• Video game music and creativity with Miguel Hasson

    Video game music and creativity with Miguel Hasson

    We speak with the developer of metroidvania 9 Years of Shadows, Miguel Hasson, about creativity and video game music.


  • Stray’s ending made a dog’s dinner out of a good game

    Stray’s ending made a dog’s dinner out of a good game

    Stray was always going to be a cult hit. A game about a cat going on a wild adventure in a dystopian city full of robots? I’m in. We’re all in. But, after my 8-ish hours with the game, guiding the cute kitty out of danger, the credits rolled – and I was less than…


  • Rising from the gutter – interview with Danny Hayes about CHANGE

    Rising from the gutter – interview with Danny Hayes about CHANGE

    Resisting change is futile. Change happens, whether you’re prepared for it or not. Some changes will completely turn your existence upside down, dragging you away from the place where you started. Others work in more subtle ways, making you realize the distance they brought to your life only years after they happened. And there’s change…


  • Our favorite Steam Next Fest demos of 2023

    Our favorite Steam Next Fest demos of 2023

    Is it that time of the year already? We can sit back and try a bunch of demos, while hurrying before the Next Fest is over? Indeed it is, our fellow readers, but now that the hubbub is over, sit down along with us and we’ll tell you all about our favorite Steam next fest…


  • Splatoon 3 shows why it’s Nintendo’s best series ever

    Splatoon 3 shows why it’s Nintendo’s best series ever

    If you’ve been playing video games for any length of time, then you’ll know Nintendo has brought us some of the best experiences out there, like Mario, Zelda, Metroid Prime, and more. But, Splatoon 3 adds a lot of new features to the squid game and is a landmark moment, proving why it’s Nintendo’s best…


  • The most anticipated RPGs of 2023

    The most anticipated RPGs of 2023

    Now that 2023 has officially entered the chat, has the thought of what RPGs are releasing in 2023 crossed your mind? If it did (and even if it didn’t), why don’t you sit back and relax as we got a nice smorgasbord of RPG goodness between indie and AAA of what to look forward to…


  • Best games of 2022 – the Voxel Smash awards

    Best games of 2022 – the Voxel Smash awards

    It’s the end of 2022, innit? It has been quite an interesting year for the industry, which seems to have picked up again after the pandemic and while many games have been postponed to 2023, we got a massive hit of AAA titles and indie surprises. These are the Voxel Smash’ staff picks for the…


  • The websites that are saving gaming history

    The websites that are saving gaming history

    Gaming history is a fascinating topic, despite the media being relatively recent. Surely, we can trace the origins of videogames even further back than the 70s, but that would be not much use. Thus, these are events that took place around thirty or forty years ago, so indeed relatively recent, especially compared to literature or…


  • Warhammer 40K Darktide is not ready for prime time

    Warhammer 40K Darktide is not ready for prime time

    How was your weekend? Mine was great, thanks for asking. Most of it was spent slaying the hordes of Chaos in the bowels of Tertium, as I got to try out the closed beta test of Warhammer 40K: Darktide. My honest reaction? If what I played is the current build of the game—not an older,…