Mild Language Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Aug 02, 2018 No. of Players: 1 player Category: Arcade, Action, Simulation, Platformer Publisher: tinyBuild Games Developer: Torched Hill The middle of August is a critical time for soccer fans as the top leagues in the world are all beginning to kick off their new seasons. The optimism a new season brings after a long summer of…
(August 9th, 2018) – Post-Rock/Ambient experimental experts This Will Destroy You are making a triumphant return with a double whammy announcement of a North American headlining tour AND a 5th Studio LP. The tour will follow the release of the band’s fifth studio full-length, set to drop September 28th, via Dark Operative. Stay tuned, as there are more details to…
Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence’ Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Aug 02, 2018 No. of Players: 2 players simultaneous Category: Strategy, Multiplayer, Party Publisher: Vile Monarch Developer: Vile Monarch What does one call a platoon of burly men who love to drink and party? Okay, aside from frat boys? You call them your troop in the Vile…
The American author Allen Klein once famously said, “A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.” What he alludes to is the concepts of having a more grounded worldview. As conscious, self-centered beings, our experience in life is inherently a subjective one; too often are we steeped so far into our own…
Fantasy Violence Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Jul 23, 2018 No. of Players: 1 player Category: Puzzle, Adventure, Action Publisher: GAMEPOCH Developer: Infinite Monkeys Entertainment Ltd. The Chinese philosophical concept of Yin and Yang is used to show how seemingly opposite and contrary forces may be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent. These dualities include such things as light and dark; fire and water; life…
(August 9th, 2018) – Ubisoft has confirmed that one of the earliest games announced for the Nintendo Switch, the winter action sports title Steep, has ended development on the port. Here is Ubisoft’s official statement on Steep: The Steep team is wholly dedicated to supporting the live game, and made the decision to stop Steep development on…
Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Aug 01, 2018 No. of Players: 1 player Category: Action, Arcade, Racing Publisher: Sometimes You Developer: Sometimes You What would one’s response be if an alien attack descended onto their town and brought with it anarchy, rioters, and sheer mayhem? I, for one, would welcome our new alien overlords with open arms. Others,…
Mild Violence Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Jul 27, 2018 No. of Players: 1 player Category: Action, Puzzle, First Person, Adventure Publisher: tinyBuild Games Everyone has had at one point in time horrible neighbors. Maybe they were loud and obnoxious, or they never waved back when you waved at them. Or maybe, just maybe they kidnapped and/or locked someone in a basement while you…
The Toronto, Canada music scene is by far one of the most vibrant and vivacious locales of the modern age- and it is often vastly overlooked. , from indie rock’s most famous earworm-makers in Alvvays to the recent explosive energy of Dear Youth, from the balls-to-the-wall bone snapping crunches of Falsifier to the terminally infectious…
(July 26th, 2018) – Post hardcore outfit Dead Lakes have revealed their new music video for their hard-hitting, raw track “Goldfire”. The new music video comes off their brand-new three-track EP Nothing Is Sacred, out now on Pale Chord Records. The EP includes the band’s equally potent and highly-lauded single “Eighteen Weeks,” accumulating close to 20k streams in two weeks…
Fantasy Violence Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: Jul 26, 2018 No. of Players: 1 player Category: Platformer, Adventure, Puzzle Publisher: Merge Games Developer: Teku Studios There is a running joke in the Ouch That Hertz! office that all my reviews and features are full of fiery hot takes. Truthfully, it is probably more like half- but that is neither here, nor there. Our current society is ready to jump…
A Cold War is defined as an intense economic, political, militaristic and ideological rivalry between two nation states that falls just short of open military conflict. Some may remember the most famous conflict of this kind- dubbed simply the Cold War- as the post-World War II rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States.…
