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It's been a little while since we've last seen NuPhy on the site. With my last review in October looking at a sleek low-profile design, we now find ourselves pivoting back to a more bulky and customizable tenkeyless design. With a plethora of features under the hood, let's dive into what exactly...

This is a nicely efficient VN that will take you around 10 hours to read through. There are just a few characters that we ever see (two women, and the protagonist shows up in some CGs), and just a handful of CGs. Additionally, locations and events are limited. It's impressive how limited the...

I struggle to remember the last time I felt so compelled to explore the fringes of a game map. Dread Delusion draws from the likes of Morrowind and Dark Souls to create its dark-fantasy sprawl but to recall a similar case of wanderlust—the irresistible drive to uncover what every ambiguously...

"Comparison is the thief of joy," said former US President Teddy Roosevelt. The gist is that sometimes a comparison can negatively skew our perceptions or diminish our appreciation of individual qualities. Roosevelt didn't have multiplayer Pac-Man in mind when he came up with his oft-quoted...

It's been a long road for Biomutant's Switch release. The action RPG originally came out almost three years ago, back in May 2021, with the Switch version slowly getting pushed back time and time again. However, Experiment 101's debut title is finally here, but it maybe should have been held...

What is time? Does the future come into existence, become the present, then vanish into the past? Or are all times equally real, only our perspective on them changing as we travel towards our destinies? And while we're on the subject, why is it taking so much time to get a "Switch 2"? Not to...

When we reviewed the AYANEO Flip KB not so long ago, we found it to be an interesting device with some unique strengths and weaknesses, but we also commented that the more intriguing of the Flip pair was the Flip DS, which has a second screen, just like the DS and 3DS. Now that we've had the...

On the one hand, the extended Hyperdimension Neptunia property, which has been kicking around since 2010 and the PlayStation 3, has become a familiar comfort. With more than one game released every year (some are remakes, yes, but this is release #26 bearing the Neptunia name), you will by now...

AYANEO has previously made a name for itself in the realm of gaming PC hardware, from portable powerhouses like the Flip DS and Flip KB to tiny desktop devices, such as the AM01 and AM02 'retro' mini computers. It has also dipped a toe into the world of Android-based gaming with the Pocket Air...

Let's just say it up front: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes doesn't match the considerable heights of Matt Reeves' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes. Director Wes Ball does a commendable job maintaining the atmosphere and empathetic approach established by...

After a flood of big-name micro-consoles that includes the NES, SNES, Mega Drive, PC Engine and Amiga, we now have what must rank as the deepest cut so far: the Atari 400 Mini. Based on Atari's range of 8-bit home computers, which first hit the market in 1979, this latest collaboration between...

We reviewed the Anbernic RG35XX Plus a short time ago, and found it to be a solid emulation handheld capable of playing all the way up to the PS1 and Dreamcast era. Now, the Chinese company returns with yet another member of the same family (the 'Plus' was an interaction on the bog-standard...

When playing through Little Kitty, Big City, it's difficult to avoid drawing comparisons with Untitled Goose Game. Both see you play as a cute, mischievous animal, and both have you tackle a series of emergent tasks that often come at the expense of the poor humans that inhabit the surrounding...

From the moment we got a glimpse of Animal Well during an Indie World Showcase last April, it sent tongues wagging with its unique premise and visual identity, becoming an easy add to plenty of 'Most Anticipated' lists. Its association with indie publishing label Bigmode, run by popular YouTuber...

While smartwatches have become popular companions for fitness tracking and smartphone notifications, they are definitely not for everyone. To quote one audience member's comment in one of my previous smartwatch reviews: "I have no need for telling time in 4K". Behind such comments are the often...

One of the finest examples that I can think of that highlight the differences between Western and Eastern game development, and some of the weaknesses that we as a collective industry have in critiquing video games, is to look at Dante's Inferno and El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron...

There is massive money on the table for the first localization outfit that can produce high-quality translations of Chinese-developed games for their Western release. Unfortunately, we don't have that localization infrastructure yet. It has only been in the last decade or so that games from...

Of all the ways to use the mighty Demon Slayer license I honestly did not expect a Mario Party clone to be one of the first. And yet, that's what has happened. Following hot on the heels of the perfectly reasonable slash-em-up from from a few years ago comes Sweep the Board, and it is a whole...

"Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?" It's the immortal words sung by the Insane Clown Posse in their 2009 meme of a song, Miracles, that have stuck with the internet to this day. It's a lyric that I don't particularly spend much time paying heed to, but one that I couldn't help but bring to mind...

Talk to any video game fan over 30 about 3D platformers and they're liable to stare wistfully into the middle distance and start mumbling about the 'golden age.' Once Super Mario 64 arrived and codified the form, the decade straddling the millennium delivered a trove of colourful treasures that...