EGX Hands-On Preview: Tembo the Badass Elephant
EGX gave us the opportunity to be among the first people to play GameFreak’s newest venture, Tembo the Badass Elephant and we jumped at the chance, if only under the mistaken impression that it had...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On Preview: MachiaVillain
We’re such fans of haunted-house-based horror movies that we won’t go within a hundred miles of a native American burial ground. Thankfully, this hasn’t been much of a problem in the UK. But that...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: Guild of Dungeoneering
If you’re anything like us, you’ll have memories of childhood that mainly revolve around delving into dungeons, in search of loot and glory. Of making sure nobody was watching before flicking back a...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: HER STORY
There are some pretty fantastic aspects of gaming which have fallen by the wayside in recent years, and at this point nobody remembers them without wry, condescending pity or utter disdain. Bring up...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: Adventure Box
Among all the great life lessons we’ve learned from Minecraft (namely that a man can carry 200 tons of stone and that a regular chest can hold 27 large chests), one lesson stands out. The best ideas...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: De Mambo
Last week at EGX REZZED I was lucky enough to get hands on time with The Dangerous Kitchen’s debut game – De Mambo. Currently in development for PC, PS4 and Vita, the easiest way I can describe the...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: Carmageddon Reincarnation
It’s back! It’s been a bloody long time coming, but after all these years, the grand-daddy of controversial games, Carmageddon, has returned, and has been reincarnated (so to speak) for the modern age....
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: The Weaponographist
I have something of a love-hate relationship with Roguelikes. I love them, but they bloody hate me. At EGX Rezzed I got to have a couple goes on a game that will no doubt have me just giving it one...
View ArticleIn space, no-one can hear you groan – Asteroids: Outpost PC Preview
It’s very rare that anyone at WASDuk feels guilty about anything, but I was starting to wonder if we weren’t being a bit unfair on Asteroids: Outpost. When it was first announced by Atari and Salty, I...
View ArticleEGX Hands-On: Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma
A few of my favourite things in the world are Samuel L Jackson, anime and old samurai movies. So, when I first watched Afro Samurai, I was in heaven. The game was also (despite some minor foibles) a...
View ArticleSombrero PC Preview: Western Mayhem with a side of Spaghetti
Dust off your poncho, break out the chewing tobacco, hit play on the video up there and maybe, just maybe we’ll have captured some of the essence of PixelMetal’s debut title; Sombrero. If you hadn’t...
View ArticleCrest PC Preview: Solid concept does not a good game make
Crest from Indie developers Eat Create Sleep is a God game like no other. God games usually cast you as “God” simply because you’re the player directing the lives of the people in game; you have...
View ArticleKyn PC Preview – It’s tough up North
It must be tough to be Scandinavian these days. The popular notion of the snow-bound northern European countries has shifted considerably in recent times from hale and hardy muscle-bound stoics to a...
View ArticleArmikrog PC Preview: Claymation Capers
I’m probably in the minority here, but does anyone else remember the brilliant Neverhood and its funky platforming semi-sequel Skull Monkeys from waaay back in the mid-nineties? Well if you do, well...
View ArticleMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Preview: Call me Ishmael
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes was little more than a proof-of-concept demo, but it left me hungry for more of the open-ended sneaking and backstabbing promised in the rest of the game. So, when the...
View ArticleGuild of Dungeoneering PC Preview – Dungeons & Draftsmen
We’ve all had bad experiences with tabletop role-playing games. Perhaps it’s a lazy dungeon master who cruelly curtails any attempt at exploration as soon as (and often before) it begins with deft...
View ArticleTales of Zestiria Hands on (PS4) Preview
Last week the good folks at Namco invited us to their offices for tea and cakes. Or…to have a look at the first couple of hours of the latest entry in the long running Tales series, that will be making...
View ArticleARK Survival Evolved Preview (Xbox One): God help us, we’re in the hands of...
Ark puts you in the shoes of a customizable avatar that awakens in a tropical jungle inhabited by various species of prehistoric wildlife, from man-eating ants to the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex. And...
View ArticleKôna: Day One (Beta) Preview – Baby It’s Cold Outside
Kôna: Day One is the first of four episodes that aim to combine the suspense and immersion of first person survival games with the narrative-driven exploration and mystery of adventure games. Players...
View ArticleDark Souls III Preview – Bloody Mary Morning
When I previewed Dark Souls II way back in 2014, I compared the evolution of the Souls series to Irish comedian Dylan Moran’s views on Hangovers. When you’re young – they’re forceful and direct, they...
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