Subset Games’ 2018 kaiju puzzle game might seem simple, but a couple of hours with it show immense depth beneath the cute pixel art and grid-based battles. Not to mention if you play it for, […]
Features
This is where you’ll find all our written features such as opinions pieces and reviews
Luigi fears
After all his ghostly encounters and triumphs, why is Luigi still such a chicken? A clinical psychologist explains. For the last few weeks, I’ve been playing Luigi’s Mansion 3 in co-op with my five-year-old daughter. […]
Sunset
A strange, irreverent, opening gambit, but follow me on this. Since childhood, I’ve had an infrequent, recurring, abstract nightmare that’s laughable to others and chilling to me. Here goes… in essence, I am the paddle […]
Ultracore
Leon gets to grips with DICE’s abandoned ‘Eurostyle’ run and gunner, which has emerged blinking into the light after more than 25 years I’ll admit that the legend of Ultracore had pretty much passed me […]
CrossCode
Brian Edwards reviews CrossCode, the action role-playing game developed by Radical Fish Games. Every time I watch a YouTube video titled “Top 65 Upcoming Indie Games” or something these days I’m relatively certain that I am going […]
Sekiro travelogue: Visiting landmarks featured in FromSoftware’s magical realism version of Japan
Jon Cheetham followed the trails of Sekiro and gained a deeper appreciation for the depth of From Software’s magical realism Sengoku masterpiece NB: Major story spoilers for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice follow From Software’s challenging, […]
STONE
Not everyone drinks. I do. While I’ve definitely had my moments of overindulgence, though, I can’t say that I’ve ever had a ‘morning after’ that started with a missing person. Maybe that just means I’m […]
Come out to play: 1970s NYC gang culture and the origin of beat ‘em up iconography
When Technos brought their pioneering Yoshihisa Kishimoto designed 1986 beat ‘em up Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun overseas, they changed its name to Renegade and altered the game’s graphics quite drastically, from representing a very local Japanese […]
Blog of the year 2019
It’s the end of another year and it is time for Klax. Oh, wait, that’s not right. Let’s try this again. It’s the end of the year, and I asked members of the Cane and […]
The sound of silence
When Michel Hazanavicius’ award-winning black and white silent film The Artist arrived in cinemas in 2011, audiences were captivated by this wordless wonder. The film’s protagonist, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) the leading light in the […]
Jesse Faden, my mother, and the search for Control
Control opens with Jesse Faden entering the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a mysterious organization that she has a long history with. Her connection to this organization is significant, but the player is not quite […]
PAX West 2019
From 30th August 2019 through to 2nd September 2019 at the Washington State Convention Centre and Cane and Rinse hosts Ryan Hamann and Chris O’Regan attended the event, both of whom are veterans of it. […]