When I think back on love — specifically first love — there are a ton of complicated emotions that crop up: happiness, fear, uncertainty, awkwardness, and that old cliche of getting “butterflies in your stomach.” It’s appropriate that love conjures up so many of those feelings (especially when I think back on my own experiences), and yet over the course of 30 or so minutes of playing it, the recently-released mobile game Florence brought all those feelings up once again and then some, but in a way that made me think fondly of how we look at relationships, romance, and the people that we fall in love with and why we fall in love with them. As the debut title from the Melbourne, Australia-based developer Mountains (which is led by former Monument Valley lead designer Ken Wong), Florence is part interactive graphic novel, and part visual novel-esque romance game. Over the course of the game’s 20 chapters (with the game’s … [Read more...] about Florence is a Heartbreaking, Beautiful, and Pocket-Sized Tale of Falling in Love
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Unknown Pleasures: 10 of the best new Steam games this week
Welcome back to Unknown Pleasures, our weekly digest of the best new games released on Steam over the past seven days, but which most probably flew under your radar. This time: Pong with 500 balls, XCOM meets SUPERHOT, house-trashing wizards, the not quite so fantastical Mr Fox and feline Zelda. Enlightenment ($11.99, £8.99, Early Access) Top-down, twin stickish third-person horror-shooter, which reminds me a little of the old noughties Hunter: The Reckoning on Xbox and Gamecube. The Chinese-English translation is all kinds of messy, but hey, how much do you really need to be able to read when the challenge is to shoot/whack capering baddies, dodge explosions and collect new weapons? Pretty glossy for what it is, and that makes it exactly the sort of thing you’d happily have dropped thirty bones on back in 2003 or so, but with the added benefit of procedurally generated maps to keep you going endlessly. It’s in Early Access so there’s scope for a ton of new … [Read more...] about Unknown Pleasures: 10 of the best new Steam games this week
The charming story behind Dragon Ball’s first PC fangame
I can't hide it: I'm thrilled that Dragon Ball FighterZ is coming to the PC. The first Dragon Ball game came out in 1986, for a mostly forgotten console called the Super Cassette Vision. Since then there have been literally dozens of Dragon Ball games, RPGs and fighters and adventure games, but not one of them was released for the PC until just the last few years. Even in the heyday of 80s Japanese PC RPGs, nothing. Instead, the PC has long been the domain of Dragon Ball fangames—fighters like Hyper Dragon Ball Z, made in the free 2D game engine MUGEN. While waiting for FighterZ, I decided to research Dragon Ball's PC history, wondering if there could've been some long-lost, never-translated 80s RPG out there I'd never heard of. Instead, I found a charming 25-year-old game made by four high school kids with no internet and just a few precious programming books. As soon as a Google search brought me to this page on Squakenet, it was clear something was fishy. This was definitely a … [Read more...] about The charming story behind Dragon Ball’s first PC fangame
The 25 best FPS games to play right now
Lock and load Okay, this list was never going to be easy to compile. As one of the most popular, eclectic and influential gaming genres, nailing down the list of the best FPS titles to just 25 games is an almost ridiculous task. So to help narrow things down, we made some hard and fast rules. Read them before you move on.Number 1: The games have to be first person, and shooting has to be the predominant game system (hey, the clue is in "FPS"). So no Gears of War, and no Resident Evil 7. Number 2: This list is about currently best, not historically most important. To keep this list accessible, we're only including games you can play right now on current-generation consoles, instead of having to hunt down a PS2 at a garage sale. Have no fear: we haven’t forgotten the influential games that came before. They have their very own slide that explains their importance to the genre before we get started. See if you agree with our choices, as we progress toward revealing our number … [Read more...] about The 25 best FPS games to play right now
New For Hulu In January 2018: Fear The Walking Dead And Other Movies And TV Shows
Looking for a way to ring in the new year that involves little more than your couch and a TV? Luckily for you, the start of a new month means new movies and TV shows added to several streaming services--including Hulu.In terms of movies, there are a number of standout titles being added to the streamer, but none quite as excellent as both films in the Bill & Ted series. Both Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey arrive on January 1, along with movies like Zodiac, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Karate Kid 1-4, and Grizzly Man.For TV, new seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Homeland all arrive. January will also see the addition of many cooking shows, with new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Cupcake Wars, and Great Food Truck Race among the titles arriving.You can take a look at all of the Hulu additions for January below. You can also see everything Netflix is debuting during the first month of the new … [Read more...] about New For Hulu In January 2018: Fear The Walking Dead And Other Movies And TV Shows