When I heard Train Fever, I envisioned a Euro Truck Simulator-style game but with industrial revolution era trains. However, Train Fever is more akin to Sim City, with the player hanging above a handful of tiny cities, except this time, the player is only interested in public transport. Read more …
Although it’s nice playing vast, graphically advanced games on our shiny new PS4s, they’ll always be a place for those neat little indie affairs, like Velocity 2x, which is available for free this month on Sony’s ‘PS Plus’ service.
In celebration of the end of the dreaded summer gaming drought, and in anticipation of the glut of releases scheduled for the rest of 2014, here are three titles I am personally looking forward to, why I’m excited about them and what to expect. Read more …
It’s a risky business starting up an MMO these days. With WoW still sitting pretty with its millions of subscribers, new MMOs tend to begin in a flourish and slowly decline, inevitably becoming free-to-play. Just look at Trion World’s last effort, Defiance. However, with ArcheAge, Trion have admirably shown some true ambition in their attempt to create the definitive MMO experience. Read more …
Following the release of ‘P.T’ a horror-themed ‘playable teaser’ involving skin-crawling psychological horror and painfully difficult puzzles, it was revealed that a brand new next-gen entry into the venerable Silent Hill series is on the way. Silent Hills is going to be the product of a collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. How exciting! Read more …
Hideo Kojima stole the show as Gamescom with P.T., an alleged demo for a first-person horror game on the Fox engine available for free on PSN that, once completed, revealed that Kojima and acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro would be working together on the new Silent Hill game, Silent Hills.
It was a deft move and set the internet ablaze. It turned out that ‘P.T.’ was a complete horror experience in itself and the teaser was an unconnected bonus for whoever managed to complete it. At around an hour or two in length, I’ve played and reviewed shorter horror games (Saturn 9 comes to mind). Read more …