Khee Hoon Chan

Vice • 14th October 2021

A Decade Later, 'Alan Wake Remastered' Remains a Gripping Thriller

Despite a lead who’s prone to dramatic displays, this remaster of Alan Wake looks set to be a classic that will reach a new audience.

The Indie Game Website • 30th September 2021

In Sound Mind Review

There is an inordinate number of telephones in In Sound Mind—along dingy, winding corridors, in abandoned shopping malls, and within dilapidated offices.

History Hit • 23rd September 2021

The History That Parallels Fallout’s Bottle Cap Currency

In Fallout: New Vegas, the player is assigned the seemingly peripheral task of destroying a bottle cap press machine, located at the headquarters of soda brand Sunset Sarsaparilla.

The Indie Game Website • 20th September 2021

Dream Cycle (Early Access) Review

Dream Cycle verges on the earlier, lofty promises of the much maligned space survival game No Man’s Sky; it boasts of an infinite adventure, stating that “new realms will become available” with regular updates, along with “new biomes, additional story chapters, weapons, enemies, skills and powers”.

Rock Paper Shotgun • 16th September 2021

Gamedec review: a great cyberpunk concept undone by a bloated script

Gamedec has brilliant ideas for subverting the banal cyberpunk formula, but these were weighed down by attempts to buttress its tale with jargon, which makes the journey more bewildering than engaging.

Edge Magazine • 16th September 2021

HYPE: A Perfect Day

Impressions of Chinese indie game, A Perfect Day, for Edge Issue 363.

TheSixthAxis • 27th August 2021

Twelve Minutes Review

Twelve Minutes can’t seem to rise above its film influences, as it grinds to an unsatisfying, disconcerting halt.

The Indie Game Website • 25th August 2021

Death Trash Review (Early Access)

Death Trash shows us that our insatiable hunger makes us the biggest threat, even as the world is in the throes of death.

Edge Magazine • 18th August 2021

State Of The Art

Event coverage of Virtual Realms, for Edge Magazine, Issue 362

The Indie Game Website • 29th July 2021

The Ascent Review

The Ascent is mostly a mindless, violent jaunt through a meticulously rendered cyberpunk city; what little portrayal of the themes of depravity and inequality are merely set-dressing for the game.

GamesIndustry.biz • 8th July 2021

How China's political influence is changing game development

How does China's changing political influence affect the developers in the surrounding countries, particularly for Taiwanese and Hong Kong studios? I spoke to a few studios to find out.

The Indie Game Website • 11th June 2021

Chicory: A Colorful Tale Review

Chicory isn’t about convincing us that we are all virtuosos underneath our layers of self-doubt. Instead, it prefers to impart the more audacious claim: that we—and whatever we’ve crafted—ultimately matter, even if we feel immeasurably incompetent or broken.

The Indie Game Website • 7th June 2021

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs Review

For a game that’s predominantly moulded in the surreal humor of the internet, I wasn’t expecting to be swept away by all these feels.

The Indie Game Website • 24th May 2021

Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield Review

Never Yield’s strength is in replicating the rhythmic flow of funk. It’s one that pulsates intently throughout the experience, and is a beautifully composed choreography of movement and music.

Bullet Points Monthlly • 30th April 2021

War Machine

Outriders is a more mechanical piece of videogame machinery than most shooters―an automaton that’s designed to perform specific functions for a defined goal.

Edge Magazine • 28th April 2021

Little Shop of Horror

Bruised but not beaten, Red Candle Games has found a home for Devotion: its own web store.

The Indie Game Website • 21st April 2021

Don’t Forget Me Review

The ambiguity of these operations—as well as the complex, unknowable conundrums of free will and morality—is the pulsating heart of Don't Forget Me. It isn’t here to draw lines on the spectrum of morality, but illustrate the importance of asking the right questions, which is just as crucial as seeking answers that may never be found.

The Indie Game Website • 12th April 2021

Say No! More review

If Say No! More is a rallying call for anxiety-wrecked individuals who don’t know how to say no, it’s an amusing one, even if it’s not always memorable.

Vice • 20th March 2021

Tracing the Sprawling Roots of Flash Preservation

Communities are working to salvage as much Flash content as possible—even possibly bringing the Flash player back to the web.

The Sixth Axis • 11th March 2021

Littlewood Review

LIttlewood thrives in the soothing, meditative loop of its routines--from harvesting fruits to mining precious stones from ores.