We are the Dwarves Gravity is heartless The human brain is incapable of grasping the cosmos—its distances, its matter, perhaps even its essence. But imagine that you are a gnome who spends his whole life underground. What will space be for you in this case? Perhaps the blackness of unexplored caves and the distant vaults above your head … Read more
ZHEROS It’s more fun together While millions let their enemies in on kebabs in God of War, thousands quietly bask in the lamp beams of modest arcade runners like the Lego series. There, too, there is more than enough violence, and the number of plastic corpses would make Kratos turn pale even more. Only there is no … Read more
Deponia Doomsday Endless end Many stories tell of how a brave hero decides to give his life for the common good. How, thanks to his sacrifice, good wins, and saved people live happily ever after. But the hero … he is not allowed to see this ending. It is not given to heroes to know whether their … Read more
Hitman Bald on call Stealth is a genre that develops in two directions at once. Some developers focus on the helplessness of the character, who is forced to hide from the enemy in order to save his life. Others are involved in the part of the genre that is responsible for the action. The second … Read more
Hard West: Scars of Freedom Walking Runaways Like any of the original campaigns, Scars of Freedom offers players a new experience without changing the core mechanics. Firstly, there are two main characters at once, traveling around the global map at different times and telling their stories. One is a runaway slave who, during an unsuccessful escape, broke … Read more
The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 2: Give No Shelter deadly escape At an accelerated pace, Telltale Games is preparing us for the third season of their own The Walking Dead. Episodes of the Michonne mini-series are released every month, but this is not the result of a hacky approach: it’s just that the episodes are … Read more
Forced showdown Gods of the Arena Having created a good role-playing action called Forced, the BetaDwarf studio did not make a second part for it. And why, if you can take the same gameplay and build an even more dynamic game out of it, full of randomness and humor? Instead of Forced 2, Forced Showdown was born … Read more
We are the Dwarves Gravity is heartless The human brain is incapable of grasping the cosmos—its distances, its matter, perhaps even its essence. But imagine that you are a gnome who spends his whole life underground. What will space be for you in this case? Perhaps the blackness of unexplored caves and the distant vaults above your head … Read more
Kingdom Wars 2: Battles Let the sequel revive the dead Creating something really new, large-scale, and memorable is not easy even for those who already have a number of landmark projects under their belt. For example, Reverie World Studios, whose employees once worked on Age of Empires 2, once decided to build a real-time strategy … Read more
Ratchet & Clank Once More, with Feeling In this age of regular HD re-releases, sometimes you start to forget that real remakes are a completely different thing. Updating the mechanics, polishing the design, balancing the difficulty with the changes made, redrawing the graphics – few people will go to such difficulties now when you can … Read more