Tag: Hands on
My Brother Rabbit is a wondrous adventure game for the whole family
My Brother Rabbit is a unique adventure game with hand-painted graphics and personality for days, developed by indie studio Artifex Mundi.
We play as a cute but cranky rabbit, the star of a story a little boy tells his sick sister to help her deal with her illness. The titular rabbit leaves his cozy, underground home to help his friend, a...
Darksiders 3 shows us a whole new side of the apocalypse
Darksiders, one of my all-time favorite action-adventure series, is back after a pretty long hiatus. Fans have been waiting for a long time to play as the two remaining Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Fury and Strife. We'll get to play as Fury in the upcoming Darksiders 3.
I got my hands on a Darksiders demo at Gamescom 2018, and now have a good...
Harold Halibut is a quirky adventure game made entirely by hand
I love classic adventure games, stop-motion movies, and stop-motion classic adventure games such as The Neverhood. So I was excited to learn about Harold Halibut - an upcoming narrative adventure about a janitor in an underwater space station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbejfDVg73c
The Everyday Life of an Underwater Space Janitor
The whole "underwater space station" might be a bit confusing, so let me explain: Harold...
Team Sonic Racing offers a fresh look on both racing and Sonic
Team Sonic Racing is the next entry in the Sonic racing game series and successor to the critically acclaimed Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. The game has been teased back in SXSW 2018 and received a reveal trailer at E3 2018.
At Gamescom 2018, I got the opportunity to sit down with Derek Littlewood from Sumo Digital and play the Team Sonic...
Hitman 2 gameplay and new features straight out of Gamescom 2018
Warner Bros. Interactive invited us to play the first mission of Hitman 2 at Gamescom 2018. It's the same Miami mission we got a brief glimpse of when the game was announced, but we came out of it with a full Hitman 2 gameplay video for you to watch.
You can watch me silently eliminate the two targets in the...
Battlefield 5 multiplayer returns victorious to the battlefields of WW2
We returned to the battlefields of WW2 with the game that brings the franchise home – Battlefield 5. Many applauded DICE for continuing the great success of Battlefield 1, but some fans were infuriated by a few of the changes.
Let us rise above any controversy, and judge the closed beta gameplay trailer from Gamescom 2018, which features the Rotterdam map,...
World of Tanks VR and World of Tanks AR Spectate take warfare to a whole new reality
World of Tanks AR Spectate
During Gamescom 2018, Wargaming presented a prototype system which they call World of Tanks AR Spectate or WoT-AR for short.
The system takes a scripted scenario of a battle that happened in World of Tanks that displays in on any flat surface in your house, like the kitchen table, through an ordinary tablet. WoT-AR can run the simulation using...
Biomutant shows you what’s it like to be a mutant rodent in a beautiful apocalypse
THQ Nordic announced Biomutant last year, and this year they brought a fully playable demo of the upcoming action role-playing game to Gamescom.
Biomutant lets you design a cute, furry mutant rodent, and engage in battle with other furry friends. Take a look at the latest trailer before we dive right into the demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVfeSHbjslw
The Biomutant Gamescom demo starts us off with character creation. We need...
Breach, a new action RPG by ex-BioWare devs, is doing assymetric multiplayer right
Breach was announced just in time for Gamescom 2018 and we, being the curious bunch, sat down with developer QC Games during the convention.
So, we met up with Game Director Dallas Dickinson and CCO Gabe Amatangelo who told us more about the dungeon crawler and its asymmetric multiplayer. We even got to play through a breach and utterly obliterate the...
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Conquest Battles and abilites take combat to a whole new level
One of the new and most impressive additions to Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the Conquest Battles. These massive battles of 150 Spartans against 150 Athenians take the series' reworked combat system we first saw in Assassin's Creed Origins to the next level.
The improved combat also introduces active abilities for both your primary weapon and bow, which should help you...