Nate and Julie
Summer Game Fest 2024: Five indie-dense shows on Day 3 leveled us with a near-perfect lineup
"I'm assembling a team..." Day 3 of Summer Game Fest gave us some of the most memorable game reveals we've seen in a while.
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Nate and Julie
Jun 88 min read
Summer Game Fest 2024: A vibe check on Day 2's showcases
It's a summer night and the vibes are right to hash out today's Access-Ability, Summer Game Fest, Day of the Devs & Devolver Direct shows.
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Nate and Julie
Jun 710 min read
Summer Game Fest 2024: Every game shown at this year's Guerrilla Collective
WHO'S GOT THE TIME? Get a handy list of every game showed at Guerrilla Collective 2024.
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Nate and Julie
Jun 77 min read
Summer Game Fest 2024: 6 standout games from Day 1's Guerrilla Collective
Summer Game Fest 2024 gets a strong opener with 73 games plus a publisher showcase from Guerrilla Collective.
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Nate Hermanson
Jun 32 min read
Summer Game Fest 2024: June's showcase schedule
We're co-streaming these 13 Summer Game Fest-adjacent events from June 6-10!
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Nate Hermanson
May 237 min read
REVIEW: Penny's Big Breakaway is 2024's best Dreamcast game
Sonic's speed. Mario's precision. Penny's sentient yo-yo. Evening Star's retro-inspired platformer has a recipe for success.
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Nate Hermanson
May 1310 min read
9 games you need to remember from LudoNarraCon 2024
The 9 games in this list awed us, made us cry, scared us, and showcased the artistry in narrative games just as LudoNarraCon intended.
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Nate Hermanson
May 105 min read
LudoNarraCon Mini-Preview: Yoink the words straight out of mouths in Great God Grove
Great Googly Moogly, Great God Grove has a demo out for LudoNarraCon and it's all we could've hoped from the creators of Smile for Me.
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Nate Hermanson
May 96 min read
LudoNarraCon Mini-Preview: Angeline Era's bumpslashing adventure fills an unexpected need
Angeline Era is a standout demo from LudoNarraCon 2024, leveraging a nostalgic spin but a fresh and unique voice.
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Nate Hermanson
May 19 min read
Early Access Check-in: Abiotic Factor is already one of my favorite games of 2024
Abiotic Factor is packed with the sci-fi flavors of Half-Life and Control, sprinkled with an undeniable cheeky dorkiness.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 309 min read
Playdate's Pulp stirs up creative juices and makes game dev accessible
We talked with AlternateHamlet, George Banks, and Ron Lent about how the easy-to-use Pulp engine can make a game dev out of nearly anyone.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 277 min read
REVIEW: Lucas Pope's silly community center work sim Mars After Midnight demands to be let into your Playdate library
Lucas Pope's 'Papers, Please-lite' for Playdate is all alien community-building charm.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 168 min read
REVIEW: Life Eater is Strange Scaffold's most twisted game yet (and they made a black market organ trading sim)
Being a weird little freak behind my computer screen because god told me to.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 158 min read
REVIEW: Harold Halibut is a grand artistic achievement and a humbly quiet adventure
A story about feeling different than the people around you and struggling to find purpose in a world that tells you what your purpose is.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 1217 min read
The Playdate Season 1 Graduating Class: Handing out superlatives to all 24 games
The who's who of Playdate Season 1. We're circling our faves in the yearbook and handing out superlatives to these 24 pack-in games.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 107 min read
REVIEW: Botany Manor is an accessibly cozy and surprisingly defiant escape room puzzler
Botany Manor: Gently compelling and seeded with cleverness.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 77 min read
Early Access Check-in: Lightyear Frontier's great prelude to more farming mech sim action to come
We're just a couple'a stocky farmers inside giant mechs inside a lonely, alien world.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 47 min read
REVIEW: Death Trick: Double Blind has more twists and turns than a high-flying acrobat
A slow burn of a mystery — full of surprising warmth, misdirection, tension, and surprise.
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Nate Hermanson
Apr 14 min read
How the Playdate's crank reignited my passion
This little box with a crank is full of some of the most creative bits of game design I've seen in years.
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Nate Hermanson
Mar 288 min read
REVIEW: Pepper Grinder is a drillin' platformer that's smooth as butter
Thrilling drilling and buttery smooth platforming. If this Pepper Grinder asked me to "say when" I simply wouldn't.
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