Somehow, it’s possible to beat the entirety of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave without recruiting its four central characters, The Flame Lords. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave doesn’t follow the familiar structure laid out in most other games from Nintendo’s SRPG series. In this one, players create their own character who exists in an apocalyptic present day […]
Gabe Newell had a “room full of knives and blades and swords,” says Counter-Strike co-creator

Gabe Newell – billionaire yacht enthusiast, daily Dota 2 player, Valve co-founder. Now, you can also add bladed weapon maestro to his resume, according to Counter Strike co-creator Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le. The co-developer of the Half-Life mod that spawned the ultra popular Counter-Strike series, Le recently talked to Indie Game Joe about his experience working […]
2019Uncharted 2’s brilliance isn’t just about guns and trains, it’s about people

The PS3’s legacy may very well be the perfection of the tightly focused 10-hour story campaign. If you define it that way, then Uncharted 2: Among Thieves could claim to be the game of that generation; not the best game, but the one that is emblematic of tightly bound adventures built on the thrills of […]
2019CD Projekt Red worked backwards from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s brutal final choice

Cyberpunk 2077‘s excellent spy thriller expansion, Phantom Liberty, is three years old now. To mark the anniversary, Cyberpunk 2 associate game director and the expansion’s lead quest designer Pawel Sasko looked back on the project with a few new details. First up, it’s pretty hard to ignore the stomping elephant in the room of Cyberpunk […]
2019Minecraft sells over 425 million copies and gets its first new dimension in 14 years

Minecraft’s reign as the blocky king of the sandbox genre has lasted for well over a decade, but the crafty survival game is still as popular as ever. This year’s Minecraft Live event revealed the game’s getting its first new dimension in nearly 15 years, after selling a whopping 425 million copies altogether. Lots to […]
2019Godzilla Minus Zero review: “Easily one of the best films of the year”

Godzilla is back. Three years after Godzilla Minus One rampaged onto screens and blew the world away, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki returns with a follow-up that’s bigger, bolder, and more ambitious than its predecessor. Minus Zero picks up two years after the events of the first film, in a Tokyo that is now plagued by a […]
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