A game about building and rebuilding an impossible mansion is also a game about our relationship to the places we live in. One of the things video games do really well is absence - specifically recent absence. Dump me into a game world and give me enough clues
5th April Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie gets his starchiest white shirt on and descends into the corporate purgatory of The Stanley Parable, cleansing him
I don't think Severance would necessarily make a good video game, but every episode I watch makes me think about games. More specifically, it makes me realise what games do better than every other medium. Disorientation: it's a major theme in Severance. From t
Riven developer Cyan Worlds has cut its staff count by half. In a statement posted to social media, the Washington studio - perhaps best known for the Myst series - said "despite its best efforts", "industry conditions" had forced it into a "tricky spot [where
Psychological RPG Disco Elysium is set to come to mobile devices courtesy of original studio ZA/UM in a "reimagined" form. The aim of this adaptation is to make the game accessible for mobile devices and playable in short bursts. "We intend to captivate the Ti
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will cost £70/$70/€80 for the standard edition and $230 for the collector's edition, according to a new leak, with "several physical editions" also teased. What, exactly, that collector's edition includes has yet to be detailed,
Have you ever had to admit to your boss that your gun got stolen because you were distracted writing poetry with your former childhood friends at the local discotheque? Sounds like a really bad day at work, right? It was actually an incredible scene I got to p
At first glance, The Horror at Highrook seems like a game of supernatural Cluedo. As a team of investigators arrive at a spooky manor, you're presented with a top-down floor plan of the mansion, and some player cards representing your intrepid explorers. But y
21st February Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing this week. This week, Tom O chickens out of the Dead Space Remake because it made his baby gate scary, which is an odd thing to t