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Matt Bailey, 26, from Croydon, London, is a staff writer and assistant editor for FlickLuster. He has freelanced for publications including mxdwn UK, GameGrin, Project Icarus Gaming, and The Nerd ...

Ebisugaoka’s version of the Fog World progressively becomes more infested with various red coloured fauna. Set in the 1960s, Silent Hill f covers the story of Hinako and her friends trying to survive ...

I’m fairly new to the cozy genre. While I usually love a good horror game or RPG, I do often have the urge to sit down with a game that will soothe me rather than scare the heebie-jeebies out of me.

I have three games downloaded on my phone. Two of them are Holedown and One More Brick 2, which are both, as you might have surmised, brick breaker games. As a kid, I’d often forsake my Nintendo 64 to ...

Last year, Relic Entertainment released Anniversary Editions of their first two Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War games. And now, a year after that, we’re getting Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Definitive ...

Simon Lukasik’s psychological horror game, Bad Cheese, is based on 1920s rubber hose animation, such as Steamboat Willie (which became public domain in 2024), but tells a darker story of a mouse ...

For Star Wars fans, May is the month of celebrating our beloved galaxy far, far away. May the Fourth (be with you) has been, to its fans, the ringing of the bell for sharing the love we have over ...

Vincent Adinolfi’s Heartworm wears its inspiration drawn from classic 1990s survival horror games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill on its sleeve. Its themes and setting are reminiscent of Silent ...

Stasis, initially released in 2015, is the first game set The Brotherhood’s point-and-click horror “Stasis” universe, followed by the free-to-play Cayne, and then Stasis: Bone Totem. After I played ...

One of the most interesting aspects of modern metroidvanias is the balance between designing early and late areas and/or combat encounters. If a boss can be reached at a point before obtaining a ...

With the surprise announcement of a Still Wakes the Deep DLC during this year’s string of summer games showcases (but not actually shown during a showcase, funnily enough), fans of The Chinese Room’s ...