Category: Reviews
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Inkle’s new game The Forever Labyrinth is Google Arts and Culture’s most ambitious experiment yet
Inkle’s done it again. The UK-based company is one of my personal favorite studios – Heaven’s Vault, their space-boating archaeology sim, is arguably the most profound gaming experience I’ve had. The studio is just as comfortable working in an adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days as they are in murder-mysteries, Arthurian…
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Blasphemous miraculously captures an obscure part of history
When I first started playing Blasphemous (the 2019 debut game from Spanish developer The Game Kitchen), I was immediately stunned by the visuals but not for the level of “realism” that other games are praised for. The graphics themselves are beautifully detailed in a pixelized art style, but that was not the reason this game…
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Skull and bones is shaping up to be a completely forgettable history game
The development of Skull and Bones is basically a historical epic unto itself. The development has been legendarily troubled, and even now, a mere few weeks before the Pirate-Simulator-MMO is meant to launch, there are still signs of major reworks. As far the gameplay goes – it’s Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag but with more…
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Age of Empires IV: Sultan’s ascend – Historical review
By Quinn Bouabsa Marriott We called them the Franks. In unreckoned number, horse and foot, lord and commoner alike, they crossed the threshold to the east with a lust for war and plunder. Their ambition: to seize the holy city of Jerusalem…and all Bilad al-Sham beyond. […] These pages tell the story of our struggle,…
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