“Ys X: Proud Nordics” is an updated version of the tenth mainline game in the storied “Ys” series. While maintaining the simple foundations that make the games fun, a plethora of mechanics and ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

Games are often at their funniest when they’re not trying to be. It’s the Skyrim NPC who’s determined to deliver their stock line, apparently totally unperturbed by the dragon attack happening just ...

Adventure is one of the most overused words in games, and somehow one of the most misunderstood. We throw it around for anything with a big map and a vague promise of freedom, but very few games ...

The term ‘adventure’ covers a lot of different video games. Sure, you’ve got true action-adventure games, like Tomb Raider. But plenty of other games, be they story-driven or 2D side-scrolling, also ...

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You might think Hidden Object Adventure (HOA) games peaked in the Big Fish era. You would be dead wrong. The genre changed shape. As mobile gaming matures, comfort-first puzzle play keeps winning ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

Following on from the wonderful It Takes Two, developer Hazelight took things to the next level when it comes to scale in Split Fiction and continued to hone its craft as the modern-day masters of the ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...