Month: March 2016
The Kindred Preview | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Minecraft is seen as a sort of mixed blessing in the design community. On one hand, it displayed that you don’t need next-gen graphics or complicated mechanics to draw in a large crowd of fans. On the other, it started a trend of voxel-based copycats trying to quickly and cheaply cash in on the fame Minecraft had. Now, should any poor developer be tempted to use minimalist voxel-based des...[Read More]
Trackmania Turbo Multiplayer Trailer | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Today, Ubisoft revealed the new trailer for their upcoming arcade racing title, Trackmania Turbo. In this ‘Multiplayer Trailer’, players are introduced to the multiplayer options available in Trackmania Turbo, including the innovative ‘Double Driver’ mode, where two players take control of a single car to try and achieve the best lap time possible, which you can watch below. Trackmania Tur...[Read More]
INTO THE STARS REVIEW
By today’s video game marketplace standards space is anything but the final frontier. As a matter of fact, it is quite a commonality to come across a space-based video game perhaps two out of six times while scrolling through any respective digital distribution marketplace – not trying to be exact here, but that ratio, I feel, is accurate enough based on personal experience. Nevertheless, there is...[Read More]
SCREENCHEAT REVIEW
There are few thing worse in this world than a dirty screen-watcher. I’ve had more arguments with friends over them watching my screen in local multiplayer than anything else. It was an unwritten rule that anyone playing split screen would not look at the other player’s screen, I mean that’s cheating, right? Well, that is the entire premise of Samurai Punk’s new First Person Shooter: Screencheat. ...[Read More]
FAR CRY PRIMAL REVIEW
The Far Cry series has always been a favourite of mine, with Blood Dragon topping the chart in my opinion. Now Ubisoft have stripped back humanity in this latest instalment and thrown us back into the age of cave dwellers, rocks and long forgotten beasts. I think that the developers have taken a risk with this entry, getting rid of all the technology we have come to expect in modern day shooters a...[Read More]
Blood Alloy: Reborn Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
If there’s one type of game I hate, then it’s got to be the ones where potential is clearly visible and yearning to break through, only to fall short due to the game’s objective faults. It’s easy to praise a good game, and it’s even easier to drive a bad one into the ground; fun, even. Criticising a game where something just doesn’t click right is a wholly different matter, thou...[Read More]
Pixel Puzzles 2: Space Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
There are a good number of reasons for any tabletop developer to release a virtual version of their game. You can’t lose digital pieces; computer automation speeds up the gameplay in most titles, and you can’t argue vaguely worded rules vs. programmed results. Sure, some games (like jigsaw puzzles) might seem like pointless ports at first, but putting some thought behind it will show th...[Read More]
Deponia Doomsday Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Doomsday isn’t the first game in the series to bend spacetime, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. After what some would call a disappointing conclusion to the Deponia franchise, some fans had difficulty letting go as the lead character Rufus had. Surprisingly, even to a games journalist who has covered the company, the developers felt they had more to say and announced and released th...[Read More]
ACTION HENK REVIEW
For those of you who regularly follow our site, you may remember the preview I wrote for Action Henk last month. Overall my impressions were very positive; the gameplay fundamentals were solid, and I enjoyed replaying levels to try to beat my fastest time. Now that I’ve come back to it I still think it’s fun, but its appeal doesn’t last forever. For those of you who don’t know what Action Henk is,...[Read More]
Crowdfunding Site Gamekicker to Launch Next Week | MOUSE n JOYPAD
A new crowdfunding site specifically for small indie game developers called Gamekicker is set to launch on the 8th of March. According to the “About Gamekicker†section on their website, the crowdfunding service was started as an alternative to current crowdfunding platforms: “We started this platform because crowdfunding for video games has been far from perfect. We saw th...[Read More]
Kleese and El Dragon Join the Roster of BattleBorn | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Gearbox Software, the developers of the critically acclaimed Borderlands franchise, are close to wrapping up the development of their upcoming title Battleborn, which is supposedly releasing on the third of May, this year. They have recently announced that two new characters are being added to the roster of 25 that will be shipped with the game. All characters are entirely different and suited for...[Read More]
Herolike Preview | MOUSE n JOYPAD
I spend a lot of time on Steam. I am not talking about time spent actually playing games via Steam, but rather I spend what is bound to be a significant part of my life going down what I like to call the “Steam rabbit holeâ€. I have not taken an exact tally, but Steam currently has more games than I’ll ever realize – and that number gets bigger each month! This means that there are a...[Read More]