by Joel Couture | Jun 16, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
NES Hard Gets NES Harder Many developers aspire to ‘NES Hard’ – that familiar brutality that many grew up with. A Hole New World definitely falls into that category, but with the added twist of having to play some segments upside-down. Demons and monsters have...
by Elias Blondeau | May 14, 2017 | 90+, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Slow-Simmered Horror Perfection The first Outlast was something of a critical darling. Many viewed it as a revolutionary horror game with a unique setting and novel premise. As a lifelong survival horror nut, though, I walked away from it with a feeling of...
by Holly Jane Amareta | May 6, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Tron and Bulletstorm’s Steamy Lovechild Desync is, first and foremost, a supremely awesome looking and sounding game. Heavy synths and neon colours are the order of the day here, and I am totally into it. Think 1980s/ early 1990s condensed into a single art...
by Alon Lessel | Apr 24, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
GOODD: Jizz In My Pants At one point in my last run of GRIDD: Retroenhanced before starting work on this review, I was on top of the world. My weapons were fully upgraded, my shields were up, and my score was rocketing sky-high. I was on a roll. Then a meteor shower...
by Joel Couture | Apr 16, 2017 | 80s, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
Snaky Slithering Makes For A Scintillating Experience Snake Pass makes movement the star of its platforming experience. By having players act like a snake, they’ll slither and twist up various surfaces and bamboo ladders, clambering around stages using the...
by Devin White | Apr 11, 2017 | 90+, Features, Full Reviews, Gems, Reviews
All is F-Air in Love and Smash Super Smash Bros. has an fascinating relationship with its community. When Melee came out, it introduced a host of techniques, some intentional but many not, that gave the game a huge amount of depth, and eventually players found those...
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