With its cover-based shooting, varied enemy types, and bombastic tone, the Gears franchise is a great fit for the tactics genre. The world and the feel of combat both remain intact in this transition to turn-based warfare. With a focus on characters and story, plus a sense of speed and flexibility in battle, Gears Tactics […]
Best of the banter – Supercars Eseries Round 2
Check out some of our favourite bits of banter between the Supercars aces, and Formula 1 star Max Verstappen, from the second round of the category’s Eseries. Once again, a variety of Twitch streams and the central radio channel linking all drivers provided some brilliant behind-the-scenes insight into the official virtual Supercars series. Here are […]
Bleeding Edge Review – Exchanging Weak Punches
Bleeding Edge is a unique 4v4 competitive experience that shows a little flash in its third-person approach, but doesn’t deliver much of a punch in combat or enough variation in its match types and maps. Developer Ninja Theory draws clear inspiration from Blizzard’s Overwatch, delivering similar hero-focused play, with each teammate playing a critical role […]
Opinion – Gaming Is An Important Social Connection Right Now, And We Should Make It A Good One
Nobody needs another place to dwell on the challenges facing the world in the face of a health epidemic, so I’ll skip right past the obvious. It’s enough to acknowledge that, while everyone reading this is likely united in a shared love of games, we also share a much broader connection right now, being forced […]
Bleeding Edge Review – Exchanging Weak Punches
Bleeding Edge is a unique 4v4 competitive experience that shows a little flash in its third-person approach, but doesn’t deliver much of a punch in combat or enough variation in its match types and maps. Developer Ninja Theory draws clear inspiration from Blizzard’s Overwatch, delivering similar hero-focused play, with each teammate playing a critical role […]
Nioh 2 review – dark yokai souls
Team Ninja’s follow-up to the best Dark Souls game never made offers even better combat than before, but is there enough change We feel a bit sorry for Nioh 2. Its predecessor was released in 2017 and was widely praised as the best Dark Souls clone so far. It didn’t seem to do tremendously well […]
Murder By Numbers review – the Picross killer
A mash-up between Phoenix Wright and Picross nonograms is the unlikely concept behind this new indie murder mystery. We’ve always loved picross. Also known as nonograms, they’re a common subject for video games and there’s always been a lot of them on portable consoles and smartphones. They’re not usually the sort of thing we can […]
GI Show – Everything We Know About Animal Crossing And Will Coronavirus Cancel E3?
On this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, I am joined by Dan “The Jacket” Tack, Jeff Cork, and Leo Vader to discuss Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Valorant, and whether we think the coronavirus will cancel E3. We finish with the always entertaining and enlightening community emails. Thanks for listening! Please make sure to leave feedback below, share the episode […]
Top Of The Table – Vindication
Just because a game offers a fun play experience, it doesn’t always necessarily follow that it holds up to repeated replay. Board game developers must wrestle with that challenge at every step of the creation process. A big surprise element of play in the first game can be wonderful, but that same dynamic can feel […]