I won’t lie to you, I have spent the past few weeks desperate to tell you about Life is Strange: True Colours, a game designed by Deck Nine and published by the famed Square Enix studios. If you haven’t played any of the Life is Strange series, True Colours is a stand-alone story – no worries, but you can expect to pick up on a few references and reunite with a few characters if you are already familiar to the series. True Colours is truly a generation nine title, making vast improvements as compared to prior titles – and that is saying something because this series is incredible.
Why The Gaming Community Is So Hyped About Deathloop
Joel GunnerSep 7, '21
Tell me how this sounds: A James Bond film, but it isn’t a film, it’s a game, and it’s not Daniel Craig as James Bond, it’s Samuel L Jackson – and the whole film is having a bad trip. What do you think? Does this chaotic idea sound like your sort of thing? Me too. Thankfully, this idea is not confined to the realm of the imagination: it exists – it’s called Deathloop, and it comes out on the 14th of September. The logistics of this game are a bit puzzling, so I will try my best to decipher actually what is going on here. Deathloop was created by Arkane Studios and published by the Microsoft-owned Bethesda Softworks, but Deathloop will be a PlayStation exclusive in its first months due to the fact that the game was developed and signed off to PlayStation before the Xbox acquisition. It will come to Xbox, just not yet.
The Game JRPG Addicts Have Been Searching For: Tales of Arise
Joel GunnerSep 6, '21
Following the acclaimed release of Scarlet Nexus, Bandai Namco reveal yet another ace hidden up their sleeve: the 17th iteration of the Tales series, celebrating the saga’s 25th anniversary. Hitting the quarter century demands revelry, and Bandai Namco have not been reluctant to make the most of the opportunity. The result? Tales of Arise, a JRPG game that is everything fans of the series would want it to be, making leaps and bounds as compared to previous entries. Built not on a proprietary gamine engine but Unreal Engine 4, Arise is built in such a phenomenal way as to allow it to perfectly capture lightning in a bottle, harbouring precisely the vibe that should be attached to a game of this calibre. After being announced at E3 2019, Tales of Arise is set to be given its time to shine on September 10th, a month after the release of the well-regarded demo. Only at Gamescom 2021 did we get to peer further into the Arise abyss, being first treated to an impressive violin performance by a remarkably flexible woman cosplaying as one of the game’s primary protagonists, Shionne.
The Indie Titles From Gamescom 2021 You Won't Want To Miss
Joel GunnerSep 3, '21
Since the days of old, it has been drilled into us that it is sometimes the underdogs that end up victorious, knocking fan-favourites off the pedestal; the biblical tales of David and Goliath have taught us as much. Gaming, it seems, is no exception to this fundamental rule of underestimation: the smaller often overlooked indie games can at times rise up and win the hearts and minds of gamers across the globe, the original Psychonaut title from back in 2005 being an obvious example among many. With some mammoth announcements being made throughout the Gamescom 2021 convention, it would be easy for some promising indie titles to get lost in the ether, trampled on by the triple-A titles like Call of Duty Vanguard and Far Cry 6. To keep some deserving games afloat, we decided to give them an article of their own. Before we get started, though, we just wanted you to know that most (but not all) of the games will be coming to a mix of Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC, but we will not be stocking every game mentioned.