☁️ Cloudpunk | Review | PS4 | "Never before have I been so sad whilst holding a controller" ☁️ @ionlands #IndieGames #GameDev

Developer: ION Lands

Platform Reviewed: PS4 

Rating:  5/10 (MELTING)

This is not the review I wanted to write. 

Upon booting up Cloudpunk, ION Lands’ voxel-tastic cyberpunk delivery simulator, despite some clear technical issues, I was HOOKED. 

Sadly, eight hours into the game, the issues won out and I was forced to give up entirely. I can genuinely say that this would have featured in my end of year selection but in its current state, it’s a hard one to recommend and instead currently stands as one of the most infuriating gaming moments of the year for me.

🕶️🎰 VR and How it is Impacting Online Slots 🎰🕶️

Over the years the online slot industry has proven itself to be incredibly adept at using new technology to make its games even more popular amongst the gamblers of the world, and it has got to the point where the online slot industry dwarfs any other part of the overall gambling market in 2020. There are far more people gambling online, for example, and the vast majority of those are doing so on the range of excellent modern online slots available today. 

Playing slots like Centurion by Inspired Gaming can make it seem as though the market has reached the end of its development, as these games really are just that good. But here’s the thing: the slots industry has never been one to sit still, and ever since Charles D. Fey’s day it has constantly sought to be as innovative as possible. The most exciting new development in the field has got to be VR in regard to online slots, a new piece of technology that could flip the entire industry on its head. But what is VR, and how is it impacting online slots at www.wizardslots.com? Read ahead to find out! 

🎮 Gioteck Controllers Review| WX-4 and JC-20 🎮 @GioteckArmy

Gioteck WX-4 Wired (2.5m cable) / Wireless & JC-20 

Gaming controllers are expensive (I look at YOU Nintendo Joy-Cons) and it’s always good to have a solid replacement available at a decent price. 

Gioteck’s WX-4 range caters for PC, PS3 and Switch whilst the JC-20’s are their version of the Nintendo Joy-Cons. 

Here, I’ll be taking a look at how they rate as replacements for the inevitable Joy-Con issues or simply an addition to your accessory collection for multiplayer action.

🚀 Jets N Guns 2 | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A Tooled-Up Shooter That Shines in Co-Op" 🚀 @rakeingrass #IndieGames #GameDev

Game Title: Jets N Guns 2

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: 9/10 (ICE COOL)

Jets N Guns 2 Developer Rake In Grass has delivered unto us one of the finest side-scrolling shooters ever made.

*sigh* I suppose I’d better say more.

🕵️ Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A moustache-twirling fun adventure" 🕵️ @Microids_off #IndieGames #GameDev

Game Title: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Originally released on PC in 2016 and now ported to Switch, the ABC Murders are based on the book of the same name and follows the plot relatively closely, with some elements removed for pacing purposes.

Set in England during 1935, the game sees the Belgian detective in his London home with a close associate, Hastings. Receiving a mysterious letter from someone identifying themselves as ‘A.B.C’, Poirot heads to Andover to find out more about these alphabetical atrocities.

🏝️💥 Game Title: Crysis Remastered | Review | PS4 | "A seminal title that still holds up" 💥🏝️ @Crysis #CrysisRemastered

Game Title: Crysis Remastered

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Although I didn’t play much Crysis when it came out (due to a mix of always having under-powered PCs and a personal gaming void during 2007-2009) I’m acutely aware of the impact that it had and so I leapt at the chance to cover it, in remastered form.

⚔️ 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil | Review | Nintendo Switch | "An epic adventure in which you slaughter thousands and loot them ALL" ⚔️ @Valorware #GameDev #IndieGames

Game Title: 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Having never played any previous games in the series and admittedly a being little put off by the games mobile roots, it was a gameplay video on YouTube that really drew me into the grandly-titled 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil. 

It struck me as a saucy mix of Diablo and Gauntlet, which is a fair approximation of what you will spend dozens upon dozens of hours doing. 

You WILL hack, you WILL slash.

🐵 The Survivalists | PC | Ten minute Taster | Part II | "There Be Treasure Chests!!" 🐵 @SurvivalistsT17 #IndieGames #GameDev

 
In The Survivalists The island is alive! 

