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The irresistible infinity of Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons

November 3, 2018

It’s a refrain that pounds inside my head, driving me onward far past my normal limits of difficulty and sleep deprivation. Deeper. Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons […]

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The Swindle

October 20, 2018

Stealthy steampunk stings on Switch I’ve got $6000 on me and I could leave now via the airship that is parked just outside. Yet behind […]

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Capitalist present, collective future: Labor in Night in the Woods and Tacoma

October 13, 2018

Major spoilers for Tacoma and minor spoilers for Night in the Woods follow in Jacob Geller’s look at the employee’s sometimes unenviable lot – both […]

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Downward Spiral: Horus Station

October 3, 2018

Karl Moon flings himself out of the airlock and into breathless zero G first person VR to take in the atmosphere of Downward Spiral: Horus […]

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Door Kickers: Action Squad

September 28, 2018

Jacob Geller reviews PixelShard‘s Door Kicker: Action Squad. From a detached, design-only perspective, Door Kickers: Action Squad does very little wrong. It’s a pixel-y throwback […]

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Guacamelee! 2

September 21, 2018

Does the sequel to 2013’s Guacamelee! improve upon the original recipe, or is this avocado action underripe? Brian Edwards taste-tests… At the end of Guacamelee! […]

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The Spectrum Retreat

September 20, 2018

An assignment far more sinister than a retro gaming conference, Leah Haydu braves the lobby of The Spectrum Retreat. Hotels are kind of creepy. That’s […]

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A rapturous refrain

August 7, 2018

James Carter harks at the importance of the use of sound in the BioShock games. Listening to the gentle click-clack of my keyboard as I […]

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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

July 13, 2018

Ahead of our podcast later this year, Paul Brown reviews Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice “There is a space I want us to fill. Common […]

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Grand Theft Auto IV: Perhaps this time things will be different

June 15, 2018

David Rushe finds returning to Rockstar’s decade-old Grand Theft Auto IV surprisingly refreshing. It was ten years ago that I did two things for the […]