Surgeon Simulator 2013 lets us gleefully smash a comatose patient’s ribcage into bite sized pieces with a surgical hammer and dislodge his organs with a sterilised power drill before carelessly flopping a healthy donor transplant – along with a cheap digital watch and several shards from a shattered beaker – into the mangled cavity. Read More »
Like contemporary westernised Chinese cuisine, Weird Worlds combines the exotic and the familiar into an affordable package designed with an emphasis on ease of access to make a satisfying end product which is sure to be enjoyed by all but the most banal of people. Read More »
At first glance, tile matching games and role playing games seem to be an odd sort of mix. After all, the former is all about bright colours, quick gameplay and instant gratification, whereas the latter revolves around gradually and meticulously building up your character as you wade through dank, poorly-lit caves and dungeons. Read More »
Comparing Diablo against Fallout is like, to use a tired old saying, comparing apples to oranges. The former is an action oriented RPG with a heavy emphasis on fast paced combat, whereas the latter was an exclusively single player role playing experience. In order to compare these two acclaimed series, it becomes necessary to focus on their common gameplay denominator: that they are both role playing games. Read More »
Did you know that your computer’s operating system and software is actually an interconnected series of nodes and warehouse-like structures populated by floating sphere thingies and all joined together by a network of labyrinthic passageways. Well Cadenza Interactive is here to set the record straight with Retrovirus. Read More »
When I saw a consignment of Euro Truck Simulator 2 being backed into the digital loading docks of Steam’s online store I immediately dug out my best tattered blue wife-beater and took a short jaunt to the local pharmacy for a bottle of those over-the-counter, totally legal, wake-up pills. Now all I need is a gigantic, unkempt beard and a two-way radio call sign. Read More »
Two dollars doesn’t buy you much more than a sad looking McDonald’s hamburger or a roll of no-brand cling wrap from Hot Dollar these days. Thankfully, for those of us seeking a thrifty source of entertainment, the burgeoning independent games industry swings to the rescue with its readily accessible range of cheap, simple to play games. Dead Pixels is such a game. Read More »
Eleven years ago, Cortex Command (CC) was a nascent twinkle in Swedish independent games programmer Dan “DaTa” Tabar’s eyes. Now after long last, DaTa’s magnum opus is finally ready to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting gaming public. Read More »
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