splendid isolation
ICARUS
Dean Hall is a very controversial figure in the modern gaming industry. The creator of the great modification for ArmA II called DayZ was never able to bring it to mind as an independent project, leaving his brainchild to other developers. The former New Zealand military man himself, and now a game designer, decided to create without looking at major publishers and in 2014 founded his own studio RocketWerkz, which was supposed to, as the slogan on the Twitter page says, “make cool games” (We make cool games) . Continue reading
THUNDER TIER ONE
Another tactical shooter? It sounds so ordinary that in order to attract attention to a new project in this genre, you need to at least somehow stand out from the crowd, in which there is always something to choose from: action movies for single passage and designed for multiplayer, in a fantastic setting and in a realistic, complex and arcade. Quantity, however, does not always translate into quality, and it is not so easy to find a really high-quality shooter even in our time full of releases. Continue reading
CHORUS
We have not seen good news in the genre of space simulators for a long time. Yes, there were additions to X3 and X4, but these are additions, and also in many ways crooked (especially X4: Cradle of Humanity). There is Elite Dangerous, which was released, however, back in 2014, and there is Star Citizen, which I don’t even want to write about – you yourself know everything, either a scam, or a long-term construction, or a scam long-term construction … Continue reading