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How Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy puts this indie studio's Sicilian roots front and centre

By Alan Wen Published

The 'neo-giallo' survival horror's conclusion of its trilogy is powered by Unreal Engine 5.

Video Game Design
A game screen shows an armed blue-haired woman facing zombies in a bloody subway station littered with bodies.
Nightmare Operator is like Resident Evil 4 and Shin Megami Tensei had a PS1 baby, then taught it fighting-game mechanics

By Alan Wen Published

Nolan Joseph explains how DDDistortion uses modern tools to recreate a readable retro aesthetic.

Video Game Design
As a longtime fan, I was disappointed with the Crazy Taxi: World Tour Gamescom demo

By Alan Wen Published

Some familiar hallmarks carry over in this open-world reboot, but it's just not as crazy.

Gaming
This indie tactics game is a tribute to 80s glam metal with some ingenious low-tech solutions

By Alan Wen Published

Ichigoichie's David Ventura talks glam metal inspirations and reusing past ideas for Tactichord: Glam Strategy, a tactics game turned up to 11.

Gaming
Pen and ink art for a video game
How Origame Digital built a “souped-up PS2” Lovecraftian horror game about penguins

By Alan Wen Published

Origame Digital's Tali Faulkner reveals how penguins, Nazis and Lovecraft collide in this brilliantly weird Antarctic horror game.

Video Game Design
Art of a cowboy in a fantasy setting
Guns of Eschaton turns Viktor Antonov's final game into a nightmare Western shooter

By Alan Wen Published

The late art director's final game takes you to the end of the world in 19th-century America.

Gaming
Colourful screens from indie game Screenbound; shows a player holding a yellow handheld console displaying a 2D game that mirrors the surrounding 3D environment perfectly.
How Screenbound's impossible '5D' platformer concept became a real game

By Alan Wen Published

Radical Forge technical artist Lyra Owen shares insights on turning Screenbound's 'mockups' into a playable game that makes sense between 2D and 3D worlds.

Video Game Design
Retro game boxes
These '90s classics are brutally hard – but that's exactly why you should play them again

By Ian Dean Published

Disney Afternoon Collection and Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition remind us why challenging games are hard to put down.

Gaming
Concept art of bird people for a video game
This dark Slavic fairy-tale game is like Devil May Cry with ballet combat

By Alan Wen Published

Tsareva: Age of Tales' combat is actually based on mo-cap from a real prima ballerina.

Video Game Design
Three women wearing nerdy, Victorian, and flapper outfits.
This indie game is turning dressmaking into the ultimate creative fantasy

By Alan Wen Published

How a dream of becoming a costume designer became Dressmaker, a cosy crafting game.

Video Game Design
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