I got a chance to speak with CEO Anna Salomaa and Creative Director Jussi Autio from Resistance Games about their first title: COMPANY OF CRIME. Set during the cultural upheaval of 1960s London, the massive and sprawling strategy game sees you taking control of gangland territories as you build a
Monsters are easy. Monsters can be outrun, outgunned, and outwitted. Monsters have a weakness. Monsters have a backstory and lore that eventually becomes their downfall. Even the great Lovecraftian demons stay in the deep dark recesses of space, where they sleep and wait. Hate is worse. Hate is like quicksilver.
It’s a game about spitting. That’s the joke, and if that doesn’t amuse you, chances are that it’s not worth even giving the game a go in the first place. SPITLINGS requires a certain amount of bad taste to appreciate some of the good taste that
Released originally on the PlayStation 4 in 2017, HORIZON ZERO DAWN came seemingly out of nowhere and took the gaming world by a storm. An original IP, featuring a female protagonist, set in a world populated by machine animals like we hadn’t seen before; it surprised everyone by selling
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★★ | Undead husk
The ROCK OF AGES series is soon ten years old and includes now three games, plus DLCs. That’s probably the most surprising thing about all this. What started as a Terry Gilliam inspired pastiche built on some truly terrible dad-jokes has become something of a cult favorite over the
Documentary
★★★★★ | Fighting with power On the day that Donald Trump was elected president, Michael Tubbs became the youngest and first African-American mayor for the town of Stockton, California. A city of abysmal ratings across the board, where poverty and crime were daily occurrences. As Washington and the world braced for the
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★★ | Flat tire
The new (ab)normal is before us and, if we don’t screw it up royally, in just under a month we’ll be treated with a brand new serving of Night Visions greatness. The first genre festival of the decade emerges from the depths of COVID19 isolation with 23
A lot can change in a decade and a half, and a lot can stay absolutely the same. For evidence of this, look no further than DESTROY ALL HUMANS, the remake of the 2005 PS2/Xbox title coming out July 28 on the Xbox One, PC, Stadia, and PS4. Superficially
FALL GUYS is a party platformer from Mediatonic, the folks behind titles like HATOFUL BOYFRIEND and the GEARS POP! Mobile game. Releasing in early August of 2020, distributor Devolver Digital arranged a beta weekend to try out the anticipated title at length, which Toisto was lucky enough to attend. We’
This review is a part of our Visions Du Réel 2020 summer coverage. In 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. It was a global catastrophe that threatened to wipe out life as we know it on a previously unimaginable scale. By throwing human suffering and endless
