Fresh Look: Against the Storm Is Building Its Way to the Tabletop

Fresh Look’s Neal Sayatovich takes a break from controller problems and a broken DLC to look ahead to Against the Storm: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of one of his favorite roguelite city builders, coming soon to a game room near you.
Retro Rewind Reopens the Best Video Store in Your Memory

Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator lets players build the VHS rental shop of their dreams, mixing 1990s nostalgia with smart store management, customer requests, employee hiring and plenty of late-fee-era charm.
Cleared Hot Second Campaign Takes Choplifter Into the Jungle

MicroProse and Not Knowing Corporation today announced that Jungle Storm, the second campaign for Cleared Hot, launches on October 15 as a free update for everyone who owns the game. It’s available on Steam. The new campaign brings nine missions, with playtime comparable to Chapter 1, and sends players into rain and lightning against a […]
Why Fishing Keeps Showing Up as a Game Design Theme Across Every Platform

Fishing is one of the strangest success stories in game design. The actual activity involves long periods of waiting punctuated by brief moments of action, which is close to the opposite of what most game designers try to engineer. And yet fishing has become one of the most consistently recurring themes in gaming, showing up […]
