One time, many many years ago, I remember asking my mom for some change to give to a homeless man we just passed on the street. He was so happy and thanked me profusely, and I’m not ashamed to say that I was almost as happy as he was. For some reason, that memory has…
I had barely recovered from the Winter steam sale that here they go again with a new one! Well, this time I’m sticking to my guns and I won’t buy anything, or at least try to. Let’s go with the usual mix of genres and indie classics and relative unknown titles. CITIZENS OF EARTH Have…
WELCOME BACK, MY PRETTIES Welcome to part 2 of the death and rebirth of adventure games. We’ve already celebrated the funeral so, now, we’re going to see how adventure gaming slowly comes back to life, shambling et al. We will focus on 2001-2009, the period when things will start to be set in stone for…
This week I went way back with nostalgia, maybe a little too far back that I almost couldn’t come back out! Well, it’s been the usual sort of collage of different genres (VERY different) and experiences so, hang on tight and remember to avoid feeding the monster. TIS-100 I’m almost hesitant to call this one…
I’ve had a chance to talk with Luca Dalcò, main designer of the Town of Light, developed by LKA studios about the success of his first game and his plans for the future. In the article wou will find some photos of Volterra asylum’s abandoned cemetery which I took myself several years ago. The original…
This week I played a whole bunch of stuff that I’m still chugging through. So, to change things up a bit, in this issue I’m gonna showcase a game I didn’t like and two I can heavily recommend if you’re in the right mindset. STRAIMIUM IMMORTALY A shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler? Gesundheit! Straimium is one of…
IF I WAS A GAMER… BUT THEN AGAIN, NO In my teen years adventure games were my favourite genre for two critical reasons: they were genuinely the funniest out of them all and the only games where characters and story always came first. In most other genres story was, most of the time, an afterthought.…
The winter sale on Steam is finally over! Phew! So, we go back with our regularly scheduled programming. I’ll confess to not having bought many games during that last sale, but I have such a backlog to still get through that I didn’t really feel the need to add fuel to the fire. So, without…