Dmitry King – Phenixx Gaming

The First Dune Trailer Finally Dropped

Dmitry King — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:00:19 +0000

Hi, everyone. I’m a fake geek. I’ve never read Dune. As I understand it (read: as I know from Wikipedia), Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel from the mind of Frank Herbert. It’s the first installment in an entire saga, and from second-hand knowledge, I know that it has incredible, complex worldbuilding. It has worms too, apparently. I also know that the internet has been buzzing with…

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Tenet (Film) Review

Dmitry King — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:00:52 +0000

A man catches a bullet in the palm of his hand from where it lay on the table. A scientist plays a recording of it for him, backwards and forwards. Backwards: he dropped it. Forwards: he caught it. This is Tenet’s approach to time travel called inversion. It is not leaping up and down threads of time, but every action and object walking backwards or forwards along a single strand…

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Accessibility In Games Is Still A Work In Progress

Dmitry King — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:00:12 +0000

Whilst more and more groundbreaking accessibility options have been creeping into games over the years – The Last Of Us Part II has particularly put the work into making itself accessible – it continues to be a matter that needs attention. I mean, it’s 2020 and we’re still dealing with a nightmare plague of tiny fonts in games. When we talk about accessibility in games, too often we see…

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The Sims 4: Journey To Batuu’s Reveal Brings Mixed Feelings

Dmitry King — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:00:21 +0000

The Sims 4 releases content fairly regularly, which is pretty good for a game that, having released originally in 2014, is now in its sixth year of running. Full disclaimer, constant reader: I have every single The Sims 4 pack, except for Eco Lifestyle and Nifty Knitting, and the only reason I don’t have those is that I’ve been strapped for cash lately. Nonetheless, over six years…

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Baldur’s Gate III Coming To Early Access This September

Dmitry King — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:00:56 +0000

Having watched their previous tentative August release date all but sail past, Larian Studios have now officially announced when Baldur’s Gate III will be accessible to the players: September 30th, 2020. Not bad, since the announcement for it only dropped during E3 2019. That said, the game is releasing in Early Access rather than a full release, so expect bugs and bumps galore as the developers…

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Carrion (Nintendo Switch) Review

Dmitry King — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:00:09 +0000

Glory and gore go hand in hand as you take up the mantle of a tentacled biomass in the recently released Carrion. It is a self-described ‘reverse horror’ game, and it’s your job, as the monster, to slime and slap your way through every area in-game in a fresh, bloody take on the metroidvania genre. You get to eat people! You get to fling them around at the end of a tentacle, slap them off walls…

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Another Executive Walks Away From Ubisoft

Dmitry King — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:00:49 +0000

The continuing Ubisoft abuse scandal has now seen another executive walk away from the global company, seemingly with little to no consequence. Tommy François, one of the Vice Presidents in Ubisoft’s Editorial department, had been previously put on leave in June following multiple claims of misconduct and pending an investigation. On August 3rd, it was confirmed to Gameindustry.biz that he had…

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Let’s Keep Talking About Ubisoft

Dmitry King — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Ubisoft has a lot going on at the moment, huh? We’re coming to the end of a console generation, which means every company in the games industry is scrambling to produce new content worthy of the next generation. With that worldwide plague causing just about every public event ever to be cancelled, companies have also had to scramble to find new ways to promote themselves and their material.

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Kentucky Route Zero: Act I (PC) Review

Dmitry King — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:00:39 +0000

Bugs chirp as a truck rolls into a darkened gas station. The name, Equus Oils, is silhouetted against a twilight sky. The sun is heavy and swollen as it lowers, casting an incongruous darkness in the foreground. A man gets out of the truck with his dog. The truck rumbles persistently. Traffic rushes by in the distance. Prompts to click a few objects come up. Click the dog. “An old dog in a straw…

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Keen – One Girl Army (Nintendo Switch) Review

Dmitry King — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:00:22 +0000

Keen – One Girl Army is a neon-bright game with charming visuals and puzzles that are sure to make you take a deep breath, say, “I’ll just try again later” and angrily shove your Switch in your bag. That is to say: I really enjoyed my time with Keen – One Girl Army. It’s from developer Cat Nigiri, who’ve previously been responsible for titles such as Necrosphere and have been developing a variety…

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