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Review: Flinthook
Flinthook comes from the Montreal indie studio Tribute. If the studio sounds familiar, it’s probably due to the fact that over the past few years, they’ve released some shining PSN titles, including Wizorb, Curses N’ Chaos, Ninja Senki DX, and …
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Review: Siegecraft Commander
StarCraft meets Worms. Let that sink in for a little bit. Good? Great. Siegecraft Commander comes from Australian developers Blowfish Studios. According to their website, this is the latest in a series of Siegecraft games. It’s the first one I’ve …
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Review: Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure
Demetrios comes to Vita from French developer Cowcat, a one-man studio headed by Breton Fabrice. It’s an impressive experience coming from a single person studio. The game has seen positive reception on Steam, where it was previously released, and it’s …
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Review: Type:Rider
Type:Rider is a platforming game in which the player ‘explores’ the history of various popular fonts. I use apostrophes to encapsulate ‘explores’ because in reality, you’re just playing a platformer with clunky controls; jumping on thematic set-pieces (punctuation marks, famous …
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Review: Moon Hunters
Moon Hunters was a tricky game for me to get through with the purposes of reviewing it. I first came across it at PAX East 2015, when I met the Kit Fox team and chatted about their aspirations for the …
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Review: Overcooked
I could struggle to make some deep(-dish) metaphors and puns about cooking, or just put it plainly: Overcooked is delightful. The team at Ghost Town Games have put together an experience well worth playing for anyone who has ever wondered …
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Review: Tricky Towers
Tetrominoes have shown up in a good number of games since making their debut in Tetris back in 1984. Some notable PlayStation Network titles that make use of tetrominoes include the multiplayer tower-defense game Slam Bolt Scrappers and the single-player …
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Review: Castles
Castles is an action puzzler that comes from Madrid developers WhootGames and indie games publisher Badland. In it, you control a munchkin-looking character, moving blocks around a 7×7 playfield to match three or more like colors or symbols (blocks only …
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Review: Tumblestone
I love Yoshi’s Cookie. I adore Tetris. As far as I’m concerned, Critter Crunch is an all-time classic. Tumblestone not only stands with those giants, but is in some ways better than them. The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, developers behind The …
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Review: VIDEOBALL
VIDEOBALL is tried, tested, and true. It comes from Action Button Entertainment, the California-based indie developer behind PSM gems Tuffy the Corgi and the Tower of Bones and Ten by Eight. VIDEOBALL is accessible. It can be picked up and …
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Review: Flinthook
Flinthook comes from the Montreal indie studio Tribute. If the studio sounds familiar, it’s probably due to the fact that over the past few years, they’ve released some shining PSN titles, including Wizorb, Curses N’ Chaos, Ninja Senki DX, and …
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Review: Siegecraft Commander
StarCraft meets Worms. Let that sink in for a little bit. Good? Great. Siegecraft Commander comes from Australian developers Blowfish Studios. According to their website, this is the latest in a series of Siegecraft games. It’s the first one I’ve …
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Review: Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure
Demetrios comes to Vita from French developer Cowcat, a one-man studio headed by Breton Fabrice. It’s an impressive experience coming from a single person studio. The game has seen positive reception on Steam, where it was previously released, and it’s …
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Review: Type:Rider
Type:Rider is a platforming game in which the player ‘explores’ the history of various popular fonts. I use apostrophes to encapsulate ‘explores’ because in reality, you’re just playing a platformer with clunky controls; jumping on thematic set-pieces (punctuation marks, famous …
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Review: Moon Hunters
Moon Hunters was a tricky game for me to get through with the purposes of reviewing it. I first came across it at PAX East 2015, when I met the Kit Fox team and chatted about their aspirations for the …
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Review: Overcooked
I could struggle to make some deep(-dish) metaphors and puns about cooking, or just put it plainly: Overcooked is delightful. The team at Ghost Town Games have put together an experience well worth playing for anyone who has ever wondered …
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Review: Tricky Towers
Tetrominoes have shown up in a good number of games since making their debut in Tetris back in 1984. Some notable PlayStation Network titles that make use of tetrominoes include the multiplayer tower-defense game Slam Bolt Scrappers and the single-player …
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Read More
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Review: Castles
Castles is an action puzzler that comes from Madrid developers WhootGames and indie games publisher Badland. In it, you control a munchkin-looking character, moving blocks around a 7×7 playfield to match three or more like colors or symbols (blocks only …
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Review: Tumblestone
I love Yoshi’s Cookie. I adore Tetris. As far as I’m concerned, Critter Crunch is an all-time classic. Tumblestone not only stands with those giants, but is in some ways better than them. The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, developers behind The …
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Review: VIDEOBALL
VIDEOBALL is tried, tested, and true. It comes from Action Button Entertainment, the California-based indie developer behind PSM gems Tuffy the Corgi and the Tower of Bones and Ten by Eight. VIDEOBALL is accessible. It can be picked up and …
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