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Rougelikes

This is the look of a more traditional rougelike, challenging, punishing and fun.

We love the genre all the same, and whether you’re playing the original Rogue title that spawned the genre, or digging into a little Spelunky before it sends you back to Mario or the PartyPoker site, tears in your eyes, the desire for a reasonable difficulty level strong within you, it’s arguably made us all value the “lives” concept in videogames.

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Max Payne 3.

Back to being ugly, Max's new incarnation is older and even more distressed.

It’s strange to think that it is now eleven years since I first played Max Payne. There was something special about the Remedy developed title, a noir story met an irreverent sense of humour that could only be achieved from an outsiders’ perspective (in this case Finnish).

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