Expelled! is a fun whodunnit that is an excellent follow-up to Inkle’s 2021 narrative-focused title Overboard! The Setup of Expelled! Set in 1922, you play as Verity Amersham, a student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls. Boarding school life is tough; between friends, a scholarship and the field hockey team, she’s got a lot…
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Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To Final Impressions
Spunky spirits test the power of witchy and demonic friendship in this hybrid dating sim/puzzle game. What is Spirit Swap? In the game, you play as Samar – a Spirit Swapper living outside the coastal town of Demashq. In your role, you must ensure that little troublesome multi-coloured spirits from a dimension beyond yours aren’t…
Threshold Review
Just make sure the train doesn’t stop, okay? What The Heck is Threshold? Threshold is a first-person, bite-sized adventure game where you play as a character with an impossible task at the end of the world. It’s the first solo title from Julien Eveillé, a level, system and game designer on titles like Dishonored, DEATHLOOP…
Pinball Spire Final Impressions
After playing three hours and several different sections of Pinball Spire, I’d recommend this one for fans of pinball and those looking for an out-of-the-box Metroidvania to play this fall. What is Pinball Spire? Put simply, Pinball Spire combines two popular genres: pinball and Metroidvania. In this one, the second major release from Oakville, Ontario’s…
The Gaming Brief’s 11 Best Games of 2022
Another year has come and gone and so it’s time for our list of the best games of 2022! This list was adapted from our editor-in-chief’s Twitter account so expect the opinions to be short and sweet. #11 – Marvel Snap This game is the spiritual successor to Cartoon Network gToons (look it up). The…
Video Game Tournament 101 (Updated for 2020)
In 2012, I released a video on YouTube called “Organize a Video Game Tournament”. It was a different time on YouTube (this is early 2010s one-shot content at its finest). My brother even made an appearance playing trombone in the background. Production quality aside, the video contains some great tips about video game tournament styles…
APEX Legends: The Best Marketing in Games
Marketing video games, like many other categories of products, used to be a much simpler proposition. In 2020, purchasers of video games are among the savviest and most critical consumers out there, so getting them to pay attention to your game is a harrowing proposition. Having consumers pay for your game is even tougher due…
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Interview
Victor Magnuson is a Game Designer and Producer at Fatshark Games. We sat down and spoke to him over Discord about his transition from finance to game design, the games that Fatshark have developed up to this point and got details about the upcoming Warhammer: Vermintide 2. The game is a follow-up to the breakout hit Warhammer: The…
Three Sequel Ideas for Horizon Zero Dawn
This feature contains major plot spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn. I feel bad for Horizon Zero Dawn. Despite being an incredible game from all angles: storytelling, visuals and gameplay, it will likely always come up second-best in most game players’ minds in 2017. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game that is incredibly similar…
Left Behind Game Club: Ten Games We Should Play Next
My friends and I started a podcast called the Left Behind Game Club three months ago. You can check it out on iTunes and Google Play. On the show, we talk about the games we may have missed, play them and try to re-create the feeling of picking it up on the first day and talking about…