The team at Outplay has released its latest title, Mystery Match. It's, surprisingly enough, a match three game, in which players must make chains of three or more jewels, to remove them from the playing area. Unlike the 800lb Gorilla of sweet-toothed all consuming Candy Crush, Mystery Match has a far more fascinating theme. Set …
GTA V Is The UK’s Best-Selling Game, Like, EVER
Since GTA V came out last September, it's done rather well. Seven Guinness records broken. Enormous first day sales. A billion dollars generated in the first three days and apparently making more money than the entire global music industry in its first month. This was then complemented with a range of awards, trophies, prizes and …
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Introducing QUIJA
QUIJA READING GAMES is a twenty-page perzine created by Mitch Alexander that gives a brief insight into one person's perspective on the possible intersections of non-heterosexual+noncisgender life and games, discussing and exploring how game design, criticism, theory and play can be impacted by queer issues and vice versa. QUIJA READING GAMES is intended for any …
OUT NOW – Smash Doors
Opportunity. That's what comes a knocking at your door. You can seize fortune by the forelock or look a gift horse in the mouth, but not if it comes bearing gifts. How often have you heard, or used, or been needlessly confused by any of the above expressions? If you've anything like us, then it's …
Go Boldly – Distant Star: Revenant Fleet OUT NOW
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is a brand new release from Edinburgh's Blazing Griffin. It is a real-time, space-strategy game for PC, featuring fleet-based combat, a dynamically generated galaxy, and an evolving narrative that creates a different experience every time the game is played. The company is positioning the game as a rogue-like meets strategy experience. …
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Hunted Cow Unleashes Hell
Hunted Cow are back. After a fallow period of, oooooh, almost a fortnight, since the company's last release (Eldevin on Steam), Scotland's hardest working development studio is back with a brand new adventure. HELL is a turn-based fantasy game in which the players will take command of both factions in this epic confrontation between the …
OUT NOW – Seek – New From Five Pixels
Five Pixels is one of the winning teams from this year's Dare To Be Digital. Seek is their first game. It was released in early November and has already scooped a TIGA award for the Best Student Game. Seek is a first person game in which the player must find their friends, who are lost …
OUT NOW – Eldevin On Steam
The Hunted Cow team has quite a year in 2014. They've released a huge array of games, made deals with two board game manufacturers, increased their presence in the mobile market and generally been one of the most active AND high profile game developers (and publishers) in the country. They're showing no sign of slowing …
OUT NOW – High Steaks! New From Future Fossil
Scientists. From the amiable if eccentric lab-coated boffins of British fame, to the megalomaniacal 'Fools! I'll show them. I'll show ALL of them! Mwah ha ha...!' Frankenstein-esque human centipede creators, they love meddling in things they ought not to. And if you're meddling with things you ought not to, then clearly, second only to building …
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OUT NOW – SAS Zombie Assault 4
Zombies. They're everywhere. Rising from the dead, lurching around corners, falling to pieces (yet inexplicably failing to be eaten by starving dogs, packs of wolves or the more ubiquitous bacteria...) And of course, they're always, always looking for human flesh and/or brains. It's a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which many would become mad - and many …