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The Rogue Prince of Persia Early Access Preview – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
The second Prince of Persia game in 2024 represents a major lesson learned for Ubisoft from a publishing standpoint. If you shun Steam and insist…
Serum Early Access Impressions
Serum is a video game made by Polish developers called Game Island and they describe it as a survival adventure game. I like Polish game…
Manor Lords Early Access Preview – Feudalism is Fun
City/village building economic and social simulators focused on survival are dotting the gaming landscape, and it seems that people can’t get enough of them. Everyone…
No Rest for the Wicked Early Access Preview – No Rest for the Souls
For someone like me, that played every major Soulslike in the past 9 years and is a veteran of ARPG genre ever since the very…
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Palworld Preview – Beastmastery Beckons
Pokémon with guns. That ad-hoc definition was the flying cigarette butt that lit the fuse of the gaming masses’ explosive enthusiasm. Palworld, an unknown and…
Lethal Company Preview – Looter/Screamer
Viral sensations. When they are bad, like COVID-19, they suck major balls, but sometimes they hit the spot and set the world on fire in…
BattleBit Remastered Preview – LowPoly Bonanza
Multiplayer shooters on the PC are legion. Extraction shooters and battle royales are dominating the modern battlespace, lately taking precedence over more traditional forms. When…
XDefiant Preview – RCycled
What the world desperately needs right now is another free2play multiplayer shooter. Perhaps a simple Call of Duty clone, slated for the mid or late…
Marauders Preview – Exoplanetary Tarkov
Well-established hard-core extraction shooters like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown are riddled with cheaters. It would be a severe understatement to say that they…
Master of Magic Preview – Ancient Inspiration
A whole year before Heroes of Might and Magic, one awesome game had set the gold standard for future turn-based fantasy strategies. Simtex’s Master of…
Disney Dreamlight Valley Preview – Shiny Happy People
One of the most popular games during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020/2021 was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo Switch exclusive casual life sim. The game…
Diablo Immortal Preview – Strong Feelings Guaranteed
Diablo Immortal is the game people love to hate. The sweet irony is that a solid majority of those haters will end up playing it….
V Rising Preview – Carpe Noctem
A year and a half after Valheim entered early access on Steam, it’s time for another survival game to conquer its charts by storm. V…
Dune: Spice Wars Preview – It Must Flow
One of the best Sci-fi novels of the last century inspired one of the best strategy games in the early nineties and probably the single…
Ready or Not Preview – SWAT 5
It has been almost seventeen years since SWAT 4, the last proper single-player simulator of Special Weapons and Tactics. Did the police go out of…
Darkest Dungeon 2 Preview – Suicide Squad
One of the finest rogue-lite games in history is a pretty tough act to follow. How, exactly, could you top Darkest Dungeon? By making it…
Back 4 Blood Preview – Invoking the Old Glory
Marvel’s lawyers tried to copyright the term “zombie” back in the late seventies, but their dick move was not successful (you can read about it…
In Sound Mind Preview – Promises of Creep
More than a decade ago, We Create Stuff development team gained significant respect with a Source engine modification called Nightmare House 2. The small disturbing…
Encased Preview – Fallout Meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Among a certain subset of fans and game developers, the first two Fallout games are revered as the pinnacle of the computer role-playing game genre….
Phantom Abyss Preview – Whip-Smart
Until there is some radical technology shift regarding how we control or consume games, innovation will mostly manifest itself as a clever combination of established…
Going Medieval Preview – Live Free or Die Hard
Borrowing heavily from Stronghold and RimWorld, Going Medieval attempts to commingle those influences within its own authentic framework of survivalism, hardship, and progress. The game…
Scavengers Preview – Next Big Thing?
Not really, but if you are sufficiently bored with the classic multiplayer heavyweights everyone is playing these days and wouldn’t mind some alternative game with…
Outriders Preview – Another Anthem
I really don’t want another Anthem. You and your friends don’t want another Anthem. Even Bioware and EA would like to forget about Anthem, cut…
Valheim Preview – Ragnar Exiles
Trends in gaming are even more unpredictable than fluctuations in the stock market. The over-saturated genre of survival simulation games was steadily going the same…