BURIED STARS
How is almost any anime different, whether it's an RPG, a TV series, or a visual novel? Excessive pop-eyed characters, frilly outfits / hairstyles, hints of sexual perversion and, in…

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CONWAY: DISAPPEARANCE AT DAHLIA VIEW
Connoisseurs of good English detectives, the gaming industry, to put it mildly, does not indulge. But in November, they were rewarded in many ways for their expectations. This is not…

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK — VERTIGO
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" is considered one of the cult director's finest works, with 846 critics putting it in first place on Sight & Sound's list of the greatest films (previously…

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SANDS OF SALZAAR
Sands of Salzaar attracts primarily with its concept: it mixes oriental flavor (the game is made in China, and the action takes place in the desert), a classic RPG with…

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BRIGHT MEMORY: INFINITE
The same Chinese man, a lone hero, hiding under the sign of FYQD-Studio (actually his name is Zhang Xin Cheng; Zeng Xian Cheng), who made a rustle of his Bright…

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BRIGHT MEMORY: INFINITE

The same Chinese man, a lone hero, hiding under the sign of FYQD-Studio (actually his name is Zhang Xin Cheng; Zeng Xian Cheng), who made a rustle of his Bright Memory last year (I wrote about this short but bright beauty), all, of course, a little confused. It seemed that it was a 40-minute demo of a full-fledged game called Bright Memory: Infinite, reminiscent of Shadow Warrior 2. So Infinite came out – and it turned out that she and the first Bright Memory – two different episodes of the main character’s adventures, and the continuation is also short: not 40 minutes, and somewhere a couple of hours. Also, you see, very little for a shooter. Continue reading

DEFEND THE ROOK

Queen, pawns and master
Defend the Rook is stylized as a board game, where we move the pieces of a warrior, a thief, a sorceress and our own castle on the board in turn-by-turn mode, set up traps and defensive towers to fight off attackers. And the Master owns the figures, who thus helps a certain golden queen – she turned to him for help in order to cope with her enemies and capture more gems. Continue reading

WHY CARD SYSTEMS ENLAVE THE INDUSTRY

Simple and clear
Card games are over 600 years old, collectible games are almost 30 years old. Everyone has ever played cards or at least seen how it is done. Therefore, they understand in advance how all card games work in general. Already from the trailer of some action, it is easy to understand card mechanics: everywhere there are analogues of “provocation”, “poison” or “mana”. Continue reading

CONWAY: DISAPPEARANCE AT DAHLIA VIEW
Connoisseurs of good English detectives, the gaming industry, to put it mildly, does not indulge. But in November, they were rewarded in many ways for their expectations. This is not…

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FARMING SIMULATOR 22
In the past decade, a new genre has taken shape in the industry - a simulator of a working profession: a builder, a loader, a bus driver, a miner. Unlike…

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WOLFSTRIDE
Still, finding real diamonds in a pile ... in the basements of Steam is already akin to a drug for me. The next dose was Wolfstride - a game that…

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