E3 2019 Voice-On IMPRESSIONS: Supermarket Shriek (ID@Xbox)

  Title: Supermarket Shriek Publisher(s): Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd. Platform(s): Xbox One, PC Release Date: June 9, 2019 Website / Twitter

In what turned out to be the very last game I played at E3 2019, Supermarket Shriekis one of those games that sounds both insane in concept and yet is incredibly fun to play. The gameplay is simple: navigate a shopping cart containing a shrieking goat and a…

INTERVIEW: Second Order’s Sami Saarinen Talks Claybook

Claybook is an ID@Xbox game that is set in a world made entirely of clay. Due to the various playfields in Claybookbeing made of clay, everything can be shaped, molded, and re-made across the main storyline (separated into books and chapters), across a multi-player mode that supports up to four players, and a sandbox mode that lets you build clay to your heart’s desire. I caught up with Sami…

GDC 2019 Hands-On IMPRESSIONS: Void Bastards

Publisher(s): Humble Bundle (ID@Xbox title) Platform(s): Xbox One, PC (Steam), Mac (possibly) Release Date: Early 2019 Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, YouTube

Void Bastardsis a very clever mash-up of FPS and rogue-like gameplay. In this game, you lead a bunch of prisoners through space in order to collect supplies, obtain fuel and ammo, and make new weapons and tools. The majority…

GDC 2019 Hands-On IMPRESSIONS: Silver Chains

Publisher(s): Head Up Games (ID@Xbox title) Platform(s): Xbox, One, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC (Steam) Release Date: Q3 2019 Website

Silver Chains is an ID@Xbox first-person horror game that has no combat in it. You play as Peter, who explores inside an abandoned mansion that dates back to the very early part of the 1900’s while looking for his family. As there is no fighting in Silver Chains,…

GDC 2019 Hands-ON IMPRESSIONS: HyperDot

Publisher(s): GLITCH (ID@Xbox title) Platform(s): Xbox One, PC Release Date: 2019 Website, Facebook, Twitter

HyperDot was one of the simplest, but most addictive games, that I played at GDC 2019. In HyperDot, the goal is simple in multiplayer: don’t get hit by anything and survive longer than anyone else. Or as the developers told me when I first approached the game: “Dodge Everything.” HyperDotis…

GDC 2019 Hands-On IMPRESSIONS: CrossCode

Publisher(s): Deck13, WhisperGames, DANGEN Entertainment (ID@Xbox title) Platform(s): Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC (Steam) Release Date(s): 2019 (Consoles), Now (PC) Website, Twitter, Facebook, tumblr, YouTube

CrossCode is an SNES-style 2D action RPG that draws clear inspiration from Secret of Mana and The Legend of Zelda with its gameplay that is set in the world of a fictional…

GDC 2019 Hands-On IMPRESSIONS: Cake Bash

Publisher(s): High Tea Frog (ID@Xbox title) Platform(s): Xbox One/Xbox One X, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC (Steam) Release Date: Q1 2020 Website, Twitter, Facebook

Cake Bash was definitely the ‘sweetest’ game, ID@Xbox or otherwise, that I was able to go hands-on with at GDC 2019. Billed as a party game, Cake Bashhas four players go head-to-head with each other to become the tastiest cake. At GDC,…