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Before We Leave is a city-builder with planet-devouring space whales

11 5 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

City-builders aren’t usually my jam, but Before We Leave has planet-devouring space whales. It’s a “mostly non-violent” game about helping colonies hop between cute little planets, building wooden spaceships and salvaging ancient tech. It came out last week in early access, and everything about it looks soothing. Apart from the whales. Obvs.

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Colonel Croesus: Turn 10

11 5 月, 2020 Tim Stone 0

The Crab Club, Wikipedia informs me, is a bally exclusive establishment. As the taxonomists on the door are reluctant to admit hermit and king “crabs”, the pair of mine thrashers currently leading the Comment Commanders’ subterranean gold rush, have precious little chance of gaining admittance. (Colonel Croesus is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Fortress […]

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Tonight We Riot is an unashamedly political protest brawler

10 5 月, 2020 Natalie Clayton 0

Shadowy oligarchs control the media, politics is riddled with corruption, the rich get richer and the poor go broke. It all sounds ridiculous, I know, but such is the premise of Tonight We Riot, a mass protest brawler released this week that wears its politics boldly in a red bandana ’round its neck.

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Rumour: Diablo 2 is getting a remastered release this year

10 5 月, 2020 Natalie Clayton 0

Hell might freeze over before we hear more about Diablo IV, but you might not have to wait too long before facing off with the devil once more. Emissaries from Hell (well, France) suggest that Blizzard are working on a remaster of Diablo II, reportedly summoning a modern rerelease of the series highlight by the […]

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Colonel Croesus: Turn 9

10 5 月, 2020 Tim Stone 0

The scene in 70s war movie Colonel Croesus where 1st Squad get ambushed by the flak halftrack made a big impression on Master Timothy Stone Esquire. Me and my friends re-enacted it countless times in a local pedestrian underpass. Invariably there would be multiple Private O’Rourkes. All of us wanted to be the selfless BAR […]