Ascendant Studios has been keeping a secret – a big one. Formed five years ago, they’ve been quietly working diligently on their first game, Immortals of Aveum. Announced at The Game Awards late last year, nobody expected this game to arrive any time soon. Well, surprise! Not only is gameplay

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was an absolute triumph, providing a excellent story, combined with elements from quite a few equally great games. Combining a Soulslike-lite combat system with a Metroid exploration and map system proved to be a tasty combination – something I extolled at length in my review. Respawn

GDC was incredibly busy, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time to check out some cool games while we were there. I had the chance to sit down with Artur Grochowski from 11 bit Studios to talk about their investigative thriller, The Thaumaturge. An isometric story-based RPG

I will be the first to admit that I am drawn into a game’s aesthetic to a fault, at times. That the way a game looks can sometimes override concerns of how it might play. The allure of deluxe components or metal coins; these things are utter catnip to

We take another deep dive into the mechanics of An Age Contrived, this time with the player board/transmuter device. The transmuter device is the primary means by which players interact with the game- how they take their turns. In this video, we go over the five action tiles on

After finishing the last available mission in the Diablo IV beta, I sat back in my chair mindlessly looking at the map as if I were looking in my refrigerator hoping for food I could snack on to magically appear. I devoured everything. Like the various NPCs stricken by Lilith’

In An Age Contrived, players take on the roles of gods ruling over the realm of Eldranir, influencing the mortal tribes to construct enduring structures in their honor. Building these monuments piece by piece and how you use your energy tokens afterwards represents some of the most crucial mechanics of

2020’s Coffee Talk was a cozy visual novel about an alternate reality Seattle, chronicling the lives of the titular cafe’s patrons. It was chill, thought provoking and, despite lacking traditional choices, had quite a lot of variance in how the story could play out. Now in 2023 we’