Last year's Hades was a godsend for fans of indie gaming, good storytelling in games, and action titles in general. So it's no surprise that Supergiant's Hades won big at this year's prestigious BAFTA Games Awards ceremony. The BAFTAs, or the British Academy Film Awards, is a pretty big deal for the entertainment indus

Platforms: Android, iOS, PC (Steam) Genre: Puzzle, Interactive, Horror, Found-Phone In almost sixty years of Doctor Who, there has never been a decent video game in the franchise's history, and especially not one that Whovians (that's what Doctor Who fans call themselves) can actually be proud of. Here comes Kaigan

Happy International Women's Day 2021, especially to the many who either play games, or create them, or both. They're better at multi-tasking than us men, anyway. To celebrate this auspicious day, let's talk about our favourite fictional females who help inspire many of us to champion our hobby, or even go above and

Just because a game company hasn't released a major game since 2019 doesn't mean it's in the red. In fact, you can be way above the black if you play your cards right. That's the case with Finnish developer Remedy, renowned for the Max Payne titles, Alan Wake, and Control. The latter action-adventure game came out i

With Ys IX finally out in English and for the masses willing to fork over a bit of extra money for a niche RPG game, it's high time we made a quick feature about the long-running Falcom series a sliver of people know about. So let's break it down into a buttload of questions people would ask about this seemingly ali

Platform: PS4 Genre: Action RPG with some tower defense bits Ys IX (pronounced "is-su") is about a red-headed adventurer who gets out of a giant-ass prison city within an hour or so, and then goes through the motions of a city-wide conspiracy that requires him to break into said prison city again and again. Along t

Steam's February game festival, aptly called the Steam Game Festival: February 2021 Edition, is now live. The week-long online event from the 4th to 10th February (GMT+8) not only features developer livestreams and chats, but more than 500 PC game demos of various genres for you to try out. Here are our picks, in ca

Short off the heels of announcing a Tomb Raider anime, Netflix is still on the animation domination train with its spin-off of King Kong. The streaming service has announced Skull Island, a new anime series set in the Legendary MonsterVerse. The show will be produced by Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind the su

While Sony has a bunch of first-party exclusives in 2021, the Xbox Series X and S have their own exclusives for gamers to look forward to. These include everything from the highly-anticipated Halo Infinite to smaller indie titles. However, most of them don't have definitive release dates as of yet; only general 2021

For more 2020 gaming goodness, head here. #4: Cyberpunk 2077 (PC, Xbox Series, PS5) CD Projekt Red's magnum opus CRPG of 2020 is obviously an undercooked broth that needs more time on the stove if December's many game-related headlines are of any indication. Heck, it's hard to excuse the fiasco the company has pu

2020 went by in a flash. The entertainment industry was heavily affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Lots of content were cancelled or delayed, but not all of them. We still had some great gems from what was a testing year for many of us. Let’s check out our favourite movies and TV shows from the year

2020 was a crappy year, but at least we had a ton of games to play and revel in. And the best part? 2020's video games had a ton of awesome plot reveals, story bits, and gameplay moments that made you glad you experienced it from start to finish. We are going to talk about them right now. Fair warning: there will

2020 is coming to a close, and it sure is filled with a ton of games from your triple-A stuff to indies. Is 2021 going to be the same? You bet! Thanks to the Xbox Series and PS5 existing, and possibly being available mid-2021, there's going to be a need for games to entertain yourselves. From the bigwig titles

Platform: PC Genre: Adventure game with photography ala Pokemon Snap Ever wonder what it's like to be a photojournalist, taking pictures of seemingly-innocuous events and then thrust into a unique situation? Being an important bystander to chronicle life events for a generation? That's Umuragi Generation's main gam

#26. Fires At Midnight (PC) https://videopress.com/v/dublr3UA?preloadContent=metadata A world where sex without love lights people up literally. The end of 1999 where the future is uncertain. 90s references aplenty. Fires At Midnight is one of the most interesting games to come out of Malaysi

The last Nintendo live stream took place in September 2020, but now we’ve finally received a new one. The presentation showcased a lot of exciting new indie games for Nintendo Switch owners to look forward to. Check out my full recap and roundup of the Nintendo Indie World Showcase December 2020 below:

The Game Awards 2020 just concluded, and it was probably the biggest iteration of the annual event yet. It featured tons of surprises in the form of new game announcements, trailers, reveals, and a slew of guest appearances. Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2020 (they're highlighted in bold): Game of

The PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year polls are now live and you can vote on PlayStation Blog now. There are 17 categories this year, and the polls will remain open until 3.59pm GMT+8 on 14 December 2020. Malaysian-based Metronomik's No Straight Roads managed to garner two nominations, including Best Independent Ga

I'm only a couple more hours in before I can get lovebirds-on-a-lam Kay and Yu out of the jam they're stuck in before the eventual end. But you see, everything alien about developer The Game Bakers' latest survival adventure sci-fi indie, Haven, makes me just want to, I don't know, just mellow out. Yes, this IS from

Platform(s): Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC, PS5, PS4 Genre: Greek-themed Ubisoft open-world odyssey, Breath of the Wild edition Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In this 2020 and video game culture context, the Nintendo Switch hit Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is beaming with so much joy because ther