When I think of roguelike games, the first thing that usually springs to mind is a pixelated side-scrolling platformer with a cutesy aesthetic that hides a punishing difficulty. I don’t often jump to an image of a cyberpunk wor...
The middle of the twentieth century was a strange time for those looking to the future, with one angle seeing humanity wiped out in nuclear Armageddon but another positing the colonization of space. Developer Robot Gentleman ha...
I’ve always enjoyed choose-your-own-adventure stories due to the fact that while they have an established structure, you’re able to choose which branch you wish you take, giving you the sensation of having some control over whe...
In the 1990s, the UK had a TV show called Police Camera Action!, a show about traffic police and road crimes. Similar to Cops in the US (though with a little less fetishization of police work), Police Camera Action! attempted t...
There can be a similar approach taken when comparing Yakuza: Like A Dragon’s protagonist Ichiban Kasuga to Kiryu Kazuma to when comparing Like A Dragon to the entries in the main Yakuza series. Both undeniably feel as if they a...
The eternal masters of darkness are seemingly on the rise again in the gaming industry with various gaming genres seeking to get a fanged bite of the action this year. While I have my heart set on one franchise in particular, I...
The year was 2012 and I had my eyes set on two wildly different titles early that year. One was the conclusive chapter in a spacefaring saga and the other was what sounded like an epic fantasy RPG that I couldn’t wait to play. ...
If you ask most people what their preferred superpower would be, chances are the majority of the answers would come back as either invisibility or flight. There is something inherently calming about the thought of being able to...
In most space operas you get the good guys, the bad guys, and those who sit somewhere in-between. This group of characters, the rogues, the smugglers, the pirates, are usually the more interesting faction but are also usually t...