There were many incredible games at the Polish Games Booth at Pax West, but the one I was most fond of was Lichtspeer, developed by the incredibly talented teams at Crunching Koalas Studios and the Lichthund Team. Lichtspeer first made its appearance last year at Pax West and returning this year to usher the launch onto the Nintendo Switch, complete with a new co-op mode. For those that are unfamiliar,  Lichtspeer is an incredibly eclectic arcade- action game, where players a

Video Games have a means of changing the very expectations we can have of a genre. Mechanics can evolve in different ways and reinvent themselves altogether.  In arcade games, for example, there was a time when shooting games took place entirely as side-scrollers, such as Contra. Today, shooters are fully 3D, feature movie-quality cinematic cutscenes, and feature a wide variety of combat options.  But, sometimes, you don’t need cutting-edge hardware to create new mechanics. S