://t.co/z8yihneTwU and #Steam https://t.co/VMVKlQsg2i Preorder for a discount! pic.twitter.com/D94FzxxhCA…
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West of Loathing
About 14 years ago a game called Kingdom of Loathing sprang out of the wacky mind of Zack Johnson. Kingdom is a free, wacky, online browser-based RPG with goofy hand-drawn stick figures, and funny as hell. It’s been so long since I played that I can’t even remember what email address I ever used to…