Previews

Son of Nor Preview    Terraforming. The art or act of shaping the earth or ground at your feet. This hasn’t always gone hand in hand with gaming. There have definitely been exceptions: Minecraft and Terraria spring to mind, since they technically allow you to freely break and re-arrange the ground. The only problem is that these games use a grid-like system, restricting terraforming to b...[Read More]

Bomb Preview   Dog-fighting games aren’t all that common. They never really were or have been either. Sure, there are flight simulators and modern jet fighting games (like the H.A.W.X. series) but not many with the old rickety planes from the WW2 era. The Industry as a whole seems to be geared towards modern warfare, with fancy auto locking missiles and new fangled gadgets. Then there’s ga...[Read More]

Vector Thrust Preview    Flying is one of those abilities none of us would actually mind having. Well, except for those who suffer from altitude sickness, I guess. Good thing is – planes exist, and stuff, so we can all just go ahead and get a pilot’s license! Oh, wait. No. No we can’t. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why flight simulators exist. To provide us shambling humans a fracti...[Read More]

Space Engineers Preview    Space. The final frontier. There’s really no better setting for games to explore, simply because of its maddeningly vast stretches of darkness. Not to forget the numerous mysteries waiting to be discovered, either. And while we may not be able to recreate a fully believable simulation of the universe (yet), we can at least pretend that we’re doing our best to...[Read More]

Planet Explorers Preview   Fancy a voxel-based open world game like Minecraft, but set in an extraterrestrial sci-fi setting, with massive plains, beautiful canyons, rivers, lakes and mountains, where you could build and manage your own colony occupied by settlers defending, working on and farming your land, design and build your own dream car or aircraft, and fight scary gigantic alien life fo...[Read More]

Crawl Preview   Recently, a fair number of Early Access games tell the audience that they have a unique and imaginative game mechanic or feature that’s different from anything you’ll see in the mainstream market. They’ll then sell a half finished product, sometimes with a list of all the missing features that may or may not make it into the final release. Crawl is definitely not in this...[Read More]

Grim Dawn Preview    There was once a time when – being a young, impressionable gamer – I played nothing but hack ‘n’ slash games. Trying to cope with the legendary Diablo 2 and being utterly hyped for its then upcoming successor, I jumped into Titan Quest in hopes of getting another fix for my throttling addiction. To this day I remember it as a thrilling (if disappointingly lacking...[Read More]

Heroes and Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar Preview   Heroes and Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar is an turn-based action RPG. The game hasn’t officially been released yet, so some of the problems I found may or may not have been fixed by release date. The player starts with three heroes, Yaha (the warrior), Benedict (the mage) and Allen (the cleric), but will gain more as the game goes on. The pl...[Read More]

Endless Legend Preview     There’s a certain flair to the word “endless” in gaming. Sure, we’re aware that no game is actually without an end, but with the latest advances in world and NPC generation, it can be said that we’re getting pretty damn close to building a game that is, for all intents and purposes, endless. Disregarding that, we gamers flock to titles that come advertised...[Read More]