Weekplay 202234
The grind is strong in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (NSW). I’m kind of zoning out of the story; just hovering up loot and quest logs is pretty much …
Weekplay 202235
The summer vibes are strong in Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- (NSW). Just the opening itself and the …
Weekplay 202238
“Sunsoft is back, baby!” The announcement trailer was rather enthusiastic, but to be honest, I am pretty giddy about it. Not only is the new Sunsoft bringing …
Weekplay 202239
Brando made a little video about Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - MARS (PS4) and that was basically the parting shot to dive into the game myself. Having …
Weekplay 202240
To celebrate the multiplatform release of No More Heroes III, I booted up the original No More Heroes (NSW) remaster. This one hits differently these days. …
Weekplay 202243
It suffered a break of a few months, but I completed my playthrough of Citizen Sleeper (SD) over the weekend. This is still one amazing game and looking back …
Weekplay 202244
More than 10 years ago, a colleague of mine notified me of a metroidvania being in development. It was a solo project and people were getting pretty excited …
Weekplay 202245
At Local Heroes we worked on the localisation of Tactics Ogre: Reborn (PS5) quite some time ago, to the point that we thought the game had been cancelled. But …
Every Mega Man game's lore explained in obsessive detail
What it says on the tin. It's not foolproof, but then again, there is so much stupid stuff going on in this franchise, that it doesn't really matter.
Factorio as a tool for interviewing
In a strange twist of reverse gamification (applying games to real-world problems), here's obsessive optimisation game Factorio being used as a replacement for …
Springblades
Dutch indie game collective Sokpop has a new game out: Springblades. Which is best described as an absurdist Paper Mario-like. It's also rather good; if you …
Loot box bill filed in Australia
"By tempting young players with the potential-to-win game-changing items, encouraging risk-taking behaviour for a possible reward, delivering random prizes on …
Old-school vibes from Elsewhere in the Night
Elsewhere in the Night is bathing gloriously in its '80s adventure game vibes. Looking forward to this releasing later this week on December 6. It'll be a …
Strange New Worlds is… good?
I had kind of given up on any of the Kurtzman Trek series ever becoming good after Discovery took nose dive after nose dive after nose dive. But having finally …
Vtubers will inherit the earth
Portable full body motion capture for consumers? Only Sony.
Weekplay 202247
I haven't been playing games much in the past few weeks. I've been mostly reading a lot and listening to podcasts. That said, listening to podcasts usually …
E-ink playing cards
Wyldcards are small plastic cards with e-ink screens (like a Kindle). When placed onto a plinth, the image on the card can be changed by a hidden computer. The …
Make a Minecraft world out of a SimCity
MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds.
Cyberpunk RPG title incoming
I've been working through the Blades in the Dark rules and it's a very interesting system that seems to hold the middle-ground between Dungeons & Dragons …
Shredded headed to PS5
Look, it's clearly no SSX, but I'm still very much intrigued by this title. During the Xbox 360-era I did get some quality time in with Stoked and Stoked Big …
Beast Wars enter the Bayverse
Not bad. Really happy this new instalment of the Transformers movie series uses Bumblebee-esque designs. You can actually see what’s going on and how stuff is …
Human Chess
Human Chess has the same rules as normal chess, with one additional mechanic. Starting from move 2, players can claim their opponent’s last move was a top …
An occidental gaming look at Christianity
Super Bunnyhop takes a look at the deeper religious elements that are all over Bayonetta. It's an interesting piece on its own, but I was kind of smitten by …