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We had a lot of affection for Escape Academy, handing it a 4/5 in review, so we jumped at the chance to get locked in a room with its creators, Coin Crew Games.

It’s not your average adventure game. Beacon Pines is the kind of game that would welcome an interview with its creators, as we have so many questions about its creation and reactions. Colour us lucky, then, that we got a chance to do exactly that.

We face many monsters on the Xbox. So many, in fact, that they can begin to look like one another and lose the fear factor. Bramble: The Mountain King has a plan to resolve this problem, and the solution comes from storybooks - we jumped at the chance to interview two of the creative minds behind it.

There’s something of an adventure game resurgence going on, as Monkey Island returns with Ron Gilbert at the helm. It’s a perfect time, then, nearly thirty years after the original, for Simon the Sorcerer to make its return. Developed by Smallthing Studios, Simon the Sorcerer Origins is picking up the baton from where Adventure Soft left off. 

With so much going on in Dicey Dungeons, we thought it would be a fine time to chat with its originator and sole developer-designer, Terry Cavanagh. We had a lot to ask after falling under the spell of its new Reunion DLC

Following the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, there were few games that left a lasting impression as much as The Last Case of Benedict Fox. Designed and developed by the relatively unknown Plot Twist studio, it oozed confidence. We were given the opportunity to interview creative director Bartek, who was able to take us on a guided tour through its macabre halls.The horror, the horror…

Everyone likes dinosaurs. It's that appeal which has allowed Frontier Developments to find success with their Jurassic World series of games, with the latest - Jurassic World Evolution 2 - having just been updated with a new Dominion Biosyn Expansion, inspired by the film, Jurassic World Dominion.

If anyone knows how to make an F1 game, it's Codemasters.

It’s not every day that our loves for gaming and cycling converge, but with the release of the Tour de France 2022 and Pro Cycling Manager 2022 games on Xbox, PlayStation and PC, that love gets to reach all-new heights. It’s the Nacon and Cyanide Studios teams who are behind the annual editions and so we reached out to see if we could find out more about what goes in to the development of these cycling games. 

We’re nerds, and two topics that get us hot around the collar are Arthurian legends and the tales of HP Lovecraft. Now, we didn’t expect those two to necessarily meet, but meet they have, all within the upcoming The Hand of Merlin. To help us on that journey, Room-C Games offered us a chat with their CEO and founder, Robert Sajko.

Dan Beckerton, developer of Spirittea, is the kind of person to make you ashamed with how much you’ve achieved in life. He’s the developer of beautiful nurturing sim Spirittea, creating something to rival Stardew Valley, but he’s also managed to do it all on his lonesome. We jumped at the opportunity to interview him.

Chernobylite is not a brand new game, after-all, it first released back in 2021. But it has just recently been updated to make the most of the next-gen consoles of Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. We wanted to know exactly what was to be found in the upgrade and so reached out to The Farm 51 in hope they could answer us a few questions. They were more than happy to oblige…

We fast became big fans of Orcs Must Die! 3 when it released on Xbox, PlayStation and PC in 2021. In fact, killing those Orcs with a variety of weapons easily helped pass a ton of time. So when Robot Entertainment continued to expand the base game with the Tipping the Scales expansion, we just had to find out more. Thankfully the Game Director - Jerome K. Jones - was on hand to fill in the details…

Sometimes you just want a spot of mindless action, ludicrous explosions and… cats. Knowing this eternal truth, Chunkybox Games have put together Wildcat Gun Machine, the purest articulation of violence and felines that we’ve seen this side of Thundercats. To better understand this festival of gore, we got in touch with the mysterious ‘Dave’, the one-man-band behind Wildcat Gun Machine, and asked him some questions.

Over recent months Atari have made a bit of an impression on the gaming world, with the reboot and revamp of not just the iconic name, but some classic games through their Recharged series - Centipede, Black Widow, Asteroids and Breakout. With a rich history behind them, we reached out to Atari to find out what has been behind their resurgence - Wade Rosen, Atari CEO was more than happy to tell all.