Chip’s Challenge, an incredibly hard puzzle game that was released before I was even born, is available now on Steam for free. A Twitter account for Chuck’s Challenge, a spin-off puzzle game created also created by Chuck Sommerville, announced that Chip’s Challenge would be going free on Steam (opens in …
Read More »Sonys My PS4 Life shows you how many hours youve spent playing PS4 games this generation
Sony’s new My PS4 Life website shows you exactly how much time you’ve spent playing PS4 games since the console launched five years ago. It’s a bit like those ‘Friendship Anniversary’ videos you get on Facebook, if a little more insightful, and probably more sobering. All you need to do …
Read More »Six years after its release, is Catherine a sexist nightmare or feminist parable?
If video games were a physical realm, it would be a hostile and potentially lethal place for women. This is an industry where female bloggers and developers regularly receive death threats, where female gamers are jeered online simply for their gender, and where it’s still hard to find a female …
Read More »Little Nightmares review: “Studio Ghiblis Spirited Away, if Spirited Away was grotesque and horrifying”
You are what you eat. If there is a theme running throughout Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares, this is it. The stealth-heavy horror game takes the familiar adage and spins something new, something monstrous, something ugly out of it. And if you’re the type to lean forward to hear a ghost …
Read More »Little Nightmares: why do critics love this creepy little game?
Three years after its official unveiling under a different title, Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares (opens in new tab) has arrived on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Anyone can take a look and be impressed by its grotesque visual design, but how does this horrifying game of hide and seek actually …
Read More »The escape room game that makes PS VR worth owning
You wake up in a generic, sterile utility room; the kind you’d find in any bland, corporate R&D building. Ahead of you are a series of lockers, cabinets and some tables. Closer to you are a few signs with strange symbols on them, and to their right is a fairly …
Read More »GR+ Live: Celebrating 25 years of Super Nintendo games
On August 23rd, 1991 the people of the United States started playing with power. Super power. The Super Nintendo launch brought the house of Mario into the world of 16-bit gaming. Super NES launch games like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Gradius 3, and SimCity presaged an astoundingly fruitful five …
Read More »The JJ Abrams produced Portal and Half-life movies are definitely actually happening
There’s been mention of the JJ Abrams produced Portal and Half-life movies but now we’ve more word from the man himself. Slim word, admittedly but still, it’s something. Speaking to IGN (opens in new tab) Abrams was asked for an update on the two films and replied, “They’re in development, …
Read More »Hitman GO walkthrough
Hitman GO (opens in new tab) is a puzzle game take on the series, challenging you to shuffle your baldy assassin statue around increasingly complex dioramas to reach extraction points or eliminate your targets. Levels also feature objectives to complete, such as retrieving your briefcase or completing within a certain …
Read More »The Room 3 builds you up so it can stab you in the back
WARNING: Spoilers for The Room series You’re a genius. The Room 3 tells you so repeatedly, as you float from one Rube Goldberg-like device to the next, looking close to find clues that let you uncover their workings and solve the arcane puzzles within. Your intelligence is incredible, assures the …
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