by ·Comments Off on Dive in to the lurid psychedelic world of Proteus to learn first-person controls

Proteus is a sharp departure from what most people think of when they start talking about video games. Set in a randomly generated psychedelic landscape, the aim of the game is to…

…and here we hit upon the thing that makes Proteus a bit of a talking point for some people. The game does not give you any clear goals or win conditions.

Proteus at sunset

Proteus uses something that many games forget about: Colour.

The beautiful, colourful and calming stress-free landscape of Proteus does make it perfect for one thing and that is learning how to control games played in a first person perspective.

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hellooooHunting giant monsters with your friends or being a giant monster hell-bent on destroying your friends sounds like an excellent pitch for an online multiplayer game to me. Evolve lets you hunt monsters and gives you the option to become the monster yourself if you feel like it.

Is it any good? I’ll be running a proper review soon once I put a few more hours into it, but here are nine things that you can love about stomping around as a monster, or chasing after a monster that’s stomping around in Evolve.

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by ·Comments Off on This is how The Last of Us will make you cry

The Last of UsThe Last of Us is a zombie apocalypse survival adventure game that will push your emotional buttons.

If it does not make you cry, it will at least give it a good go and at the very least, you will experience your brain triggering that cry response that simulates the feeling of a golf ball being lodged in the back of your throat.

Read on for how The Last of Us will make you want to cry and generally make you feel at the end of your emotional tether.

(This post includes some mild spoilers about things that happen early on in the game, but stuff that I’m glad was not spoiled for me.)

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Saints Row IVSaints Row IV might be the best open world sandbox game ever made and part of the reason for this is because it feels weirdly lacking in the mindless violence department.

This is a game that was refused classification in Australia, features guns, car-jacking, super powered hand-to-hand combat, explosions and the ability to take hostages and use them as human shields, so how can anyone argue that this is anything other than horribly violent? It certainly appears to be trying to be controversial and outrageous.

Read on for 10 reasons as to why Saints Row IV is a pussy cat at heart, albeit a sweary pussy cat with a gun.

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by ·Comments Off on No bad feelings about this Star Wars video game package

Knights of the Old RepublicBuilding up your video game collection can seem like an expensive task once people start throwing recommendations your way for things you absolutely must play. Thankfully, this hobby is fast becoming much cheaper thanks to people like the Humble team who put together bundles of games for the price of basically-how-much-have-you-got.

Their latest collection bolstering package is the Humble Star Wars Bundle, which is unsurprisingly themed around Star Wars video games.

The bundle is by no means every best Star Wars video game, but if you elect to spend at least $12 (approximately eight of our English pounds) you’ll be getting nine varied and mostly enjoyable games, including a couple of classics.

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