Your newfound home will change with day/night cycles as you explore and uncover its secrets. 

Hunt (or be hunted by!) animals for food and an array of mythical enemies, who aren’t necessarily pleased to see you. 

Get quests from a Mysterious Stranger or find them washed up on the shore. 

Prepare to trek into a procedurally generated wilderness, with a variety of biomes, for an adventure that’s unique to every player.

🗡️ DEADSIDE | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Running & getting Gunned" 🗡️ @DeadsideGame #GameDev #IndieGame #EarlyAccess

Deadside is a multiplayer shooter with a large open world and wide-open gameplay possibilities.

🥊 Creepy Brawlers | Review | Nintendo Switch | "Undead Punch Out" 🥊 @megacatstudios #IndieGames #GameDev

Creepy Brawlers is a retro-style boxing game that takes its inspirations from the Punch-Out series on the NES and then moulds that with a B Movie horror feel.

You walk into a cinema and then wake up in a ghoulish boxing tournament with no memory of how he got there.

You’ll then be tasked with boxing your way through a horror movie-themed set of deadly opponents.

🐒🏝️ "Secrets of Monkey Island" charity event this Friday! 🐒🏝️ #RetroGaming #SecretOfMonkeyIsland

The Secret of Monkey Island turns 30 this October, and The Video Game History Foundation is celebrating by diving deep into its creation with Ron Gilbert...and the game's original source code!

🐒🏝️ The Survivalists | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Time For Some Monkey Business" 🐒🏝️ @SurvivalistsT17 #IndieGames #GameDev

 

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. 

Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea - Episode 38: "Bashed At The Bridge!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

 

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🥶 We Were Here Together | Review | XBOX | *A Co-Op Puzzler that you should definitely bring in from the cold* 🥶 @WeWereHereGame #IndieGames #GameDev

Long-time readers of my articles will know that co-op gaming really lifts me into the sky on wings of sunshine and so, when I received a couple of review codes for We Were Here Together, a first-person puzzle adventure, I instantly roped my brother in for some co-operative gold.

Game Title: We Were Here Together

Platform Reviewed: Xbox One

Rating: ICE COOL 8

🧦 Paper Beast: Folded Edition | Review | "Enter Paper Beast, which strolled into my life and promptly sent my socks flying off" 🧦 @PixelHunted #GameDev #IndieGames

Perhaps I’ve been spoiled but it takes a lot for a game to impress me. 

Gigantic, opulent open-world map? Chuck it on the pile with the rest. 

A hundred-hour epic adventure? I’ve got a life dammit. 

Incredibly complex vehicular simulation? Ah, I’ll just play more Mario Kart.

Enter Paper Beast, which strolled into my life and promptly sent my socks flying off. 

🐒🏝️ The secret(s) of Monkey Island will be revealed on Oct. 30 when The Video Game Source Project deconstructs a beloved classic 🐒🏝️ #Retrogaming

The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF), a nonprofit that brings old video games back to life by preserving, celebrating, and teaching their history, has unveiled the Video Game Source Project, an effort to save and study source code and related development materials before the stories around these games' creation are lost forever.

🧁 Undead Darlings | A Dungeon Crawler With A Difference 🧁 @SekaiGames_ #GameDev #IndieGames

We just stumbled across this dungeon crawler announcement and it has piqued our interest...

Undead Darlings * no cure for love * Available Now on Switch & PS4

Sekai Games, with developer Mr.Tired Media, present the dungeon-crawler, turn-based, combat and visual novel hybrid Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~, which is now available on Nintendo Switch™ and PS4™!

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea | Coca Cola Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg | Episode 37: "Silenzi Silences The Critics" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🍷➕🎮 Vino + Video Games 🍷➕🎮 @TNTracklists

Alex has been a long-time friend of Games Freezer. 

A rising talent in the Welsh wine scene, he has taken some time out of his busy schedule of sippin’ and spittin’ (also the names of his pet hamsters) to answer some of the most pertinent questions asked by those of us that like to combine gaming and grenache. 

🗡️ Partisans 1941 | Ten Minute Taster | PC | "Stealth Kills & Knife Throwing" 🗡️ #IndieGames #GameDev

Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines, you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.